Typography Videos + Designers

In the video of Neville Body, he talked about many designers involved with Fuse. Below are six of them that I've decided to research a little bit. 

BARRY DECK:
Barry is a brand experience professional who has struggled with the imaginary divide between creative and account leadership. He has an MFA in visual communication from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in visual communication from Northern Illinois University. Very much aware of the recent changes in how consumers make decision and consumers' effect on business, he collaborates with others to understand business problems, and he delivers value by finding different ways to drive results from a company’s core outward, in product development, innovation, customer experience, and marketing.

RICK VERMEULEN:

Rick Vermeulen studied graphic design at the Rotterdam Academy and graduated in 1972. In 1975, he worked for the publisher Bert Bakker and was a participant in Rotterdam’s Graphic Workshop. Rotterdam's Graphic Workshop was where designers and artists produced material for cultural organizations in the city and events. From 1978-82, Vermeulen was an editor of Hard Werken magazine,. In recent years, Vermeulen has designed two typefaces for Fuse. He collaborates with Inizio and works on freelance projects for publishing and other clients.

Tibor Kalman:

Kalman was an American graphic designer of Hungarian origin. He is very well known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine. Kalman was born in Budapestand became a U.S. resident in 1956. He later attended NYU, dropping out after one year of Journalism classes. In the 1970s Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. He later became the supervisor of their in-house design department. In 1979 Kalman, Carol Bokuniewicz, and Liz Trovato started the design firm M & Co., which did corporate work for such diverse clients as the Limited Corporation, the music group Talking Heads, and Restaurant Florent in New York City's Meatpacking District. Kalman also worked as creative director of Interview magazine in the early 1990s.

PAUL ELLIMAN:

Paul is an artist and designer based in London. His work combines an interest in typography and the human voice, often referring to forms of audio signage that mediate a relationship between both. His typeface Found Fount (aka Bits) is an ongoing collection of found ‘typography’ drawn from objects and industrial debris in which no letter-form is repeated. Elliman's work has addressed the instrumentalist of the human voice as a kind of typography, engaging the voice in many of its social and technological guises, as well as imitating other languages and sounds of the city included the non-verbal messages of emergency vehicle sirens, radio transmissions and the muted acoustics of architectural space.

CORNEL WINDLIN:

After graduating from Schule für Gestaltung Luzern, Cornel Windlin moved to London in 1988 to work for Neville Brody and later became art editor for THE FACE magazine. In 1993 he returned to his native Switzerland and started his own design practice in Zurich. He has lectured in the US, England, Germany, Austria, Israel and Switzerland. He currently works as a designer/art director in both Zurich and London for a number of clients in both cultural and commercial fields. Cornel Windlin started creating typefaces primarily for use in his own work while still at art school. Together with Stephan Müller, he formed the digital font foundry LINETO to distribute his fonts and those of an illustruous circle of friends. Windlin has created corporate typefaces for clients as diverse as Mitsubishi cars or the Herzefeld Memorial Trust, or custom fonts for projects at Kunsthaus Zurich, Tate museums as well as various editorial projects.

TOBIAS FRERE-JONES:

Tobias is an American designer who works in New York City with fellow type designer Jonathan Hoefler. Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world's foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.

In the video This video explores the whole history of typefaces. The first time I watched it, it was a lot of information at once and definitely hard to grasp. After watching it again, I was able to pick up more information. For instance, I learned the following: most typefaces were developed and then edited later for legibility reasons and  during the second industrial revolution, there a need for large typefaces for posters and billboards. That is where Slab serif came into the picture. Slab serifs are usually used for titles. Another thing that's completely mind blowing is how the computer in this day and age changed the typography world. Now anyone can create their own typeface.