By David Berlow Meeting Tobias Frere-Jones can be a forgettable experience, but only if you don’t talk to him. Reserved is his natural state. But below the surface lie exceptional versatility, observational skills, and inventiveness. This all can be seen in the early typefaces he developed at Font Bureau. Gathered here, from Garage Gothic via Interstate to the Poynter and Benton series, and on to the fanciful ones, are those early families: effective, practical, timeless, unique.
Began as fallen receipts from a Brooklyn parking garage. Tobias didn’t have a car, and I never knew him to drive, so I assumed at the time he walked past the garage and found them, or walked past the garage to find them. Either way, what he found was not nearly as interesting as what he made. Began when the specifications for highway signage fell into Tobias’ hands. For some time he pored over it and we discussed the differences between signage and printage, before he began slowly designing a new family.
There were plenty of typographic diversions on the way, leading to the extensive, multifaceted series Interstate is today. Began as a well-publicized study of modern newspaper types circa 1990.
I was mystified by advice on a proper direction, but Tobias heard and saw something that took several years to become roman, italic and the first system of graded weights in response to newspaper printing issues. Those, and more, are now available in updated font formats and progressively released for web use, even after all these years. Tobias Frere-Jones was born in 1970 in New York, where he would come to appreciate the elegant and cultured, as well as the derelict and corrupt. His adolescence was divided between the galleries of Manhattan and the dockyards of Brooklyn. At fourteen he began exhibiting paintings, sculptures and photographs in New York galleries. An artist being raised in a family of writers and printers, he learned the power of written text, and naturally slipped into design of letterforms. By the time he entered Rhode Island School of Design, type design had displaced most other interests.
He graduated from the Graphic Design Department in 1992 and began full-time work for Font Bureau, where he was a Senior Designer for several years. In addition to his numerous contributions to the Font Bureau retail library and custom work, he made three fonts — Reactor, Fibonacci, Microphone — for Fuse, a journal of experimental type design. (See a full list of Tobias’ typefaces ) He joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art to teach a class in typeface design with Matthew Carter since 1996. In 1999, he left Font Bureau to return to his native New York. The Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague awarded Tobias the in 2006 to honor his unique contributions to typeface design, typography, and type education.
(Exhibition and catalog designed by the class in 2009, catalog published by.). In 2013, he received the AIGA Medal for exceptional achievements in the field of design. Feeling that experience from one style can inform new efforts in another, he aims for the widest possible range in his work. He feels equally at home with a traditional text face as with a grungy display face.
He seeks inspiration from deliberately non-typographic sources: the music of Schoenberg, the theories of Tesla and Pythagoras, and a row of shopping carts have all provided the initial spark. When asked if the world really needs any more typefaces, he replied: “The day we stop needing new type will be the same day that we stop needing new stories and new songs.”. Upon leaving Font Bureau in 1999, Tobias passed on a 3,366 word / 18,644 character instruction to his coworkers, explaining “the recipe for making Font Bureau specimen pages” in the style of Font Bureau’s iconic stacked-and-justified type showings that have since become a standard in the type industry. The occasionally snarky writing style takes a cue from Thomas MacKellar, who personally wrote much of the text in the for the foundry (an early constituent of ATF).
“The idiom of the composition is drawn primarily from nineteenth century woodtype posters, which would often combine fonts more by their lateral measure, and somewhat less by their vertical measure or even the design itself. The result is an interior made very active with its mix of sizes and styles, and an exterior made stable by the strict delineation of the type area.” — Tobias on the Font Bureau specimen design With this, TFJ built on a style introduced by David Berlow and Roger Black in Font Bureau’s very early days. David: “When I was first asked to digitize Franklin Gothic and Cheltenham in 1989, I wanted to calibrate my process to the original metal faces via the specimens as closely as possible.
So, I recomposed the ATF specimens exactly in Pagemaker with the new fonts, learning details of sizing the font to the em, leading, and optical size issues by trying to compose the pages with a single outline.” “Roger Black was already doing this kind of composition in his publication design work, and I soon learned that anything I made a specimen of in this way, he’d love. So it stuck until the next generation had been convinced of the utter beauty of type composed as art imitating life.” — David Berlow on Font Bureau’s stacked-and-justified specimens.
The, created by, is housed in the lower floor. Unlike other movements, there is not one style that unites the work of all artists who were part of the Vienna Secession. The Secession building could be considered the icon of the movement. Above its entrance was placed the phrase 'Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit.'
