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		<title>Working on Girl Editor for a Balenciaga lettering</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process.png 2560w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process-768x408.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process-1536x816.png 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process-2048x1088.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">R</span>ecently</span> I have been working on a lettering for <span class="author">Balenciaga</span>. I had been inspired by those experimental looking magazine pages <span class="author">Diana Vreeland</span> did in the late sixties for <em>Vogue</em>. <span class="author">Liberman</span> used those extremely elongated semi-classicist headline typefaces even in italic variants. They look quite strange and somewhat unusual to modern eyes but if we look close they are not bare of fascination. Yes, as the word in itself seems to suppose: fashionable. Excentric.

At about the same period the clothes of Spanish fashion designer <span class="author">Cristóbal Balenciaga</span> were <em>“en vogue”</em> and many of the editorial pages speak about him and show his couture dresses that are surely not less daring experimental. A couple that matches. From a type design point of view, however, this is somehow hard of an excercise. The name is extremely long, set in an wide character with thin hairlines and harsh stroke contrast. This intrigued me.

<div class="image-column"><span class="small-dida"><span class="author">Cristóbal Balenciaga</span> · Tailoring Work</span><blockquote style="text-align:left">In a certain way the great Spanish couture master acted like a type designer himself. With the utmost scruples taking care of the perfect fit, specially there where tailored forms intersect with the female body.</blockquote><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/photo-henri-cartier-bresson-magnum-photos-balenciaga.jpg" alt="Cristóbal Balenciaga, Tailoring Work" width="260" height="384"/></div>

I decided to re-work on my <em>Girl</em> typeface. Some letters were needed to be adapted in size as I left them in the early 2000 years incompleted. I had some beautiful ‘<em>n</em>’ and ‘<em>m</em>’s with subtle details as broken stems and slightly curved straight lines. The ‘<em>a</em>’ was needed to be re-done.

I wanted to keep the experimental spirit using large ellipsis as counter forms, but at the same time I surely am type designer enough to give them what someone may call the forms of a “real letter”. Because it is often that you do quite easily a fascinating graphic form which however lacks the fluidness and organic quality which makes those forms fit together in a line. Which enables them to attach one to another, chains them together. A quality which is hardly explainable but comes from a long experience of looking on historic typefaces and semi-calligraphic forms.

These are images from a first stage of <em>Girl Editor</em> (re-)design which show some adapted letter forms and the new lowercase ‘<em>a</em>’. There is still a long way to go…

<a class="read more" style="border: none;" title="Alternative Letters" href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/2017/11/alternative-letters/"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i> Read also</a><br><a class="read more" style="border: none;" title="Girl Typeface on Letters" href="https://www.stefanseifert.com/girl-typeface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i> See on <em>Letters</em> (<em>stefanseifert.com</em>)</a>

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Henri Cartier-Bresson</span> | Photography (small)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process.png 2560w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process-768x408.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process-1536x816.png 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/balenciaga_girl-editor_a_process-2048x1088.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">R</span>ecently</span> I have been working on a lettering for <span class="author">Balenciaga</span>. I had been inspired by those experimental looking magazine pages <span class="author">Diana Vreeland</span> did in the late sixties for <em>Vogue</em>. <span class="author">Liberman</span> used those extremely elongated semi-classicist headline typefaces even in italic variants. They look quite strange and somewhat unusual to modern eyes but if we look close they are not bare of fascination. Yes, as the word in itself seems to suppose: fashionable. Excentric.

At about the same period the clothes of Spanish fashion designer <span class="author">Cristóbal Balenciaga</span> were <em>“en vogue”</em> and many of the editorial pages speak about him and show his couture dresses that are surely not less daring experimental. A couple that matches. From a type design point of view, however, this is somehow hard of an excercise. The name is extremely long, set in an wide character with thin hairlines and harsh stroke contrast. This intrigued me.

<div class="image-column"><span class="small-dida"><span class="author">Cristóbal Balenciaga</span> · Tailoring Work</span><blockquote style="text-align:left">In a certain way the great Spanish couture master acted like a type designer himself. With the utmost scruples taking care of the perfect fit, specially there where tailored forms intersect with the female body.</blockquote><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/photo-henri-cartier-bresson-magnum-photos-balenciaga.jpg" alt="Cristóbal Balenciaga, Tailoring Work" width="260" height="384"/></div>

I decided to re-work on my <em>Girl</em> typeface. Some letters were needed to be adapted in size as I left them in the early 2000 years incompleted. I had some beautiful ‘<em>n</em>’ and ‘<em>m</em>’s with subtle details as broken stems and slightly curved straight lines. The ‘<em>a</em>’ was needed to be re-done.

I wanted to keep the experimental spirit using large ellipsis as counter forms, but at the same time I surely am type designer enough to give them what someone may call the forms of a “real letter”. Because it is often that you do quite easily a fascinating graphic form which however lacks the fluidness and organic quality which makes those forms fit together in a line. Which enables them to attach one to another, chains them together. A quality which is hardly explainable but comes from a long experience of looking on historic typefaces and semi-calligraphic forms.

These are images from a first stage of <em>Girl Editor</em> (re-)design which show some adapted letter forms and the new lowercase ‘<em>a</em>’. There is still a long way to go…

<a class="read more" style="border: none;" title="Alternative Letters" href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/2017/11/alternative-letters/"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i> Read also</a><br><a class="read more" style="border: none;" title="Girl Typeface on Letters" href="https://www.stefanseifert.com/girl-typeface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i> See on <em>Letters</em> (<em>stefanseifert.com</em>)</a>

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Henri Cartier-Bresson</span> | Photography (small)]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Memoir Spacing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png 1643w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-768x510.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-300x200.png 300w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-400x265.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1643px) 100vw, 1643px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span></span> very demanding task, vital for the success of a typeface is that of finding the right <em>spaces</em> for each singular letter. As one can easily imagine the number of possible combinations even in a Roman alphabet is very high. But, what may seem frightening to someone making a quick calculation of that number is quite a daily business for a type designer. For the simple reason that he has got used to it and of course over the time found his methods to deal with it.

