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		<title>The Great Magazine Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 06:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typeface Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symmetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vogue Italy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia.jpg" 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/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia.jpg 2000w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia-768x576.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia-1536x1152.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">L</span>ately</span> I’ve been thinking about what has become of the great fashion magazines of our time. Sure they still exist, but rarely am I inclined to pop into one of Verona's <em>Giornalai</em> and buy one. There were times when it seemed impossible for me to do any kind of work without having at least a double-page spread of <span class="author">Vogue Italia</span> next to my computer on my desk. Like the Bible for a priest on the altar, those double-page spreads with photos of <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> and the beautiful young <a href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/essay/il-concetto-della-bellezza/" title="Il Concetto della Bellezza"><span class="author">#Natalia Vodianova</a> made me hold my breath and dive into a kind of dreamland where my creations allowed me to get closer to her or whatever my imagination was planting on her beautiful face.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>



<blockquote>The beautiful young Natalia Vodianova made me hold my breath and dive into a kind of dreamland…</blockquote>



There was also the aspect of the magazine layout that secretly played an important role in this game of fantasy. These pages were works of art, ‘<em>Compositions!</em>’ as an old friend of mine (a painter) used to exclaim. The text was carefully matched to the content of the images, and sometimes fonts were even created to reflect a particular aspect of a designer’s work or to enhance the way photos were composed next to each other.

This is a flashback to one of my typefaces called <em>Simmetria</em>, based on an idea by <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> and part of a page he masterfully composed in <span class="author">Vogue Italia</span>. And it makes me think back to that time and wonder if the next time I happen to be standing in front of a <em>Giornalaio</em>, I’ll stick around and buy one.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> | Art Direction]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia.jpg" 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/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia.jpg 2000w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia-768x576.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Simmetria-Vogue-Italia-1536x1152.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">L</span>ately</span> I’ve been thinking about what has become of the great fashion magazines of our time. Sure they still exist, but rarely am I inclined to pop into one of Verona's <em>Giornalai</em> and buy one. There were times when it seemed impossible for me to do any kind of work without having at least a double-page spread of <span class="author">Vogue Italia</span> next to my computer on my desk. Like the Bible for a priest on the altar, those double-page spreads with photos of <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> and the beautiful young <a href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/essay/il-concetto-della-bellezza/" title="Il Concetto della Bellezza"><span class="author">#Natalia Vodianova</a> made me hold my breath and dive into a kind of dreamland where my creations allowed me to get closer to her or whatever my imagination was planting on her beautiful face.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>



<blockquote>The beautiful young Natalia Vodianova made me hold my breath and dive into a kind of dreamland…</blockquote>



There was also the aspect of the magazine layout that secretly played an important role in this game of fantasy. These pages were works of art, ‘<em>Compositions!</em>’ as an old friend of mine (a painter) used to exclaim. The text was carefully matched to the content of the images, and sometimes fonts were even created to reflect a particular aspect of a designer’s work or to enhance the way photos were composed next to each other.

This is a flashback to one of my typefaces called <em>Simmetria</em>, based on an idea by <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> and part of a page he masterfully composed in <span class="author">Vogue Italia</span>. And it makes me think back to that time and wonder if the next time I happen to be standing in front of a <em>Giornalaio</em>, I’ll stick around and buy one.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> | Art Direction]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Ein Blick auf den Bücherkosmos der Stamperia Valdonega</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[elementi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Typeface Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bodoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centaur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garamond]]></category>
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		<title>Magazine Double-Pages from My University Archives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[elementi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Experimental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-scaled.jpg" 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/2021/08/layladylay_1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-2048x1369.jpg 2048w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">I</span></span> remember cutting out these beautiful cursive text blocks in <em>Garamond (No. 3)</em> from photographic enlargements made with a reproduction photo camera. It took me a while to arrive at these seemingly simple layout solutions. Purely composing like a painter, with text instead of color and form. The image overlaying text blocks were enlarged and developed on transparent film material, which I carefully mounted over the color photocopies of those wonderful <span class="author">F. C. Gundlach</span> photographs I had found in an antiquarian bookstore (and with whose long-gone beauties I had literally fallen in love).

<blockquote>In those days, there was a lot of work with scissors and montage, which in a way forced us to think about typography differently than we do today.</blockquote>

In those days, there was a lot of work with scissors and montage, which in a way forced us to think about typography differently than we do today. This had a lasting impact on my way of perceiving sets of text, which in turn seemed to be woven from excellent (phototypesetting) typefaces as if into a tapestry. Flipping through my old <span class="author">Daniel Berkeley Updike</span> copy of <em>Printing Types, Their History of Forms and Use</em> recently, I suddenly realized that what I was doing resembled what the old printers of the 15th century produced with text as form, compact and as the purest element of composition.

Only later did I begin to discover what <span class="author">Brodovitch</span> and <span class="author">Liberman</span> were doing for the famous fashion magazines. I'm still very interested in magazine layout. Although, well, I would do it differently than what I see in most magazines today. I would go back to composing with text....