('To every age its art. To every art its freedom.' Secession artists were concerned, above all else, with exploring the possibilities of art outside the confines of academic tradition. They hoped to create a new style that owed nothing to historical influence. In this way they were very much in keeping with the iconoclastic spirit of turn-of-the-century Vienna (the time and place that also saw the publication of 's first writings). The Secessionist style was exhibited in a magazine that the group produced, called Ver Sacrum, which featured highly decorative works representative of the period.
Architecture Along with painters and sculptors, there were several prominent architects who became associated with the Vienna Secession. During this time, architects focused on bringing purer geometric forms into the designs of their buildings. Even though they had their own type of design, the inspiration came from neoclassical architecture, with the addition of leaves and natural motifs.
The three main architects of this movement were, and. Secessionist architects often decorated the surface of their buildings with linear ornamentation in a form commonly called whiplash or eel style, although Wagner's buildings tended towards greater simplicity and he has been regarded as a pioneer of modernism. In 1898, the group's exhibition house was built in the vicinity of. Designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, the exhibition building soon became known simply as 'the Secession' ( die Sezession) and became an icon of the movement.
The secession building displayed art from several other influential artists such as, and. Otto Wagner's Majolika Haus in (c.
1898) is a significant example of the Austrian use of line. Other significant works of Otto Wagner include The in Vienna (1900), and in Vienna (1904–1906). Wagner's way of modifying decoration in a classical manner did not find favour with some of his pupils who broke away to form the Secessionists.
One was Josef Hoffmann who left to form the. A good example of his work is the in (1905). Commemoration The Secession movement was selected as the theme for a commemorative coin: the 100 euro minted on 10 November 2004.
On the obverse side there is a view of the in. The reverse side features a small portion of the. The extract from the painting features three figures: a knight in armor representing Armed Strength, one woman in the background symbolizing Ambition and holding up a wreath of victory, and a second woman representing Sympathy with lowered head and clasped hands. On the obverse side of the, the Vienna Secession Building figures within a circle, symbolising the birth of and a new age in the country.
Other Secession artists.
Secession is a very readable typeface, suitable for short blocks of text. If you have grown weary of the standard sans-serif faces one sees all the time, you may want to use Secession as a fresh and distinctive substitute.
Like, Secession is one of a number of typeface designs that attempts to reconcile Germany’s blackletter tradition with the international familiarity of roman letterforms in a simple, robust design suitable for meeting the demands of a modern industrial economy, while rejecting the extraneous ornamentation of the departing Victorian era. Unlike Kunstler Grotesk, Secession was designed with a lower case. Secession Bold was originally jointly released as Halbfette Secession by Bauer & Company of Stuttgart and H. Berthold AG of Berlin around 1898. The rest of the family was designed by HiH.
The basic family of four: Text, Oblique, Bold and BoldOblique are available in two versions: one set with the standard contemporary lining or ranging numerals for spreadsheets and tables and one set of old-style figures (with OSF in font name) for use with text. The two versions of the basic family, Secession and Secession OSF were released in July 2006. Cousins include ExtraBold, SCOSF Text, and two multi-lingual versions of the text weight. Secession ML includes the Latin Extended-A character set in unicode format plus 17 ligatures and a few strays. Secession GreekML has all the characters of the ML version plus the unicode Greek set and 17 Greek ligatures. Release of the cousins took place in August and October of 2006.
Click on BUYING CHOICES. Click on GLYPHS and use drop-down menus and slider to see the all the glyphs for the various fonts. Similar: Birmingham (Ref 100 Ornamental Alphabets, Solo); Spartana (Art Nouveau Display Alphabets, Solo).
Ver Sacrum (‘Sacred Spring’ in Latin) was the official magazine of the Vienna Secession from 1898 to 1903. It’s advances in graphic design, typography and illustration set the model for later art magazine design and continues to influence magazine and book design to this day. The first issue was released in January of 1898 with its arrival being announced in leading newspapers as a subscription journal. For the first two years, the journal was published monthly with each issue devoted to the work of a particular artist also in charge of designing the issue’s cover.
In 1898, the July issue was devoted to the Czech art nouveau designer Alphonse Mucha, while the December issue was illustrated by Dutch symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff. For the cover of the first issue, Alfred Roller provided an illustration of a blossoming planted tree with the roots breaking out of it’s container.