There are indeed several good methods for this challenge that didn’t change so much over the centuries of making typefaces, I guess. One of them is doubling letters to pairs or creating even higher numbers of copies and put them side by side. I remember the first time seeing something like that in an old book about <span class="author">Frederic W. Goudy</span>, the famous American type designer and printer in the first decades of the past century. He used to print testing sheets of his metal casted letters into large rows of duplicate letters.

Doing so, in the first line, does give the type designer an idea of the general room (neglecting left or right side distances) each letter has been given. On the hand this is to avoid a too deep color caused by letters tightened too much, on the other it gives us a more precise control over the inner and outer rhythm of straight lines. In an ideal, admittedly a little too rigorous sense, distances between the two (or three) vertical lines within a letter image should be the same as the one between the last one of one letters and the starting one of its succeeding colleague (remember: for all possible combinations!). By putting, initially, the <em>same</em> letter in a row (at least, two of them) and glancing over them it is easier to detect eventual rhythm mistakes.

Having done so and given that the type designer knowing well his creation and therefor being able to center each individual letter image between its (invisible) borders he may then compare rows of different letters among each other. To settle if certain letter designs lack of sufficient space on left and right side or are set up to tight.

The next step is that of comparing more thoroughly typical letter combinations or the ones that each designer depending on his individual style and preference (of course being related to his mother language, but this would fill another essay much longer than this one). In my eyes it is also important to concentrate with this on pairings that one particularly is being fond of. What may sound kind of funny, is a design truth for my opinion. Because having fun with this work or let’s even say to fall kind in love with letter pairings and combinations is part of the success story of a typeface. For the creation process is far less theoretic or mathematic as one may suppose. Simply for the fact that it takes long time, asks a lot of patience of the craftsman or a digital designer and in the end is a matter of heart. This is when inspiration comes into the game. And changing it.

Personally I try to melt the glyph design process and the letter spacing to one continuous process. Like here in the <em>Memoir</em> ‘<em>sa</em>’ combination I also correct the <span class="author">Béziers</span> many times after the first sketches to accord letters’ rhythm between each other. I try to intuit a certain flow that is able to chain the letter images together. In a way that also lines that <em>cross</em> the general rhythm of a typeface maybe be more easily handled by the human eye to fit into it. It is hard to exactly describe what this means but certainly it is also a matter of the (invisible) white spaces that place between two letters.

If you are working on a digital <em>Metrics</em> window you may also add and delete characters, go back and forth doing so to trick the eye a little and try to intuit what happens when they change places. Close the eye a little and concentrate on vertical rhythm only regardless of which letter the consisting straight line are being part of.

To be honest, in my eyes, it is kind of a fifty-fifty game. Learn about the methods and get used to them but also trust blindly in your own feelings. In the end we are not talking about reason here, we gain to achieve <em>beauty</em>.


<blockquote>(…) vedevo emergere un ovale bianco, degli occhi neri, degli occhi verdi, non sapevo se fossero gli stessi che mi avevano già deliziato un momento prima, non potevo metterli in rapporto con una data fanciulla ch’io avessi separata dalle altre e riconosciuta. E quest’assenza, nella mia visione, del distacco che avrei presto stabilito fra loro, propagava attraverso il gruppo un ondeggiamento armonioso, la traslazione continua di una bellezza fluida, collettiva e mobile.</blockquote>
<span class="author" style="color: #000; float: right;"><span class="long_slash">–</span> Marcel Proust, <span class="fountain"><em>All’ombra delle fanciulle in fiore</em></span><br>&nbsp;<br><br>&nbsp;<br>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png 1643w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-768x510.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-300x200.png 300w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-400x265.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1643px) 100vw, 1643px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span></span> very demanding task, vital for the success of a typeface is that of finding the right <em>spaces</em> for each singular letter. As one can easily imagine the number of possible combinations even in a Roman alphabet is very high. But, what may seem frightening to someone making a quick calculation of that number is quite a daily business for a type designer. For the simple reason that he has got used to it and of course over the time found his methods to deal with it.

There are indeed several good methods for this challenge that didn’t change so much over the centuries of making typefaces, I guess. One of them is doubling letters to pairs or creating even higher numbers of copies and put them side by side. I remember the first time seeing something like that in an old book about <span class="author">Frederic W. Goudy</span>, the famous American type designer and printer in the first decades of the past century. He used to print testing sheets of his metal casted letters into large rows of duplicate letters.

Doing so, in the first line, does give the type designer an idea of the general room (neglecting left or right side distances) each letter has been given. On the hand this is to avoid a too deep color caused by letters tightened too much, on the other it gives us a more precise control over the inner and outer rhythm of straight lines. In an ideal, admittedly a little too rigorous sense, distances between the two (or three) vertical lines within a letter image should be the same as the one between the last one of one letters and the starting one of its succeeding colleague (remember: for all possible combinations!). By putting, initially, the <em>same</em> letter in a row (at least, two of them) and glancing over them it is easier to detect eventual rhythm mistakes.

Having done so and given that the type designer knowing well his creation and therefor being able to center each individual letter image between its (invisible) borders he may then compare rows of different letters among each other. To settle if certain letter designs lack of sufficient space on left and right side or are set up to tight.

The next step is that of comparing more thoroughly typical letter combinations or the ones that each designer depending on his individual style and preference (of course being related to his mother language, but this would fill another essay much longer than this one). In my eyes it is also important to concentrate with this on pairings that one particularly is being fond of. What may sound kind of funny, is a design truth for my opinion. Because having fun with this work or let’s even say to fall kind in love with letter pairings and combinations is part of the success story of a typeface. For the creation process is far less theoretic or mathematic as one may suppose. Simply for the fact that it takes long time, asks a lot of patience of the craftsman or a digital designer and in the end is a matter of heart. This is when inspiration comes into the game. And changing it.

Personally I try to melt the glyph design process and the letter spacing to one continuous process. Like here in the <em>Memoir</em> ‘<em>sa</em>’ combination I also correct the <span class="author">Béziers</span> many times after the first sketches to accord letters’ rhythm between each other. I try to intuit a certain flow that is able to chain the letter images together. In a way that also lines that <em>cross</em> the general rhythm of a typeface maybe be more easily handled by the human eye to fit into it. It is hard to exactly describe what this means but certainly it is also a matter of the (invisible) white spaces that place between two letters.

