It’s funny.
As part of our research for a recently completed brand identity design (which we haven’t posted about yet, but will soon), Design Kompany went on the World Wide Web to end up in Seattle.
We found this book by University of Washington’s visual communication design program chair Karen Cheng.
Her book, Designing Type, came in really handy as we began exploring some of the most classic of typefaces to come up with a smart, clean and established look and feel for a US company.
Interested in this book?
You can read part of it on Google’s reader thing here.
I absolutely love this book, it has helped me tremendously with designing typefaces and has helped to get them to a more professional level.
I really can’t say enough about this book, defiantly worth it.
Great! Glad you like it, too. How did you get into designing typefaces? That sounds ambitious. Curious.
Correction to my earlier comment:
defiantlydefinitely worth it.I started getting into typeface design about a year ago when I was working on a poster for an event in Russia. The fonts available in russian were the stereotypical blocky serif style that didn’t reflect modern Russian design so I decided to build my own. Since then I have slowly made my way from display fonts to body copy style typefaces.
Very cool. Where can we see them?
I have them posted up on my site:
http://dougsheets.com/
Here’s a direct link:
http://dougsheets.com/portfolio/typography/typeface-design/
Let me know what you think.
-d.s.