Works by Ivan Alexandrov, 2010.
Tag Archives: Typography
Various works by the artist-typographer Sam Winston who mixes craft, statistics and typography together. The page on the top-left was designed for New York Times.
“This work consists of Phillips’s own translation of the Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Each of the 34 Cantos is accompanied by an introductory image and then three illustrations opposite the text of the poem.” —— [rest here]
Tom Phillips, Canto XXXIII: [no title] from “Dante’s Inferno”, 1983
Intaglio print, screenprint and lithograph on paper
Typographic Abstracts by Andrew Hurle, 2000.
The series below have been typeset, then reduced to create a low magnification, screen impression. They represent an extreme approximation of the ASCII figures as they have been abbreviated within a short serial edition: photo > text > screen > print. At this end of this series, the figures become completely abstract, depicting line and paragraph blocks rather than individual letter shapes.
FatFont
Specifically designed for decimal numbers whose boldness corresponds with it’s value, for use in data visualization:
The FatFonts technique is based on a new type of numeric typeface designed for visualization purposes that bridge the gap between numeric and visual representations. FatFonts are based on Arabic numerals but, unlike regular numeric typefaces, the amount of ink (dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This enables accurate reading of the numerical data while preserving an overall visual context.
Fatfonts are designed so that the amount of dark pixels in a numeral character is proportional to the number it represents … This proportionality of ink is the main property of FatFonts. It allows us to create images of data where you can read the numbers, and represent tables that can be read as images.
You can find out more about the project here
A collection of typographic portraits (2012) using one font (family) for each image. Made by Tiaré Jung, Camille Segur, Kira Campbell, Kymberly Eppich and Sarah Eno.