If you are working on a digital <em>Metrics</em> window you may also add and delete characters, go back and forth doing so to trick the eye a little and try to intuit what happens when they change places. Close the eye a little and concentrate on vertical rhythm only regardless of which letter the consisting straight line are being part of.

To be honest, in my eyes, it is kind of a fifty-fifty game. Learn about the methods and get used to them but also trust blindly in your own feelings. In the end we are not talking about reason here, we gain to achieve <em>beauty</em>.


<blockquote>(…) vedevo emergere un ovale bianco, degli occhi neri, degli occhi verdi, non sapevo se fossero gli stessi che mi avevano già deliziato un momento prima, non potevo metterli in rapporto con una data fanciulla ch’io avessi separata dalle altre e riconosciuta. E quest’assenza, nella mia visione, del distacco che avrei presto stabilito fra loro, propagava attraverso il gruppo un ondeggiamento armonioso, la traslazione continua di una bellezza fluida, collettiva e mobile.</blockquote>
<span class="author" style="color: #000; float: right;"><span class="long_slash">–</span> Marcel Proust, <span class="fountain"><em>All’ombra delle fanciulle in fiore</em></span><br>&nbsp;<br><br>&nbsp;<br>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>To Put Or Not Those Extra Points</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Excess-S_19.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Excess-S_19.png 2511w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Excess-S_19-768x424.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 2511px) 100vw, 2511px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">S</span>ometimes</span>, or even always if I am asking myself more closely, I envy all the designers and creatives in the world for whom the computer might be not more than just a (powerful) tool to organize their work, to make it more simple to correct, modify, archive it etc. Like it may certainly influence and have a huge impact on the production of work in a great couture enterprise who, yet, in the end let those critical touches, of how the material is cut and put together in the hand of skilled craftsmen or the designer himself. 

This is so different and brings me even to the question wether it is an art any longer or not, to what we type designers have to face and how much and <em>essentially</em> the computer influences in a direct way on our design, how <span class="author">Béziers</span> corrupt our feeling towards natural forms, how it undermines the organic flow of the swelling of a curve!

Speaking for me, I am continuously involved in a deep struggle between what my imagination seems to want me to do and what <span class="author">Béziers</span> try to allow me, or better limit me to do. Certainly, we can put points and points into the middle of our curves (even if I personally tend to shift them asymmetrically towards one side of it) but don’t we have the impression then it made our form more insecure, more shaky? That’s because of the digital grid that forces them to go to one side or another and never seem to let them stay where we wanted them. This is as well valid for the points themselves as well as for their tangents which like in a zooming glass seem to make our curve jump from one extreme to another.

If I had the time to do so, not being forced to make my money as a graphic designer (which I certainly like) I could spend some weeks like a scientist to make dozens of diagrams minutely displaying every minimal step I make in a curve to demonstrate what I mean. But I do not. I am sorry for this lack. I limit pictures of this post to a daily working process scene on a character called <em>Excess</em>, just without comments. If you like to click through the slides feel free to leave yours anyhow! Or, otherwise, just be comforted to be not alone searching for the <em>correct</em> curve that never seems to happen.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Excess-S_19.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Excess-S_19.png 2511w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Excess-S_19-768x424.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 2511px) 100vw, 2511px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">S</span>ometimes</span>, or even always if I am asking myself more closely, I envy all the designers and creatives in the world for whom the computer might be not more than just a (powerful) tool to organize their work, to make it more simple to correct, modify, archive it etc. Like it may certainly influence and have a huge impact on the production of work in a great couture enterprise who, yet, in the end let those critical touches, of how the material is cut and put together in the hand of skilled craftsmen or the designer himself. 

This is so different and brings me even to the question wether it is an art any longer or not, to what we type designers have to face and how much and <em>essentially</em> the computer influences in a direct way on our design, how <span class="author">Béziers</span> corrupt our feeling towards natural forms, how it undermines the organic flow of the swelling of a curve!

Speaking for me, I am continuously involved in a deep struggle between what my imagination seems to want me to do and what <span class="author">Béziers</span> try to allow me, or better limit me to do. Certainly, we can put points and points into the middle of our curves (even if I personally tend to shift them asymmetrically towards one side of it) but don’t we have the impression then it made our form more insecure, more shaky? That’s because of the digital grid that forces them to go to one side or another and never seem to let them stay where we wanted them. This is as well valid for the points themselves as well as for their tangents which like in a zooming glass seem to make our curve jump from one extreme to another.

If I had the time to do so, not being forced to make my money as a graphic designer (which I certainly like) I could spend some weeks like a scientist to make dozens of diagrams minutely displaying every minimal step I make in a curve to demonstrate what I mean. But I do not. I am sorry for this lack. I limit pictures of this post to a daily working process scene on a character called <em>Excess</em>, just without comments. If you like to click through the slides feel free to leave yours anyhow! Or, otherwise, just be comforted to be not alone searching for the <em>correct</em> curve that never seems to happen.]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Magazine Layout for the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2017 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chanel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YSL-section.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YSL-section.jpg 1977w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YSL-section-768x451.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1977px) 100vw, 1977px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>n</span> the return of a recent journey to Italy I was annoying myself on the airport and, thus, bought me quite an older book about <span class="author">Richard Avedon</span> photography. Beautiful inspiring photographs, but what, by far, struck me most were some of those smaller pictures added on the margins of the pages: demonstrating how they were composed in <em>Harper’s Bazaar</em> magazine pages of the forties, fifties and beginning sixties by genius art director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Brodovitch" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="author">Alexey Brodovitch</span></a>.

It was such a stunning way to divide and subdivide spaces between blocks of typography, white areas, finally, even in relation to the composition of the images themselves. I, at once, recognized dozens of obvious proportions referring clearly to the <em>Golden cut</em>, also blank spaces bordering text blocks within sober <em>squares</em> in a repeatingly degressive mode, thus beginning with big ones on the outer side down to smaller ones nested in their inside. Moreover, I said to myself, these weren’t the results of a meticulous calculation but rather instinctive games of a superb layouter as he was.



