How to Choose Fonts
Letters for a newspaper
A course by Enric Jardí , Designer
About the video: Letters for a newspaper
Overview
“In this case, I tell you how the typographic system of a publication believes.”
In this video lesson Enric Jardí addresses the topic: Letters for a newspaper, which is part of the Domestika online course: How to Choose Fonts. Discover what each type of font tells us and how to choose the right one for your project.
Partial transcription of the video
“Letters for a newspaper This second exercise will be a bit more complex. In this second exercise we are going to choose and use fonts to make a more complex type system, like a publication, where we have different needs. Let's see with what criteria and how we did the redesign from the "Chicago Reader", which is a Chicago weekly. This was how it looked before the redesign. This was the cover of the main supplement. Here you see the lack of criteria in general because this is another number from another week. The only thing in common with the previous image was the header. So there was pract...”
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Course summary for: How to Choose Fonts
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Information Design, Web Design
Enric Jardí
A course by Enric Jardí
Enric Jardí is a graphic designer who loves letters and typography. He's worked in many fields throughout his career, but has mainly focused on editorial design, art direction, book covers, corporate identity, typography, and illustration.
He is passionate about lettering and typography. He has published several books, including Veintidós consejos sobre tipografía (que algunos diseñadores jamás revelarán) y veintidós cosas que nunca debes hacer con las letras (que algunos tipógrafos nunca te dirán) and Pensar con imágenes, which have both been translated into several other languages.
Enric combines his professional career with teaching at multiple academic centers such as the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Blanquerna foundation, the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona, ELISAVA, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the University of Lapland in Finland, and IDEP Barcelona.
He was president of the Association of Art Directors and Graphic Designers ADG-FAD for several years and has received several awards for his professional work in the field of design, including: a European Design Award, a Laus, a D&AD Award, and a Malofiej for infographics and the National Culture Award in the design category, granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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