The metaphor was appropriate – the Secessionists had freed themselves from the confines of the Kunstlerhaus (Vienna’s conservative exhibiting body) bringing their modernist and utopian message to the public. They wrote in the first issue: “Our aim is to awaken, encourage and propagate the artistic perception of our time.we know no difference between ‘great art’ and ‘intimate art’, between art for the rich and art for the poor. We have dedicated ourselves with our whole power and future hopes, with everything that we are to the Sacred Springtime”. This name chosen for the magazine: Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) was a classical reference to the secession of youths from the elders of the city to found a new society. This idea of youth as a symbol of rebellion and innovation was nothing new, it was the very heart of the Jugendstil movement and the Lebensreform movement (life reform) that accompanied it. Yet, while Jugendstil rejected historicism, the Vienna Secession embraced it- drawing analogies between themselves and the ancient youths but also recognizing that modernism could co-exist with the ideals of classical art. The release of the first issue was pre-mature given that it was eleven months before the opening of the Joseph Olbrich Secession House and 3 months before their first exhibition in the Horticultural hall.
However, one can look at the early release as a dress rehearsal for many of the ideas that would be developed in their exhibitions. Ver Sacrum served as an exhibition in itself, using the blank pages as walls in a museum. The magazine’s principle designer, Koloman Moser, approached the layout with great creativity, constantly altering it within whilst creating a beautiful harmony of text and illustration. When Olbrich’s Secession House did begin to hold exhibits, this same modular approach to picture arrangement was adopted by Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann through the unique use of moving partitions and walls within the structure. In both its harmony of text and image and in its inclusion of multiple art forms, Ver Sacrum was a manifestation of composer Richard Wagner’s ideas of ‘Gesamkunstwerk’- a total work of art. In one of Alfred Roller’s entries as Secession secretary from June 1897, he discusses the idea for the magazine that would encompass all the arts: “Moser suggested publishing an art magazine as an official organ of the association.
Directive: the fine arts, poetry and belles-lettres. Prose will not be excluded if joined with fine art. The magazine did in fact live up to this goal; including, in addition to fine and graphic arts, music, poetry, and theatre into its pages. The poems of Rainer Maria Rilke appeared in 1898 and 1899 issues, juxtaposed with stunning decorative borders by Koloman Moser while the December 1901 issue was devoted entirely to music, featuring 11 richly illustrated lieder by contemporary Austrian. Most unique of all was the magazine’s square format—a radical new step in the design of periodicals. The square, and more so the grid, had found its way from the Scottish Arts and Crafts movement, particularly in the work of Charles Mackintosh who became a corresponding member if the Secession. This format offered new possibilities in layout for the designer’s use of multiple text columns, decorative borders, and negative space.
Vienna Secession Art Nouveau
The square format became their ideal aspect ratio as most of their illustrations were executed in this format, while Klimt chose it for the majority of his landscape paintings. Years later, The Dutch Art-Deco periodical Wendingen would also adopt the square format and push the limits of typographic and layout design even further.
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Ver Sacrum ceased production in December 1903, likely because of lack of funds. It had already seen a gradual decline in its quality in 1900 when, production increased to 24 issues a year, but in a much smaller and slimmer format than those produced in the first two years.
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The unique changing covers from 1898-99 were replaced with a repeating masthead, and text replaced much of the graphic borders and motifs.
We named this font Scholz Secession. Fin-de-siecle Vienna, Austria is the source of this Jugendstil design from Schriftgiesserei Eduard Scholz. The original release was under the name Reklameschrift Secession. Most of the curve strokes look like commas to me. Hyper-v server 2012 setup. The letters are as soft and plump as the comforter on the bed I slept on in a Salzburg B&B many years ago. I was traveling with a college buddy and our next stop was Vienna. There a kind, young student named Hanna and her boyfriend took us under their wing.
One of the places Hanna proudly showed us was Otto Wagner’s Majolika Haus, built in 1898, and only about 8 blocks from Secession Hall. Hanna explained to us that the style was called Jugendstil and represented Art Nouveau as interpreted within the framework of their culture. I even took a picture.
After all, memories are part of who we are. Figures are old-style for text use. This font would not be my first choice for a spread sheet.
Included are German ligatures ch (alt-0123) & ck (125), two period ornaments (135, 175) and lower case o and u with Hungarian long umlaut (215, 247)). A very likeable and easy-to-use font.
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