<blockquote>A tendency to return exactly to that point from which we started. I am talking of explicit and distinctive <span class="quote_emphasize">magazine layout</span>.</blockquote>



Now, what we can take over into our times of such splendid examples? I guess we have to talk about <em>user interface (ui) design</em> in the first place. It is since long <em>the</em> most important discipline to aim at for excellent typography as it gathers all what is displayed on electronic devices rather than using paper. In my web design beginner years at the start of this century I remember that we were so much fascinated by the new facilities which the monitor design gave to us, such as animation in the first place. We were tempted, and I think we were right at that time to do so, to try everything that brought us as far as possible away from static <em>paper</em> layout. Whereas for now there seems to exist a clear tendency of modern webpages and applications, at least in those of them trying to introduce some elevated style and elegance, to return exactly to that point from which we started. I am talking of explicit and distinctive <em>magazine layout</em>.



<blockquote>Moreover, I said to myself, these weren’t the results of a meticulous calculation but rather instinctive games of a superb layouter as he was.</blockquote>



And this is, by far, much more difficult as it may seem at a first glance! That is because we are confronted with a seemingly almost uncontrollable variety of devices and monitor sizes. Thus, modern <em>grid systems</em> developed refined methods to keep proportions (things that for many reasons before <em>CSS3</em> were only very hard, if not impossible to achieve) neat and clear, and scale them up and down in a horizontal and vertical direction. Some pages as <a href="https://www.chanel.com/en_WW/fashion/haute-couture.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>www.chanel.com</em></a> base their concept on <em>absolute positioning</em> techniques employing <em>Javascript</em> recalculation. Meanwhile, almost unrecognized, there is another fine means to achieve similar things with pure <em>CSS</em>. Since <em>CSS3</em> was introduced we have measures as <em>vw</em> and <em>vh</em>, instead of percentage and rigid pixel widths. That allows our elements to act <em>relative</em> (in all circumstances and independent of their surrounding containers) to our outer <em>viewport</em> size and proportion, in consequence, leaving us the choice to treat the latter like a magazine <em>page</em>.

What seems little and certainly not one of the most breathtaking news of the web (but in fact it is fairly much!) gives back to us designers the possibility to act just as those ancient brillant layouters. We regain control of the division of spaces between text, white room and photography, being free to do collages etc. And many of new cool and elegant applications will take advantage of this, I am convinced! On my own homepage (<a href="https://www.stefanseifert.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>www.stefanseifert.com</em></a>) relaunch I try to rely purely on viewport size relative measures. That is not only in horizontal sense, but also for rigorous vertical distribution of all elements keeping respective distances chained to page boundries, in both length and width.

To conclude, while I am dragging my browser window to control how my layouts adapt themselves harmoniously I enjoy a side glance at those adorable <span class="author">Bazaar</span> pages in my new “old” book: being so proud of, at least, trying to get close to what those great artists had achieved before us and, thus, participating to pass it on to a demandful, exciting future!]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YSL-section.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YSL-section.jpg 1977w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YSL-section-768x451.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1977px) 100vw, 1977px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>n</span> the return of a recent journey to Italy I was annoying myself on the airport and, thus, bought me quite an older book about <span class="author">Richard Avedon</span> photography. Beautiful inspiring photographs, but what, by far, struck me most were some of those smaller pictures added on the margins of the pages: demonstrating how they were composed in <em>Harper’s Bazaar</em> magazine pages of the forties, fifties and beginning sixties by genius art director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Brodovitch" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="author">Alexey Brodovitch</span></a>.

It was such a stunning way to divide and subdivide spaces between blocks of typography, white areas, finally, even in relation to the composition of the images themselves. I, at once, recognized dozens of obvious proportions referring clearly to the <em>Golden cut</em>, also blank spaces bordering text blocks within sober <em>squares</em> in a repeatingly degressive mode, thus beginning with big ones on the outer side down to smaller ones nested in their inside. Moreover, I said to myself, these weren’t the results of a meticulous calculation but rather instinctive games of a superb layouter as he was.



<blockquote>A tendency to return exactly to that point from which we started. I am talking of explicit and distinctive <span class="quote_emphasize">magazine layout</span>.</blockquote>



Now, what we can take over into our times of such splendid examples? I guess we have to talk about <em>user interface (ui) design</em> in the first place. It is since long <em>the</em> most important discipline to aim at for excellent typography as it gathers all what is displayed on electronic devices rather than using paper. In my web design beginner years at the start of this century I remember that we were so much fascinated by the new facilities which the monitor design gave to us, such as animation in the first place. We were tempted, and I think we were right at that time to do so, to try everything that brought us as far as possible away from static <em>paper</em> layout. Whereas for now there seems to exist a clear tendency of modern webpages and applications, at least in those of them trying to introduce some elevated style and elegance, to return exactly to that point from which we started. I am talking of explicit and distinctive <em>magazine layout</em>.



<blockquote>Moreover, I said to myself, these weren’t the results of a meticulous calculation but rather instinctive games of a superb layouter as he was.</blockquote>



And this is, by far, much more difficult as it may seem at a first glance! That is because we are confronted with a seemingly almost uncontrollable variety of devices and monitor sizes. Thus, modern <em>grid systems</em> developed refined methods to keep proportions (things that for many reasons before <em>CSS3</em> were only very hard, if not impossible to achieve) neat and clear, and scale them up and down in a horizontal and vertical direction. Some pages as <a href="https://www.chanel.com/en_WW/fashion/haute-couture.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>www.chanel.com</em></a> base their concept on <em>absolute positioning</em> techniques employing <em>Javascript</em> recalculation. Meanwhile, almost unrecognized, there is another fine means to achieve similar things with pure <em>CSS</em>. Since <em>CSS3</em> was introduced we have measures as <em>vw</em> and <em>vh</em>, instead of percentage and rigid pixel widths. That allows our elements to act <em>relative</em> (in all circumstances and independent of their surrounding containers) to our outer <em>viewport</em> size and proportion, in consequence, leaving us the choice to treat the latter like a magazine <em>page</em>.

What seems little and certainly not one of the most breathtaking news of the web (but in fact it is fairly much!) gives back to us designers the possibility to act just as those ancient brillant layouters. We regain control of the division of spaces between text, white room and photography, being free to do collages etc. And many of new cool and elegant applications will take advantage of this, I am convinced! On my own homepage (<a href="https://www.stefanseifert.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>www.stefanseifert.com</em></a>) relaunch I try to rely purely on viewport size relative measures. That is not only in horizontal sense, but also for rigorous vertical distribution of all elements keeping respective distances chained to page boundries, in both length and width.

