Neu Alphabet
When I visited the Design Museum in London to listen to GraphicDesign&’s talk in Mid April, I had the chance to poke my nose around the museum. The retrospective exhibition of the legendary Dutch designer Wim Crouwel was on. In the foyer they had a sample of the Neu Alphabet rug on display. It was...
I tawt I taw a tnake in Comic Sans Euro!
Was it my tired eyes, or the funny little joke of Vincent Connare’s about the Euro sign still hiding somewhere in the font file? The ghost of the wicked snake was, strangely enough, visible in a couple of screen versions of the font. I wonder why? I was very curious about the story after I...
Angus Hyland’s Lecture on Symbols
Pentagram partner and graphic designer Angus Hyland gave a brilliant short talk on symbols. He picked some well known trademarks and logos from the collective archives of our everyday life and compared the associations as well as the implications we attach to these trademarks. He also discussed how they developed and were transformed from their...