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">F. C. Gundlach</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Guido Löhrer</span> | Photography (reproduction)
]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-scaled.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/2021/08/layladylay_1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-2048x1369.jpg 2048w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/layladylay_1-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">I</span></span> remember cutting out these beautiful cursive text blocks in <em>Garamond (No. 3)</em> from photographic enlargements made with a reproduction photo camera. It took me a while to arrive at these seemingly simple layout solutions. Purely composing like a painter, with text instead of color and form. The image overlaying text blocks were enlarged and developed on transparent film material, which I carefully mounted over the color photocopies of those wonderful <span class="author">F. C. Gundlach</span> photographs I had found in an antiquarian bookstore (and with whose long-gone beauties I had literally fallen in love).

<blockquote>In those days, there was a lot of work with scissors and montage, which in a way forced us to think about typography differently than we do today.</blockquote>

In those days, there was a lot of work with scissors and montage, which in a way forced us to think about typography differently than we do today. This had a lasting impact on my way of perceiving sets of text, which in turn seemed to be woven from excellent (phototypesetting) typefaces as if into a tapestry. Flipping through my old <span class="author">Daniel Berkeley Updike</span> copy of <em>Printing Types, Their History of Forms and Use</em> recently, I suddenly realized that what I was doing resembled what the old printers of the 15th century produced with text as form, compact and as the purest element of composition.

Only later did I begin to discover what <span class="author">Brodovitch</span> and <span class="author">Liberman</span> were doing for the famous fashion magazines. I'm still very interested in magazine layout. Although, well, I would do it differently than what I see in most magazines today. I would go back to composing with text....

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">F. C. Gundlach</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Guido Löhrer</span> | Photography (reproduction)
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		<title>From a time when…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elegance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woman]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-scaled.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/2021/08/seVouer_1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-768x511.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-scaled-400x265.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">…</span></span> we were fashion editor, casting director, photographer, art director, typographer and type designer all rolled into one.

The story behind the “blue” photography was quite unusual and perhaps worth telling. I intended to photograph scenes of extreme elegance, and of course in Paris. But as a student I had no money, so I decided to develop a concept to photograph fashion on real women in the street. A kind of street photography, but with the ambition to make something very elegant. 

So I spent 2 weeks in Paris (I settled on a campsite near the Bois de Bologne) looking for beautiful, well-dressed women. An endeavor that was not as easy as I had imagined. In order to take these kinds of paparazzi shots without a model, I had to remain unidentified. I used a 500mm telephoto lens with mirrors that allowed me to shoot handheld without attracting too much attention. For this, I used high-sensitivity 3200 ASA film material. In this way, I could shoot by hand and achieve exposure times of 1/250s or less to maintain focus. With a motor shutter, I took more than 600 shots (which was quite a lot at the time, since I was using analog film). Much of this footage was trash, but occasionally something really beautiful happened.

<blockquote>After I took a series of shots, the beautiful lady began to notice my uninvited presence. But perhaps she also saw in what state of arousal I was. […] She let me finish my work with indulgence.</blockquote>

However, the most amazing and exciting scene was this beautiful young lady sitting in a sidewalk cafe (I don't remember where) behind the window, probably talking to a friend. I was so mesmerized by her beauty that I forgot everything that was happening around me. I stopped almost in the middle of a chaotic street with parked cars, passengers around me complaining.... After I took a series of shots, the beautiful lady (although I was at some distance) began to notice my uninvited presence. But perhaps she also saw in what state of arousal I was. For she gave me a beautiful but barely noticeable smile and continued talking as if nothing had happened. She let me finish my work with indulgence. 

Later, in the dark room, I developed the coarse-grained film on hard photographic paper (AGFA barrit no 5 graduation) to make the grain stand out even more and achieve an almost abstract pointillism effect. Further, using a special chemical treatment, I changed the silver tones to a dark blue and experimented with it for almost 2 weeks. (At that time, you could hardly enter the lab at the university without running into me there.) In the process, I noticed that the grain was no longer as even. So I bought retouching paints in all shades of blue to gray, and with a fine hair brush I filled in the holes, at the same time scraping free the paper white in the condensations with a medical scalpel. This took me another 2 weeks. Extremely concentrated, almost meditative work. But I was completely in love with this beautiful face.

I decided to redraw a classic fashion typeface, <em>Caslon No. 540</em> from <span class="author">Linotype</span>, by hand to accompany my photographs. I enlarged the letters and drew them on tracing paper, which I placed over them. In this way I achieved a more beautiful and graceful typeface, especially by making the hairlines thinner. Then the letter images were zoomed out again with a reproduction camera and mounted on a transparent film, which was then deducted as contact under vacuum. The resulting text blocks or words were also exposed on AGFA No. 5 to achieve the absolute black on a brilliant white. According to my previous conceptual studies, I wanted the individual words (seVouer) to appear “cut out” of a text block surrounding. So I intentionally added partially truncated letters of the following or preceding words of an imaginary sentence.

