About Typography

Resources

Thinking with type - http://www.papress.com/other/thinkingwithtype/index.html

• typography resources
• more type resources
• typography focused websites

• http://www.flywebmaster.com/webdesign/tips/good_bad.php
• http://arbent.net/blog/talking-typography-part-2-good-type-gone-bad-tutorials-and-tools
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/01/29/typography-readability-legibility-part-2/
• http://designreviver.com/inspiration/18-typography-focused-designs-2/
• http://www.ocularharmony.com/best-typography-resources/

Top Ten Web Typography Sins

Typography videos

video playlist - typography

• a lesson in typography 2 mins
• Typefaces: An Animated Infographic Guide 2 mins

• video playlist - typographybasics of typography 6 min
• typography technology    5.21 mins 
• Gutenberg and impact of printing press  4.21 mins
• linotype      1.5mins
• anatomy of type  5.27 mins
• font design  3.5 mins 
• Developing Typefaces for the Xbox 360 and Other Devices   57 mins
• how typography impacts design     16 mins
• Talking fonts with typeface designer, Steve Matteson  6 mins

FONTS

• battleship helvetica 30 sec
• Baskerville 1.2 mins
• cooper black  1.4 mins
• Akzidenz Grotesk 2.25 mins
•  clearview and highways  3.4 mins
• papyrus the other hated font  4 mins
•  helvetica & comic sans  musical   3 mins
• font conference    3mins
• voice of fonts   1min

HELVETICA THE MOVIE

• World's Greatest Documentaries - Helvetica - Promo   1 min
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 helvetica trailer pbs  2 mins
• helvetica  movie trailer 4.5 mins
• helvetica movie beginning 1.2 mins
• helvetica film clip    2 mins 
• HermannZapf Helvetica
• Massimo Vignelli short exhort from film  4.5
• Wim Crouwel movie clip  2mins
• helvectica clip - david  carson 4 mins
• Helvetica documentary clip - Erik Spiekermann   2.3 mins
• helvetica in advertising   2 mins
• film clip 4  pbs  1.27
• conversation with film makers 7.5mins
• helvetica is dead - hipsterhood 26 seconds
• helvetica vs arial fight  1,5 mins
• font fight  3 mins
• 50 years of helvetica   2 mins
•  mike parker godfather of helvetica  1.55 mins 
• parker godfather of helvetica 5 mins 

• Helvetica - elegant  3.5 mins 
• How To Know The Fonts To Never Use  2.5 mins

DESIGNERS

• David Carson     3.5 mins
• eric gill    1.22 mins

slideshare 

GRIDS

• video playlist - about grids
• misconcepts about grids
• grid - effective design approach
• Examples of Grid-based design
• grid examples-websites and blogs
• grid system and websites
• grid resources
• more grid resources

Free fonts

• free fonts
• dafont
• creamundo

Type history websites:

• http://webdesignerwall.com/general/brief-history-of-western-typography
• http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/06/type-terminology-humanist-2/
• http://www.pointlessart.com/education/loyalist/typetalk/garamond/history.html
• http://abc.planet-typography.com/
• http://www.rsub.com/typographic/
• http://www.dafont.com/themes.php

Poster and history websites:

• Design history http://www.designhistory.org/posters.html
• Design history - POSTERS
•  international poster history
• history - posters
•  MOVIE POSTERS http://onesheetdesign.com/starship_troopers.html
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/what_is_graphic_design_poster_competition/
• http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/
  
  
  
• http://swissposters.library.cmu.edu/Swiss/home.html
• polish poster history
• russian posters
• Soviet Retro Posters
• Propaganda Posters
• OPERA POSTERS**
• VINTAGE POSTERS**