TYPO magazine
On this particular project there was a lot of guidelines. We were supposed to produce a 12 page spread magazine about typography called TYPO. You could only chose one colour, including black and papercolour.
Inside the magazine it was supposed to be 4 different spreads, classic, experimental, typo as a form, and decorative. The theme of the magazine should be about the four famous designers and typographers Stefan Sagmeister, Karel Martens, Marian Bantjes and Claude Garamond. If we wanted to we could create a 5th spread about Paula Scher, making it a 14 page spread magazine.
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STEFAN SAGMEISTER
“Not all graphic design has to be made by a machine.”
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KAREL MARTENS
“Like much in life, design is making choises.”
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CLAUDE GARAMOND
“The elements of the past and the present, combine to make our future.”
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MARIAN BANTJES
“I wish that when I die I will be satisfied with all I have done in my life.”
STEFAN SAGMEISTER Stefan Sagmeister is one of the worlds most important graphic designers. Born in Austria, he now lives and works in New York. His longstanding collaborators include the AIGA and musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed. Stefan Sagmeister studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He later went to study at the Pratt Institute in New York. He began his design career at the age of 15 at “Alphorn�, an Austrian Youth magazine. In 1991 he moved to Hong Kong to work with Leo Burnett and his design group. In 1993 he returned to New York to work with Tibor Kalman. His tenure there was short lived, as Kalman soon decided to retire from the design business to edit Colors magazine for the Benetton Group. Stefan Sagmeister formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients such as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner. Sagmeister Inc. has employed designers including Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, who later formed Karlssonwilker. Solo shows on Sagmeisters work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Japan, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, and Seoul. Sagmeister teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Arts in New York and at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Every seven years Sagmeister takes a year of where he does not take work from clients, to work with personal things.
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IS MAKING CHOISES KAREL MARTENS Karel Martens was born in 1939, and he finished as a student at the Arnhem School of Art in 1961. Since then he has worked as a freelance graphic designer, specializing in typography. Karel Martens has always made free graphic work. He also works with book design and printed items, signs and typographic facades for a number of buildings. Glamour is not his style, and he prefers plain and honest techniques and materials, a feature which is always evident in his choice of paper, letter type, colour and format. Karel Martens also enjoys the confrontation between form and contents which always results in an exciting product, bearing the hallmark of quality and care. Karel Martens has taught graphic design since 1977, and has been a visiting lecturer at the graphic design department at the School of Art in Yale University since 1997. That same year he started, together with Wigger Bierma, the Typography Workshop for the postgraduate education within the ArtEZ, Arnhem.
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LIKE MUCH IN LIFE DESIGN
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CLAUDE GARAMOND Claude Garamond was born in Paris in 1490. He was a true renaissance man, contributing in typography. The font Garamond is named after him, and reading a well set Garamond text page is almost effortless, a fact which is well known to designers for over 450 years.
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orn in Paris in 1490, Garamond started his
In 1545 Garamond finally became his own publisher,
career out as an apprentice for the Parisian
featuring his own types, and including a new italic.
punch-cutter and printer, Antoine Augereau
His first book published was Pia Et Religiosa Meditatio
in 1510. Garamond and his peers found that the
of David Chambellan. He modeled his book publishing
typography industry required unique multi-talented
style after the classic works of the Venetian printers
people. This way they could produce fine books.
who catered to the absolute elites of high society.
Many of the printers during that time period were
Garamond insisted on clarity in design, generous
able to master most of the artistic and technical skills
page margins, high quality in composition, paper
of bookproduction, from type design to bookbinding.
and printing, which was always accentuated with
Claude Garamond was first to specialize in type
superb binding.
design, punch-cutting, and type-founding in Paris as a service to many famous publishers.
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Marian Bantjes Marian Bantjes was born in 1963, and she is an Canadian designer, typographer, artist, illustrator and writer. Sagmeister once called Bantjes one of the most inovative typographers working today. She has become worldfamous for her personal style of work. Bantjes started working in the field of visual communication in 1983, and her first job was as a book typesetter. She became well known as a talented graphic designer when she was a partner and senior designer at Digitopolis, where she created identity and communication designs for corporate, education and artsorganizations. In 2003 she left her firm behind to work with what she has become internationally known for. She desicribes herself as a graphic artist, working with custom type and ornament, her personal, obsessive and sometimes strange graphic work has brought her international recognition and fame as a worldclass visual designer. Bantjes is known for her detailed and lovingly precise vector art, obsessive handwork, patterning and highly ornamental style. Over the years Bantjes has been honored with numerous awards and her work is now part of the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Bantjes is frequently invited to sit on design award juries and speak at design conferences and design schools around the world. She teaches typography at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, and lives and works internationally from her base on Bowen Island off the west coast of Canada, not far from Vancouver.
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REDAKTØR: KAROLINE TYNES
GRAFISK DESIGN: KAROLINE TYNES
TEKST: WWW.WIKIPEDIA.NO
PAPIRLEVERANDØR: NORWAY DESIGNS