TYPESTACHES
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by Tim Sumner
A project to help give personalities to typefaces, I think it works.

A project to help give personalities to typefaces, I think it works.
A few film posters that have been redesigned for a road show in America. Can’t help but see the huge Saul Bass influence throughout.

Manchester-based Dorothy has created a poster to promote Tate Liverpool’s current exhibition, Picasso: Peace and Freedom, which runs until August 30. The poster features a bespoke font designed specially for the exhibition entitled Picasso ‘68
Here we feature a few images from ‘Graphic Design – with special reference to Lettering, Typography & illustration’ First published in 1954 by Routledge & Kegan Paul – London.
Decorative Alphabet for Baynardn Press – Barnett Freedman
Book Jacket for Faber & Faber – Barnett Freedman
Wood Engraving – Eric Gill
Shell Petrolium Company – Eric Gill
Catalogue Cover for The Paris exhibition of 1939 – Eric Ravilious
Decorative engravings for The Double Crown Company – Eric Ravilious
Poster for London Passenger Transport Board – Edward Bawden

An effective solution to give awareness of a great problem, found at Pentagram.