To conclude, while I am dragging my browser window to control how my layouts adapt themselves harmoniously I enjoy a side glance at those adorable <span class="author">Bazaar</span> pages in my new “old” book: being so proud of, at least, trying to get close to what those great artists had achieved before us and, thus, participating to pass it on to a demandful, exciting future!]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2017 07:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Design Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typeface Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circular]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/old8_new8_less-duktus.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/old8_new8_less-duktus.png 1280w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/old8_new8_less-duktus-768x467.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">W</span>hen</span> it comes to certain work processes, the evolving of a letter design, as an example, things are really getting complicated to describe, if not almost impossible. So many subtle influences slip into the mind of the designer. Glyph designs, while progressing, influence on each other, much of the drawing results appear necessary to be revised once you started with elaborating their spaces, and so on.

I always played with the idea in my mind to describe those kind of things one day, so that others could follow it in a way and maybe even get something out of it for their designs. But as hard as I tried to keep taking screenshots and write little essays about phases of my work, I never succeeded. It is just to complex and the things that <em>you</em> see and feel about a certain curve or <span class="author">Bézier</span> segment to redraw for someone else are hardly reproducible. Find an excerpt of such an attempt and let me, at least, the tiny hope to not have wasted my time entirely. And what is most important: be inspired!

<em>I decided to enlarge a little the inner center form of the upper bowl after I had inserted 4 new points to add a longer, almost straight line transitional area between the two bowls instead of connecting them by a single turning point in the middle. One reason was to adapt it better to the very fine and gracile ‘</em>R<em>’ of this character. By the way, I quite consciously left here the path of having exact same hairline thickness relation between numbers and capitals, at least for now. After all, for me its obvious that the strength of the excellent </em>Renaissance<em> fonts does not derive from their precise measures but from the outstanding capability that their creators had in making their forms match in </em>feeling<em> and subtleness, instead. (In addition, due to the generous ‘circles’ they seem to have embedded in their inner and outer lines). Speaking of those ‘nested circles’, the upper bowl on its inside was good enough for me right now, while the outer line on the left side (observing it with the letter image skipped upside down in </em>metrics<em> window) seemed to lack a little bit of blackness. […]



<blockquote>After all, for me its obvious that the strength of the excellent <span class="quote_emphasize">Renaissance</span> fonts does not derive from their precise measures but from the outstanding capability that their creators had in making their forms match in <span class="quote_emphasize">feeling</span> and subtleness, instead.</blockquote>



Added this (fortunately I already had an extra point in this outer curve dividing it into segments as I often do instinctively in the left down leading part in bowls like i.g. in the ‘</em>8<em>’ or ‘</em>g<em>’, before they get attached to the center part of the glyph) I felt that now the (almost) straight stroke connection had some trouble where it </em>flows<em> into the turning swing. This seemed only in part due to the fact that the newly created interim curve segment was too short to allow a smooth attachment, as to the well known problem of digital raster not allowing tangents to be exact on decreasing lengths. So I added some weight by pushing the curve a little bit towards the outside with the help of the direct curve segment tool (clicking and ‘dragging’ the curve in the middle between the points, which is, in fact, better done with the keyboard arrows) shifting both of the belonging tangents towards the inside a little to make them longer. At this point I returned with the view mode to the upright position in metrics window to maintain final control over the letter’s </em>natural<em> proportions. What I surprisingly found then was that, all of the sudden, I had much less dynamical </em>ductus<em>, which was originally caused by a slightly thicker stroke width on the left, right before it turns around in its swing and before entering the more straight part. I did not know at this point if this was a good thing or not. […]</em>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/old8_new8_less-duktus.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/old8_new8_less-duktus.png 1280w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/old8_new8_less-duktus-768x467.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">W</span>hen</span> it comes to certain work processes, the evolving of a letter design, as an example, things are really getting complicated to describe, if not almost impossible. So many subtle influences slip into the mind of the designer. Glyph designs, while progressing, influence on each other, much of the drawing results appear necessary to be revised once you started with elaborating their spaces, and so on.

I always played with the idea in my mind to describe those kind of things one day, so that others could follow it in a way and maybe even get something out of it for their designs. But as hard as I tried to keep taking screenshots and write little essays about phases of my work, I never succeeded. It is just to complex and the things that <em>you</em> see and feel about a certain curve or <span class="author">Bézier</span> segment to redraw for someone else are hardly reproducible. Find an excerpt of such an attempt and let me, at least, the tiny hope to not have wasted my time entirely. And what is most important: be inspired!

<em>I decided to enlarge a little the inner center form of the upper bowl after I had inserted 4 new points to add a longer, almost straight line transitional area between the two bowls instead of connecting them by a single turning point in the middle. One reason was to adapt it better to the very fine and gracile ‘</em>R<em>’ of this character. By the way, I quite consciously left here the path of having exact same hairline thickness relation between numbers and capitals, at least for now. After all, for me its obvious that the strength of the excellent </em>Renaissance<em> fonts does not derive from their precise measures but from the outstanding capability that their creators had in making their forms match in </em>feeling<em> and subtleness, instead. (In addition, due to the generous ‘circles’ they seem to have embedded in their inner and outer lines). Speaking of those ‘nested circles’, the upper bowl on its inside was good enough for me right now, while the outer line on the left side (observing it with the letter image skipped upside down in </em>metrics<em> window) seemed to lack a little bit of blackness. […]



<blockquote>After all, for me its obvious that the strength of the excellent <span class="quote_emphasize">Renaissance</span> fonts does not derive from their precise measures but from the outstanding capability that their creators had in making their forms match in <span class="quote_emphasize">feeling</span> and subtleness, instead.</blockquote>



