Blind Text Generator

Welcome to the Dummy Text Generator!

This handy tool helps you create dummy text for all your layout needs.

Dummy text: Its function as a filler or as a tool for comparing the visual impression of different typefaces

Dummy text is text that is used in the publishing industry or by web designers to occupy the space which will later be filled with 'real' content. This is required when, for example, the final text is not yet available. Dummy text is also known as 'fill text'. It is said that song composers of the past used dummy texts as lyrics when writing melodies in order to have a 'ready-made' text to sing with the melody. Dummy texts have been in use by typesetters since the 16th century.

Type Poster Inspiration

some inspiration from Experimental Jetset (for more check out the experimental jetset link in the resources link list to the right... or just click here)


and ork posters:

Third Assignment: Type Poster Series

Here is the assignment for next week, 11/2:

Create 4 (18"x24") posters related to your topic

TYPE ONLY
B&W

Use typography to
a) inform,
b) create interest,
c) educate,
d) advertise or
e) make folks notice your topic.
Choose one objective, not all of the above.
Whatever is most appropriate to your topic.

Be sure to think about how you want it to be perceived - what do you want people to think/feel after seeing your poster?

Lubalin Now

The inaugural exhibition in the newly re-located
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography.

Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is best known for his wildly illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact.

On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, the installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that spotlight an emerging trend toward expressive lettering and typography.

Original sketches, magazines, logotypes, and posters selected from the Lubalin Center Archive will illuminate Lubalin’s influence on contemporary graphic design.

Opening Reception

Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6 – 8pm
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square Gallery [ MAP ]
This event is free and open to the public.

Exhibition On View

November 5, 2009 – December 8, 2009

Gallery Hours

Monday–Thursdays 12–7 pm, Saturday 12–5 pm
Closed Fridays and Sundays
Closed November 26, 2009–November 29, 2009

http://lubalincenter.cooper.edu/

Another Beautiful Spread from Priest + Grace

one can dream...

The Type Is Right

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MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2009

MEMBER SERIES: THE TYPE IS RIGHT

Are you crazy for Courier? Gonzo for Garamond? Mad for Meta? Does your quick brown fox jump over your lazy dog? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then come on down to The Type is Right, AIGA/NY’s first-ever typographic game show at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Join Roger Black, Paul Carlos, Andy Clymer, Louise Fili, Allan Haley, Jonathan Hoefler, Chester Jenkins, Ellen Lupton, Charlie Nix, Paula Scher, Patrick Seymour, Sara Soskolne and mystery guests for 3 rounds of typographic trivia and general hilarity as teams of three go head-to-head with other font fetishists for the honor of being AIGA/NY All-Borough Type Champions. With a special cameo appearance by Paul Shaw, The Type is Right’s own special judge and final word on font-related discrepancies.

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Priest + Grace

magazine spreads from Priest + Grace

Daily Drop Cap

The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations. Enjoy!

October 15

October 14

More Type Inspiration

Herb Lubalin


type specimen pages




other usages of type

Type Specimen Student Work

A couple examples of student type books:

sarah macreading:


chris rogers:

NYT: Shopping with Abbott Miller

Just for fun. This was the first post in today's UrbanEye:

By MELENA RYZIK

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Attention font nerds: you probably already knew this, but typography and other graphic design make for cool house stuff. Attention everyone else: follow the lead of Abbott Miller, a partner at the design firm Pentagram. He liked the Alexander Girard bedding at Urban Outfitters, the Fable Game animal puzzle at Kid O, and the selections at Spring Design & Art, including an arrow hanger, a poster of found-object letters, and a Google news pillow. The year’s most searched-for terms, memorialized on your couch: now you’re definitely a nerd.

All Things Typorgaphic 10/09

Typography Saving time!

-- TypeTalk: You ask, we answer

-- Continuing Studies in Typography

-- Know your type: Gill Sans

-- Can tell Arial from Helvetica?

-- Gourmet Typography STIMULUS Discount

-- The Type Studio now on Twitter

see the full post here

FontCase

Another font manager program:

An elegant, award-winning font manager for the Mac. Available exclusively from FontShop.

Mac OS X comes with basic font management, but anyone with more than a few fonts needs a professional app to preview, organize, and activate fonts in their growing collection. We recommend FontCase. Pieter Omvlee and Laurent Baumann won an Apple Design Award this year for his app's elegant UI backed by a powerful tagging system to help you manage fonts in an intuitive way. If you've used iPhoto or iTunes you'll be instantly familiar with the FontCase interface. See below for visual examples of FontCase at work, or download the full-featured demo and try it for yourself. Available for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and above.

About Font Managers

What is a font manager? Do I really need to buy one, since my Mac came with Font Book?
check it out...

*via All Things Typographic 4/09*

Type Specimen Examples

Look at these examples of type specimens done by Ellen Lupton's students:
http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/teachers/type_spec_project.htm

More examples:

Second Assignment

NYT Exercise (for topic-clarifying)

1) Go to the nytimes website and do a search for your topic.

2) Select 10 articles (preferably within a short time span) & read.

3) Respond (either with a comment, an image, whatever). The idea being that this might give you a narrower, more specific focus for your topic.

next:

Type specimen book (16-page signature):

1) Pick 12 typefaces:
3 serif display
3 sans serif display
3 serif text
3 sans serif text

2) Design a 16-page type specimen book. Use text from something relating to your topic. Print to size,bound and bring to class. Take a look at the David Berlow specimen pdf.

more examples to follow.

KNOPF: THEN AND NOW

oh wow. I am so getting tickets to this.

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WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2009

KNOPF: THEN AND NOW

In the late 1980s, the Alfred A. Knopf design group redefined the art of American book packaging. Two decades later, the department continues to set the bar for the trade publishing industry. Knopf: Then and Now brings the legendary team of Carol Devine Carson, Barbara de Wilde, Archie Ferguson, and Chip Kidd together on stage for the first time. The quartet will give a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of their most daring cover designs, discuss the process of collaboration, and describe the challenges affecting book jacket design today.

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