Spiekermann quote idea
"A typographic designer starts from the word up; a graphic designer starts from the picture down"
- Erik Spiekermann
This first effort was a bit big and obnoxious so I went back to the drawing board
36 DOT - V
V was fairly set in stone with Venetian or Vitra written down as possibilities. Vitra was supposed to represent Bauhaus era chairs because I went to the Vitra design museum in Switzerland and they had a lot of lovely modernism, however, upon further I found that Vitra itself is only inspired by Bauhaus era and hold a large archive of chairs for inspiration and because the founders were collectors. Therefore it was back to Venetian type, I know I touched on this field a little earlier on in the series as I went for serif humanism for my H but Venetian typography refers more especially to the renaissance perspective from one of its birthplaces Venice. Also known as Antiqua, Venetian spring up in the late 1400s, replacing blackletter as a standardised typestyle that imitated handwriting. It was of uniform thickness and thus appeared quite dark on paper. The humanist writing of Italian scholars of the Renaissance served as a model for what is now known as the Venetian style. Nicolas ...
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