Sony Music Timeline by Alex Fowkes. Inspiration, Interviews November 6, 2012 2012 marks the 125th year of Sony Music, the company who brought us some of the most iconic records in musical history. And to commemorate this milestone, Sony Music has unveiled an amazing graphic installation documenting the highlights of the company’s 125-year history. The project was a massive showcase of typography and illustration spearheaded by London-based designer and Creative Review’s ”One to Watch” 2011 winner – Alex Fowkes.
The project is called Sony Music Timeline that runs throughout the central atrium of the company’s open plan Derry Street offices. Sony Music Timeline from Rob Antill on Vimeo The graphic installation is a combination of amazing use of typography and illustration featuring nearly 1000 names of artists signed to Sony Music and its affiliated labels which covers from the foundation of Columbia Records in 1887 to the present day. YTD: Hi Alex, tell us how did you land on this amazing project with Sony Music.
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Typography Served :: Gallery. CERIG. La typographie est-elle fâchée avec le web ? Résumé Les contraintes auxquelles est soumise la reproduction du texte sont très différentes lorsqu'on l'imprime ou lorsqu'on l'affiche sur l'écran du moniteur d'un ordinateur. Ce dernier présente en effet une résolution voisine de 72 dpi, très inférieure à celle d'un produit imprimé. La typographie de l'affiché est donc assez différente de celle de l'imprimé. Le web rajoute ses contraintes propres. D'abord, le débit d'Internet est faible, et il n'augmentera pas substantiellement avant plusieurs années.
En effet, le web étant un petit tuyau, le langage de description de page qu'il utilise -- le HTML -- a été conçu de manière à fournir des fichiers de taille aussi réduite que possible. Les ordinateurs récents, qu'ils soient Mac ou PC, possèdent une dizaine de polices en commun. Quels que soient les efforts de présentation consentis par le concepteur d'un site, l'affichage des pages correspondantes dépend de la plate-forme. En conclusion, la typographie des pages web en est à ses débuts. A2-TYPE. Le Typographe.
Home — Typofonderie. Fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) 30 of the Best Web Typography Resources Online | Webdesigner Dep. It seems there are two camps among web designers: those who embrace web typography, experiment with it, and try new things in virtually all of their designs; and those who avoid it like the plague, opting to use standard, web-safe font stacks with little variation.
It also seems like a lot of the designers who fall into the second group wish they were more like the first. The resources below can help you improve your web typography, regardless of which camp you fall into. There are tools for creating unique typography, references and articles that can teach you typographic principles, and plenty of inspiration and news to keep you updated on the state of web typography.
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