Eric Gill
Mark Boulten a graphic designer who had Gill Sans as 'Typeface of the Month' said,"Gill Sans was designed by Eric Gill in the 1920’s and issued by Monotype in 1928 to 1930. Eric Gill studied under the calligrapher and stonemason, Edward Johnston, at the Central School in London so therefore it comes as no surprise that Gill Sans is based on his teachers typeface for London Underground, Johnston Underground."
Image from "http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/typeface-of-the-month-gill-sans"
| "The display font is Gill Sans, a classic and elegant sans serif font. Gill designed several excellent fonts, which are widely available. In addition to the display font at this website, I use Gill sans a few places in Enivisioning Information and in Visual Explanations." -- Edward Tufte, April 19, 2002 |
Image from"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GillSansEG.svg"
Gill Sans different typefaces:
Images from"http://www.prepressure.com/fonts/interesting/gill_sans"
Gills Sans - Light
Gills Sans - Regular
Gills Sans - Italics
Gills Sans Bold
www.frankie.bz/blog/ says "Gill Sans is for sure one of the most used fonts for corporate design in the fashion industry. When a brand claims elegance and self confidence this font is a sure shot."
Such a clean, elegant font that really suits the business/fashion industries as it's such as slender and professional font. A real good font also for the web as it's concise and very easy to read and not monotonous on the eyes.
Wolfgang Weingart
"It was he who ignited the spark of ‘typographic anarchy’ that exploded on the verge of the nineteen nineties." --Keith Tam.
Weingart began teaching at the Basel School of Design, where he was appointed as an instructor of typography by Armin Hoffmann in 1963. He came up with a new approach to typography that put an influence on the development of much of graphic design in the 1990s.
He had a big influence on teaching 'Swiss Typography' which was the use of grid systems to the logical disposition of type and images on the page in an asymmetric layout, along with the use of Sanserif typefaces.
One of his most common pieces of work can be seen below:
Image from: http://www.posterpage.ch/div/news07/n070317a.htm
The next is of his book, 'Weingart - My Way to Typography'. This book gives a view of the influences that have affected the development in his work as both a Typographer and Designer.
"For the first time readers will see an overview of his work - the author having painstakingly recreated old projects, including the contents of his sketchbooks from the past forty years." --http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119165.Wolfgang_Weingart
Saul Bass
When researching about different typographers I came across Saul Bass. I actually never heard of him before but when I gathered more information on him I came to like his work. There is something about his font that has a cheerful side to it. It is more like a children's font as it looks groovy and letters don't all look equal in size some are greaer than others. Below is a poster that Bass created for a 1957 film called "Loved in the afternoon".
Image courtesy of Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Love_in_the_afternoon_(1957)_-_movie_poster.jpg
The font is known as "Hitchcock" is said to be a rough, hand cut style that stereotypes the work of Bass. I ten learnt how "in fact, type designer Nick Shinn notes that Bass didn’t do the actual lettering and veteran Robert Trogman adds that Dave Nagata did most of the drawings."
http://typographica.org/2007/on-typography/saul-bass-website-and-hitchcock-font-are-back/
It all began to get a bit confusing as I found out from the website above how "Hitchcock was created by designer Matt Terich as an homage to the iconic lettering that so often appeared in Bass’ title work." Here is the font Hitchcock created by Matt Terich:
Image courtesy of http://typographica.org/2007/on-typography/saul-bass-website-and-hitchcock-font-are-back/
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