Added this (fortunately I already had an extra point in this outer curve dividing it into segments as I often do instinctively in the left down leading part in bowls like i.g. in the ‘</em>8<em>’ or ‘</em>g<em>’, before they get attached to the center part of the glyph) I felt that now the (almost) straight stroke connection had some trouble where it </em>flows<em> into the turning swing. This seemed only in part due to the fact that the newly created interim curve segment was too short to allow a smooth attachment, as to the well known problem of digital raster not allowing tangents to be exact on decreasing lengths. So I added some weight by pushing the curve a little bit towards the outside with the help of the direct curve segment tool (clicking and ‘dragging’ the curve in the middle between the points, which is, in fact, better done with the keyboard arrows) shifting both of the belonging tangents towards the inside a little to make them longer. At this point I returned with the view mode to the upright position in metrics window to maintain final control over the letter’s </em>natural<em> proportions. What I surprisingly found then was that, all of the sudden, I had much less dynamical </em>ductus<em>, which was originally caused by a slightly thicker stroke width on the left, right before it turns around in its swing and before entering the more straight part. I did not know at this point if this was a good thing or not. […]</em>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Del resto, in più che un’occasione, avevo sperimentato come questo aspetto destabilizzante, amplificante, è causa,...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">D</span>el</span> resto, in più che un’occasione, avevo sperimentato come questo aspetto destabilizzante, amplificante, è causa, e in misura riversa, per come la bellezza sa percuotere la nostra anima nel profondo.<span class="note">1</span> […] sotto le spoglie di quei volti e corpi, alcuno somigliante a qualcuno del passato, alcuni finora ignoti, il gioco che ne fa la nostra psiche: una specie di refrattaria rappresentazione ottica del tempo e le sue potenzialità: il seno abbondante di una ragazza di statura piccola che, quand’essa si inchinava leggermente davanti a me e mi scopri le sue forme, farsi visibilmente più strette lì dove sembravano disegnate con due cerchi esterni intenti ad incontrarsi, prima di dischiudersi, analogamente seguiti da altrettanti due cerchi, ma interni e inversi, per le sue piene rotondezze cullate dalla vestaglia, altro non fosse [simbolo di maternità] che il manifestarsi d’una vita possibile ma non vissuta da padre di famiglia, e via dicendo… mentre un’altra invece dalle dita e gambe lunghe e snelle (contrappuntate, nel tatto del suo passo vispo seppure un tantino inesperto, da un vestitino che sopra i fianchi faceva ballonzolare il suo bordo ondato) manterebbe vivo in noi il sogno di essere un pittore con la sua musa, immaginandoci disponibili le sue cosce salde in qualsiasi momento l’avessimo volute…; e in che, oltre la sofferenza a non poterle realizzare tutte queste possibilità*, si sprigiona una gioia immensa per le ricchezze della vita stessa, di cui esse, queste splendide fanciulle, senza rendendosene neppure conto, erano soltanto un magnifico portavoce.</p>
<p>Ma tutto questo, talun frammento<span class="note">2</span> di vite diversi e (im)possibili – ché, essi solo nella nostra visione alternandosi e mescolandosi, la ragione ben sa una escluda l’altra –, non mi sarebbe apparso così urgente se non mi fossi trovato in uno stato di continua agitazione, come non quando, per esempio, le avessi incontrate queste ragazze separatamente una dall’altra, camminando per la strada [‘istrada’]. Così la bellezza, tutt’altro che fatto positivo, costante e irremovibile, dipende in gran parte dallo stato di suscettibilità a riceverla da parte dello spettatore; ma dall’altro canto non è neppure del tutto soggettiva, concernente solo lui (me in questo caso); cosicché mi chiedo se questa situazione potesse essersi sviluppato nello stesso preciso modo in mia assenza, senza il mio occhio lì pronto ad accogliervela.</p>
<p>In quel piccolo teatrino che formavano (e come in un teatro vero, non farebbe senso se gli attori recitassero i loro versi venendo sul palco uno dopo l’altro; e men che meno conta cosa fanno loro nella vita, solo il loro <em>essere</em> simultaneamente davanti al pubblico), le sfumature nelle forme delle gambe della ragazza alta non fossero le stesse, senza accanto di loro il seno [‘scorto nella…’] della fanciulla piccola, e per il cui evidenziare le prime, il balzare della gonna faceva lo stesso come l’inchinarsi provvedeva alla forma del secondo: come i caratteri di una scrittura, che nel loro essere soli, sì, hanno una forma [pre]determinata, ma i cui dettagli sublimi cambiano notevolmente quando verranno composti insieme.</p>
<blockquote><p>Come fosse il loro raggruppamento un continuo spostarsi, un aggiungere qualcosa là, un sottrarre qualcosa da un altra parte. E ogni nuovo elemento arricchisce il loro fluido, è in grado di cambiare i dettagli sottili.</p></blockquote>
