Typography Videos
Here are some typography-related videos.
This video is a beautiful brief introduction to typography. Typography is what language looks like - Ellen Lupton. A good typographer is someone who communicates a point of view with skill and imagination and makes the type taste good—Jeffrey Keedy
Veteran graphic design, typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing, David Dabner talks about typography, giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers—in his opinion—make students sloppy.
An interesting use of type. The typewriter font mimics those used in old police reports. Individual letter forms are animated to illustrate characteristics of, in this instance, a serial killer.
Helvetica The Documentary (clip) Wim Crouwel:
One minute and 53 seconds with Wim Crouwel. “Neutralism was a word that we loved”.
Helvetica The Documentary (clip) Erik Spiekermann.
“I just like looking at type…they are my friends.”
Pulp Fiction
“What ain’t no country I ever heard of….”
Devil’s Advocate
“Inside information”
Typography in Motion
“Conscious”
Typography Brazil
Designing Multi Lingual OpenType Fonts
TV Interview: Typeface Design
— Hochuli & Kinross
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Robert
This is one of my favorite sections of the website. I love watching type in motion. I’ve also been wanting to see the entire documentary on Helvetica. Good Stuff!
Oct 12, 2007
johno (iLT)
Robert
If you find any other good type videos, then let me know, and I’ll post them here.
Oct 12, 2007
Robert
Will do! My only concern is that this section of the website is a little hard to find if you’ve never been here before. Maybe you could highlight it somewhere. I know the site is starting to get crowded and complex but it’s just a thought. :)
Oct 12, 2007
johno (iLT)
Robert
Actually, I’m wondering how you found it at all. Perhaps I should at least add it to the Typography Tags, under “video”.
Oct 12, 2007
Robert
Well I think thats where I found it, but its kinda hidden because it reads like this Typoholism Univers 55 video
Oct 12, 2007
Robert
http://youtube.com/watch?v=syf8olcM0z4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX7N58df0j0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhAdFoEge1c
These are pretty cool.
Oct 13, 2007
Dumitru
http://www.esad.pt/personalviews/
ESAD(Portuguese School of Arts and Design) has this series of videos of renown designers speaking at their auditorium. Erik Spiekermann’s speech is brilliant, he’s such a funny man!
Oct 18, 2007
johno (iLT)
Robert
Thanks very much for those links. I’ve added a couple of them.
Dumitru
I was watching these videos again last week. I’ll be posting one of them in the next news item. Thanks for the reminder.
Oct 18, 2007
Dumitru
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EHPOtvMAJrg
Oct 18, 2007
Hamish M
I love these motion typography videos. It’s actually really hard to do (or do well, at least) — believe me, I’ve tried. I found a bunch of really cool ones here:
http://yuxt.com/artist/Typography
Some of them you already have — but I think there are others worthy of mention. :)
Oct 19, 2007
johno (iLT)
Hamish
Thanks for the link. I’ve seen most of them, but there are a few new good ones. I’ll dig through and post some more here.
Oct 19, 2007
johno (iLT)
Robert
I think I should add a link to the videos in the sidebar. Thanks for mentioning.
Oct 20, 2007
Robert
No prob. ;)
Oct 26, 2007