Typophile - Corporate initiated typeface designs - Comments

Yes, this is what i meant.

David R — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:50:01 -0800

Yes, this is what i meant. but i was tired. sorry :-)

David, I think you meant

Stephen Coles — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:40:33 -0800

David, I think you meant http://www.typophage.com/en/fontes-exclusives/view

Lacoste Sans (aka TheSans)?

A year after the last post,

David R — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:58:16 -0800

A year after the last post, I’d like to add the designs of Christophe Badani, who designed numerous corporate types, including Lacoste Sans (www.letypophage.com). And let’s not forget Ikea Sans (aka Futura) and Ikea Serif (aka Century Schoolbook). And let’s not forget Cplus, the corporate type of Canal + cable channel (aka Futura).

Talking of

sii — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:28:04 -0700

Talking of Nokia...

http://www.wibree.com/press/

...wonder what font the new wibree (great name!) logo is based on? Not one of Erik’s me thinks. I suppose Nokie thought competing technologies were getting a little bit blue in the tooth.

>And anything covering the

sii — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:16:15 -0700

>And anything covering the designs of the Nokia and Glasgow faces

Nokia Sans
http://www.spiekermann.com/iblog/C61720386/E20051016181337/index.html

The article as text would be

hrant — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:03:17 -0700

The article as text would be super.

And what about that wonderful font... compendium ;-) as a PDF?
Pretty please with diacritics on it?

hhp

I would very much that

Martin LAllier — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:52:09 -0700

I would very much that article, thx!

And anything covering the designs of the Nokia and Glasgow faces - I already have and much enjoyed the DB fonts presentation PDF.

Count me in.

brampitoyo — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:51:12 -0700

Count me in.

“If anybody is interested,

dezcom — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 04:37:08 -0700

“If anybody is interested, I can supply that article as a text file.”

I would be interested Erik.

ChrisL

Interesting article by Erik

eriks — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 03:10:03 -0700

Interesting article by Erik Spiekermann

I attach a jpeg with showings of most faces I designed over the years. The fonts for corporations were usually designed by teams, and some of my collaborators were Lucas de Groot, Ole Schäfer, Albert Pinggera, Henning Krause, Erik van Blokland, Just van Rossum, Conor Mangat and Christian Schwartz. I know I’ve left some faces off the list, as I can never remember all of them and as we shouldn’t get too much credit for adaptions like Univers for Audi Sans, Frutiger Condensed for FF Transit or Futura for VW Headline. And I just noticed that I left out The Economist, so I’ll have a think, try and find the original file and post an updated spiekertypes image soon.

If anybody is interested, I can supply that article as a text file.

Interesting article by Erik

Martin LAllier — Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:52:11 -0700

Interesting article by Erik Spiekermann on Corporate typography in “An A-Z of type designers” by Neil Macmillan. Covers the basic rationale behind the function of typography as a tool for branding - message and identity all at once.

http://www.amazon.com/-Z-Type-Designers-Neil-Macmillan/dp/0300111517/sr=...

Other interesting articles by type designers. The rest of the book is a list of designers with: fonts designed, bio. This aspect is much better covered by the Friedl, Ott & Stein book. http://www.amazon.com/Typography-Friedrich-Friedl/dp/1579120237/sr=1-1/q...

Speaking of Fell Type, I

brampitoyo — Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:08:25 -0700

Speaking of Fell Type, I love Igino Marini’s take on it in all of their flawed beauty.

> The Fell type, cut for

Maxim Zhukov — Wed, 2 Aug 2006 08:14:13 -0700

> The Fell type, cut for Bishop Fell at the Oxford University Press, late 17th century.

I thought that most of those types were not cut to the order of Dr. Fell. He bought punches and matrices in Holland and Germany in 1670 and 1672, and brought them to Oxford. The original collection was complemented by the larger sizes that were indeed custom-manufactured at his request.

Indeed, proprietary

Martin LAllier — Wed, 2 Aug 2006 03:18:45 -0700

Indeed, proprietary typefaces, seem to be the appropriate term.

The Fell type, cut for

Nick Shinn — Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:01:01 -0700

The Fell type, cut for Bishop Fell at the Oxford University Press, late 17th century.

Corporate initiated typeface designs

Martin LAllier — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:44:51 -0700

Hi all,

I’m to give a talk on corporate typefaces this Fall (2006), particularly on fonts designed exclusively for a company’s branding. I will also cover fonts designed to answer special technical needs (signage, screen, ...).

My list so far:
_ Jean-François Porchez (Mencken, Deréon, Parisine, Costa, ...)
_ Erik Spiekermann (FF, Meta, FF Info, DBahn, Nokia, ...)
_ Matthew Carter (Bell Centennial, Verdana, Georgia, ...)
_ the Clearview project
_ Nick Shinn (Richler)
_ Underware (Ulrika)
_ H&FJ (Mercury, Verlag, ...)

Any other milestones I should consider? Do you have sources of informations (www, books, magazines, ...) that would ease my research?

Thanks for any suggestions and your help!!!!!!!