<p>E conviene dire, infine, che la squisitezza di queste gambe non avrebbe completata una bellezza mancante di niente, se non essendo stata anticipata dalla visione del seno d’un’altra: nello stesso modo come forse un’aria non può svilupparsi nel suo pieno senso senza essere preceduta dall’ouverture. E, del resto, non di più se il viso della fanciulla in proposito fosse stato più bello, anzi, la di cui imperfezione quasi vi lavorasse nel suo favore per due ragioni: prima, perché mi rendeva più plausibile la realizzazione del godimento della sua carne, prima ancora che queste gote e questa bocca, che ad egli davano un che di rattrapito nel mezzo, come una rosa chiusa<span class="note">3</span>, quando d’improvviso sbocciavano in un sorriso, mi avessero alluso come ad una certezza; secondo perché potesse servirsene la mia memoria più tardi come d’un punto di riferimento. Facendosì che la sua immagine nella mia memoria mi turbasse per settimane, come una fata nel sogno promettendomi una vita preclusa, ma senza essere sicuro, evidentemente, di poterla riconoscere in un possibile rincontro reale, cosa che pure desideravo (sebbene sapendo che, come in quella famosa di Morgana, non si trovi in essa cosa si cercha): come, del resto, l’aver dimentichato del tutto il trama di un sogno di mattina, non ci impedisce di volervi ricadere la notte prossima.</p>
<p>E mi veniva in mente più tardi il pensiero che forse quella diversificazione, quel essere così differenti di due bellezze, apparentemente così lontana una dall’altra (qui radunate in modo così ammirabile, ricongiunte nella freschezza della loro carnagione), fosse quasi un sistema della natura per magnificare ancora di più la sua creazione; come ci volesse dire: Vedi come è bella, ma se tu credi è l’unico modo, toh, te ne do un’altro! E invece di relativare la prima bellezza, di diminuire il suo effetto, non fa che innalzarla ancora ad un livello più alto: attraverso le sue [queste] variazioni, che forse altro non sono che lineamenti diversi modellantisi nel semplice gioco di ombra e luce, ma che per noi esprimono vite intere, componendosi e distruggendosi in un attimo.</p>
<blockquote><p>È questo che ci fa il desiderio; che qualcuno chiami «mutevole», ma è pur sempre quello che crea (vita).</p></blockquote>
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<p>*Più grave ancora, quand’essa, una vita da prima sembrante inattuabile, d’un tratto, attraverso un cenno del capo o un sorriso timidamente abbozzato ci desse il chiaro segno che fosse lì lì per venir trasformata in realtà. Tant’è vero che la fonte di ogni sofferenza è quel che crediamo di non poter vivere, assicurato d’altronde solo nel caso della perdità d’una persona amata per la sua morte, di cui sappiamo non averne mai più la compagnia.</p>
<p>1 – Come credo, del resto, che una grande passione non ci colpisce quando ci troviamo in una situazione di vita tranquilla, dacché emerge di solito fuori da un’esperienza di perdità qualunque; di cui forza si servirà, travolgendola, sicché il di esso soggetto ne incorpora tutto quello che ci è stato tolto, come nel mio caso X*** si è appropriata nel suo corpo di tutta la luce dell’Italia.</p>
<p>2 – Frammentaria come l’ispirazione stessa che solo l’artista nella sua opera è permesso di congiungere, similmente come si raggiungono le sinapsi d’un cervello cui punti cruciali esso sa congiungere tramite l’arte del suo mestiere (con quella che si potrebbe chiamare «maniera»), altro che non nella vita reale. Perché chi rimproverebbe ad un <span class="author">Renoir</span>, dipingendo la sua giovane donna nel giardino [dell’«En été, etude»], che pur godesse della bellezza di un’altra?</p>
<p>3 – [Il viso:] Come avessero le distanze in esso non ancora raggiunte le loro giuste proporzioni finali, restavano ancora [una massa] palpabile. Non era quella bellezza che si sa ci affascina spontaneamente per sua grazia simmetrica di finitura (quasi glaciale come d’un porcellana fredda), ma davanti alla quale poi restiamo un po’ delusi perché non vi rimane niente per noi da compiere a finirla con degli ultimi tocchi immaginarii; e quel di lei essere «bisognoso» di noi, in deduzione a rovescio ci regalasse un tempo futuro, fittizio, al suo fianco [della fanciulla che lo porti]; o come percepissimo già un riflesso di quel dono finale che sa conciliarci con tutte le sue imperfezioni, e che cresce soltanto col tempo: cioè l’amore.</p>
[…] quello stato di intermedio che è terreno fertile per qualunque tipo di sviluppo e perciò utile alla creazione, come un grande artista [scrittore] è raro che nasce da una vita di totale povertà dove si vedesse di continuo costretto a combattersi per la sopravvivenza, ma è altrettanto raro che viene fuori da un ceto di estrema ricchezza rendendo fin da bambino l’ozio inutile ogni sforzo di [‘intromettersi’] nella vita, di cercarsi un posto suo da empiere.</p>
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<p>Infine, nel mio ricordo da quel incontro sopravvisse, presa il sopravvento sulle diverse oscillazioni incerti, la fanciulla dalle gambe lunghe e dalla vita un po’ goffa. Sebbene la nostra ragione sà di quanto ogni essere soffri attraverso una seconda visione la perdità di tante sue attrattive iniziali, ad essa sarebbe sempre rimasta quel mostruoso vantaggio segnatale dalla sua gioventù a determinare la visione di una possibile felicità, per me, al suo fianco; qualità quella che rendesse ferma al mare la sua barca, che sarebbe sempre spiccata tra le onde di un mare sommosso. Causa velata della mia predilezione per [del]le sue forme malferme che in sé stesse meglio esprimevano questo concetto.<br />
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg 1192w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-768x504.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-600x394.jpg 600w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-430x282.jpg 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-860x565.jpg 860w" sizes="(max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>his</span> character in the beginning was named “Allure” as a working title. For I asked myself what is an <em>allure</em>, and how would it influence on a character for the famous <span class="author">Chanel</span> perfume? As almost always I was inspired by some photo shooting by fashion photographer <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> and his intriguing — what Italians like to call “<em>inafferrabile</em>” — style.

