The Gungle » Typography http://www.thegungle.com/b Ben Green makes nice with technology and humans Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:05:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gert Wiescher Interview at MyFonts http://www.thegungle.com/b/2008/12/gert-wiescher-interview-at-myfonts/ http://www.thegungle.com/b/2008/12/gert-wiescher-interview-at-myfonts/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:23:31 +0000 Ben Green http://www.thegungle.com/b/?p=346 I enjoyed this interview with typographer Gert Wiescher. He digitised the Bodoni Family in 1993, and re-interpreted the New Yorker font by hand-drawing it off points.

New Yorker Type examples

And as a designer who was well experienced before proliferation of personal computers, he’s got a view of computers as tools that shouldn’t intervene in the creative process:

Today there are unlimited possibilities to change forms or make alternative weights — and they are sooooo easy to implement — it is no longer necessary to think first and design later. A designer can produce an endless number of variations and then choose what looks best. The problem seems to be that this process takes long and consumes a monstrous amount of time. Lost time, I call it. If you work that way, computers steal a lot of your time instead of saving time.

My feeling is that designers who’ve always worked with computers develop processes to focus their creative workflow, rather than letting the numerous tools intervene in that process. I sometimes wish I was one of them.

Examples of the Bodoni Classic Typefaces

I also like reading about designers who’ve made a lifetime endeavour of it, it doesn’t always seem to be encouraged in the online industry nowadays.

Creative Characters, The Faces Behind the Fonts: Gert Wiescher

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