How To Select the Right Type for Any Job
One of the most important, and some would say the most challenging aspect of graphic design, is selecting the appropriate typeface(s). Whether it be for text, display, or [...]
Ilene Strizver
Ilene Strizver, founder of The Type Studio, is a typographic consultant, designer, writer and educator specializing in all aspects of visual communication, from the aesthetic to the technical. Her book, Type Rules! The designer’s guide to professional typography, 4th edition, has received numerous accolades from the type and design community.
Articles by Ilene Strizver
10 Suggestions for Success with Type – and Life!
The time has come to say adieu to my monthly TypeTalk column. That doesn’t mean this is the absolute end, but I will transition from being a regular columnist (which I [...]
Love Letters by Tony Di Spigna
I was lucky enough to come of age, typographically speaking, in the 70s – an era that saw many exceptional creatives who literally changed the world of type and design. [...]
Gifts for (or from) Type Lovers
Gift giving season is always just around the corner, and comes several times a year for many of us if you include birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, in addition to the [...]
Richard Deon Resurrects Ben Franklin: 13 Impressions of Virtue
Benjamin Franklin, by Joseph Duplessis, 1778. The name Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) brings to mind one of our Founding Fathers who helped draft both the United States [...]
The Culinary Illustrations of Alice & Martin Provensen
The actual cover of the $2 Goodwill book that caught my eye. From time to time I am asked how I come up with topics to write about. After over almost 300 articles for [...]
Designing A Logo for Every Size & Usage
Designing a typographic logo, or word mark, isn’t as simple as coming up with one, single solution. Although a logo’s primary usage may well be at a relatively fixed [...]
Typographic Checklist for Top Notch Typography
One of the challenges of setting type, a major component of most design work, is getting all of the details just right. These seemingly small yet important aspects of setting [...]
Introducing Helvetica Now: A Reinvented Classic
Think there are enough versions of Helvetica? Well, think again, because here comes one more. Monotype has recently released Helvetica Now, the first redesign in 35 years of [...]
The Illustrious (& Illustrative) World of Cipe Pineles
Cipe Pineles Cipe Pineles (1908 – 1991) was a very influential albeit unsung graphic designer of the 1930s. She is credited with blending fine art and lively, [...]
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