After some first studies the <em>Signer</em> font was developed out of it and elaborated over a longer period of time before getting used also for some brand lettering studies.

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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg 1192w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-768x504.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-600x394.jpg 600w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-430x282.jpg 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-860x565.jpg 860w" sizes="(max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>his</span> character in the beginning was named “Allure” as a working title. For I asked myself what is an <em>allure</em>, and how would it influence on a character for the famous <span class="author">Chanel</span> perfume? As almost always I was inspired by some photo shooting by fashion photographer <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> and his intriguing — what Italians like to call “<em>inafferrabile</em>” — style.

After some first studies the <em>Signer</em> font was developed out of it and elaborated over a longer period of time before getting used also for some brand lettering studies.

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		<title>La Memoria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 06:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Talvolta la #memoria ci prescrive un’immagine così precisa che quando in un certo momento viene...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>alvolta</span> la <a href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/tag/memory/">#memoria</a> ci prescrive un’<em>immagine</em> così precisa che quando in un certo momento viene fuori, cioè quando è scatenata da un’ispirazione, e mettiamo giù una curva o ci espriamo in una frase con un certo seguito di parole, di espressioni, dobbiamo stare molto attento a non cambiare troppo facilmente alcuni elementi che alla prima vista ci possano sembrare strano o meno adatto. E soprattutto quando elaboriamo queste cose (il che dobbiamo fare per precisare, per togliergliene dell’inutile), di non perdere quella <i>sfumatura</i>, che di solito è neanche (o forse soprattutto) a noi permesso di vederci. [scorgerci]
<p>Così l’artista impara a scrutare con cautela, a palpare le sue stesse espressioni; intuire dove c’è una cosa da sostituire, da ripensare (memorizzare!), perché bisognava metterlo nel processo con velocità, per non disturbare il fluire del contesto; ma ugualmente a rispettare al massimo gli elementi riusciti in altrettanta velocità.</p>
<p>Ho sempre pensato che in pochi campi della creazione elementi come velocità e incredibile lentezza si incontrano a pari livello come nel disegnare caratteri per la stampa.<br />
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In quanto ai sensi sono sempre degli strumenti per spiegarci la realtà: quella in cui ci fanno mettere un passo davanti all’altro con le nostre gambe. E quando attraverso di essi ci mettiamo in contatto con una persona che in seguito ci è dato di amare, loro non sono in grado di distinguere il livello della loro percezione, nel momento decisivo: è la memoria che fa questo. Dunque non c’è amore senza il ricordo.</p>
<blockquote><p>La sua capellatura prima apparsami d’un’oro così scintillante, una massa compatta e lucida, si prosciugava come uno di quei sassolini, cui bellezza, tirati fuori d’acqua a guardarli meglio, si perde fra un’attimo.*</p></blockquote>
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<p>* Un riferimento alla famosa frase di <span class="author">Maurice Maeterlinck</span> tratta da <em>Le Trésor des humbles</em>, 1896 </p>
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		<title>La Superficie Magica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 06:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Quando un ritratto oppure il disegno di una lettera in noi, prima di evocare la...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">Q</span>uando</span> un ritratto oppure il disegno di una lettera in noi, prima di evocare la sensazione di essere una proiezione di cose e strutture, corpi, linee, spazi (in quanto loro rimangono chiaramente rintracciabili in essa), ne fanno un qualcos’altro, di diverso: ci presentano una «superficie magica».</p>
<p>Come in un ricordo d’una ragazza, della quale non fossimo riusciti a spiegarci il fascino, e la cui evidente bellezza non era costituita da alcun elemento <em>rintracciabile</em>, o per la sua relativa collocazione tra altri, come lo erano, per esempio, i capelli neri impressi sullo sfondo o le pur fini fattezze delle membra (come le mani cui dita dai lineamenti graziosi, tenendo in grembo un libro, volevano coprire o forse vivificare nel loro gioco un bacino dall’ossatura ancora fanciullesca che rendeva una leggera impressione di <em>«piattezza»</em>, causata dalle anche troppo rientranti rispetto al suo fisico intero, e che ce ne dava un cert’effetto di bidimensionalità: forse simile al tale che sente un animale selvaggio in cattura per la sua gabbia, contro cui sbarre si vede costretto, senza esaminare lo sfondo della sua prigione, a strofinare il pelo girandovene la fronte da un lato all’altro); ma in cui tutti i pregi, e persino i difetti<span class="note">1</span> facevano posto ad una materia <em>misteriosa</em>, indistinta, priva di qualsiasi struttura corporea e manifestantesi solamente sulla <em>superficie</em>, che forse semplicemente consisteva nel portare la sua gioventù – come le fosse un effimero velo fluttuante davanti la bocca – a «fior di labbra».</p>
<blockquote><p>So that like in a Degas pastel the structure of the surface became more important than the structure of its composite objects.
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<p>1 – In certi corpi giovini sembra che l’occhio perdoni di tutto (persino le apparenti malformità) perché sospetti che in loro la natura seguisse un suo <em>«piano»</em> di bellezza, qualunque ne sia l’intento, con più precisione e con una certa <em>acutezza</em>.</p>
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		<title>La Conchiglia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2016 14:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I suoi erano tratti tipici del volto di giovane donna russa, cioè gli zigomi teneramente...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">I</span></span> suoi erano tratti tipici del volto di giovane donna russa, cioè gli zigomi teneramente alzati, una fronte tonda ma piccola, sfuggente, i cui lineamenti si susseguivano l’un l’altro senza interrompersi in nessuna della sue parti.<span class="note">1</span> Una ciocca separatasi sperduta dalla capigliatura bruna compatta, scintillante sotto i raggi del sole che entravano dal finestrino, si rotolò dietro il semicerchio della linea dell’orecchio. Sul quale stesso sotto una pelle liscia, perlacea, quasi marmorea, conseguivano in miniatura quelle alterazioni topografici, e donde l’occhio intraprendeva viaggi piacevoli senza stazioni, traversando da cime in distesa, senza rendersi conto del graduale cambiamento delle sue terre, – per poi rifluire in quelle della gota; come in <em>quelle forme</em>, avviluppate su se stesse, quali evocava, anzi di cui tutta la sua testa ne dava la sensazione: quelle di una <em>conchiglia</em> (una di quelle grandi dei mari del sud, rosee, vitrei dentro); e come tale, sul suo lato interno, essa stessa pareva fosse formata di un liquido, continuo e unificante: in nulla comparabile al volto di una donna più matura, seppure bello (e che avevo per confronto al suo fianco), in cui tutte le parti si erano già <em>divise</em> in zone separate (ed immovibili tra di loro), riconoscibili per quella del naso, della bocca, degli occhi ecc., e che mancavano di quella <em>fluidità</em> sorprendente.</p>
<p>L’indice spalancato sopra la semi palla della gota richiudeva in sé a metà (gesto che commischiava una certa inclinazione alla pensosità con una timida gentilezza: come fossero quei tratti di carattere in lei, tutti introversi, ma <em>fluidi</em> gli uni fra gli altri – forse non ancora del tutto sviluppati [cioè incontrastati dalle amarezze della vita] – un rispecchio delle fattezze delle sue forme esteriori) quella perla che era il suo cranio, fatte tutte e due di quelle parti come di un solo pezzo fuori dal marmo.</p>
<p>Quelle mani pertanto avevano l’aria di essere i curatori della sua bellezza, facendo uguale a dei lavoratori, ben formati e diligenti, cui però fosse una cosa indecente darsi troppo agli occhi [‘se si mettessero troppo in vista’] per le loro stesse qualità.</p>
<blockquote><p>E se ero scontento di sera era perché volevo, ma non potevo, tra le mie mani voltare quella conchiglia, la sua bellezza <span class="quote_emphasize">eternizzata</span>.
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<p>1 – Oppure, come in quei disegni egnimatici del <span class="author">Escher</span> dove l’occhio segue le scale che da nessuna parte finiscono se non in se stesse, si seguiva le concavità ininterrotte e che non davano segno di invertirsi. Outlines of characters were not perfectly digitally “polished”, they show edgy details on curve turning points and charming details.</p>
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