Derided by typophiles as crass, “ethnic type” has a revealing taxonomy and, surprisingly, serves a purpose.
Godard inserts text and image into a variety of contexts, including, but not limited to: handwritten letters, neon signs, shop signage, book and magazine covers, collages, grafitti, posters, cinema marquees, corporate logos, the pages of comic books, advertisements, newspapers, children’s books and political pamphlets… Design » Godard’s Intertitles
Human billboards in London (and in the whole UK) are very in fashion: they have been the most economic way to advertise without paying taxes, since 200 years ago. They use the ability a body has to move (so you don’t need to buy a space), and also the communicative potentialities that the body naturally possesses. Unfortunately quite often, and it is a real paradox, human billboards moving around the city are immigrants who can’t speak English and who don’t know what they are announcing. Starting from some considerations on these human media, flesh, bones and words living passively their communicative role, Amandine Alessandra, graphic designer created a project called Wearable Lettering. These performance typefaces play with bodies which are unconscious of the message they are conveying and plus they set an estranged scene which struck our attention and we chose to show you… (via Abitare - international design magazine » Wearable lettering by Amandine Alessandra
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Derided by typophiles as crass, “ethnic type” has a revealing taxonomy and, surprisingly, serves a purpose.
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