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The I Love Type series is witness to the fashionable comeback of a selection of time-honoured typefaces with focus on the one type-family at a time. Capturing a myriad of inventive type treatments, ranging from layout arrangements,special printing and custom variants, the series is a review of how todays graphic designers are breathing new life into classic typesets and timeless aesthetics into modern context. I Love Futura is the first volume of the type collection, focussing on Futura, designed by Paul Renner.

I Love Type 01 - Futura Anglais

Adrian Shaughnessy

Tony Brook

Erik Brandt

Claudia Klat

Yves Peters

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Gill Sans, a sans-serif typeface widely used today, was designed by Eric Gill in 1926; the first public usage of the typeface was that same year, when Gill used it on signage for a new bookshop opening in his hometown of Bristol. I LOVE TYPE 05 - GILL SANS explores the multitude of unexpected ways this popular typeface has been used, subverted and reinvented by a host of clever and inspired designers in recent years.

I Love Gill Sans

Aesthetic rampages by the trailblazers of tomorrow's design. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The painting The Young Ladies of Avignon by Picasso was initially scorned but is now considered to be seminal to the development of both cubism and modern art. The dissonance and complex rhythm structures of Stravinsky's ballet music The Rite of Spring caused a scandal when it premiered, but the composition now ranks among the most important musical works of the twentieth century. While art was allowed to be ugly, design had to function. Although for hundreds of years new artistic styles were established through aesthetic upheaval, new trends in graphic design and visual communication were, until recently, variations on what was generally considered to be appealing. But in the last few years, those working in these creative disciplines started to rebel. Dada-esque graphics or unreadable typography began to be used as a way to claim a unique style advantage. Pretty Ugly is a diverse collection of these recent aesthetic rampages not only in the fields of graphic design and visual communication, but also in product design, furniture design, art, and photography. The originators of this work consciously use unusual or negatively perceived forms, colors, and perspectives in an attempt to blaze new creative trails. The variety of examples in Pretty Ugly makes clear that creative leadership in today's design world is less a matter of skilled craft and more about mastering elements that give's one's work a unique visual identity. The elements shown here may still be considered by some to by ugly, but they are already influencing the vanguard of tomorrow's design. Pretty Ugly is edited by former Hort designer Martin Lorenz and his wife Lupi Asensio, who currently work together as Two Points.Net.

Visual Rebellion in Design

Pretty Ugly

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