One could say that the whole process was a very personal result of “<em>se Vouer</em>”: to dedicate oneself to something close to the border of self-sacrifice in order to represent beauty.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Stefan Seifert</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Guido Löhrer</span> | Photography (reproduction)
Unknown | Model
<span class="author">Beatrix Herre</span> | Model (legs)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-scaled.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/2021/08/seVouer_1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-768x511.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/seVouer_1-scaled-400x265.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">…</span></span> we were fashion editor, casting director, photographer, art director, typographer and type designer all rolled into one.

The story behind the “blue” photography was quite unusual and perhaps worth telling. I intended to photograph scenes of extreme elegance, and of course in Paris. But as a student I had no money, so I decided to develop a concept to photograph fashion on real women in the street. A kind of street photography, but with the ambition to make something very elegant. 

So I spent 2 weeks in Paris (I settled on a campsite near the Bois de Bologne) looking for beautiful, well-dressed women. An endeavor that was not as easy as I had imagined. In order to take these kinds of paparazzi shots without a model, I had to remain unidentified. I used a 500mm telephoto lens with mirrors that allowed me to shoot handheld without attracting too much attention. For this, I used high-sensitivity 3200 ASA film material. In this way, I could shoot by hand and achieve exposure times of 1/250s or less to maintain focus. With a motor shutter, I took more than 600 shots (which was quite a lot at the time, since I was using analog film). Much of this footage was trash, but occasionally something really beautiful happened.

<blockquote>After I took a series of shots, the beautiful lady began to notice my uninvited presence. But perhaps she also saw in what state of arousal I was. […] She let me finish my work with indulgence.</blockquote>

However, the most amazing and exciting scene was this beautiful young lady sitting in a sidewalk cafe (I don't remember where) behind the window, probably talking to a friend. I was so mesmerized by her beauty that I forgot everything that was happening around me. I stopped almost in the middle of a chaotic street with parked cars, passengers around me complaining.... After I took a series of shots, the beautiful lady (although I was at some distance) began to notice my uninvited presence. But perhaps she also saw in what state of arousal I was. For she gave me a beautiful but barely noticeable smile and continued talking as if nothing had happened. She let me finish my work with indulgence. 

Later, in the dark room, I developed the coarse-grained film on hard photographic paper (AGFA barrit no 5 graduation) to make the grain stand out even more and achieve an almost abstract pointillism effect. Further, using a special chemical treatment, I changed the silver tones to a dark blue and experimented with it for almost 2 weeks. (At that time, you could hardly enter the lab at the university without running into me there.) In the process, I noticed that the grain was no longer as even. So I bought retouching paints in all shades of blue to gray, and with a fine hair brush I filled in the holes, at the same time scraping free the paper white in the condensations with a medical scalpel. This took me another 2 weeks. Extremely concentrated, almost meditative work. But I was completely in love with this beautiful face.

I decided to redraw a classic fashion typeface, <em>Caslon No. 540</em> from <span class="author">Linotype</span>, by hand to accompany my photographs. I enlarged the letters and drew them on tracing paper, which I placed over them. In this way I achieved a more beautiful and graceful typeface, especially by making the hairlines thinner. Then the letter images were zoomed out again with a reproduction camera and mounted on a transparent film, which was then deducted as contact under vacuum. The resulting text blocks or words were also exposed on AGFA No. 5 to achieve the absolute black on a brilliant white. According to my previous conceptual studies, I wanted the individual words (seVouer) to appear “cut out” of a text block surrounding. So I intentionally added partially truncated letters of the following or preceding words of an imaginary sentence.

One could say that the whole process was a very personal result of “<em>se Vouer</em>”: to dedicate oneself to something close to the border of self-sacrifice in order to represent beauty.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Stefan Seifert</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Guido Löhrer</span> | Photography (reproduction)
Unknown | Model
<span class="author">Beatrix Herre</span> | Model (legs)]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Working on Girl Editor for a Balenciaga lettering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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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" loading="lazy" 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" loading="lazy" 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>

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<span class="author">Henri Cartier-Bresson</span> | Photography (small)]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Typefaces and Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 17:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Experimental]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Typeface Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bodoni]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh.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/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh.jpg 2379w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-768x512.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 2379px) 100vw, 2379px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>his</span> comes a little late. But I guess it is never too late to say thank you to one of the greatest fashion photographers in history who has passed away this year. What you see here is a typeface called <em>Next</em> which was part of my researches for <span class="author">Vogue Italy</span> in the very late nineties just before the switch of the millenium. And it clearly breathes the spirit of those times.

As a photographer friend of mine uses to say it is not only that a type designer maybe inspired by photography: it is also photography who can take advantage of typographic work opposed to, or better mixed with it. I am sure in this case I couldn’t hardly add something to the brilliance of <span class="author">Peter Lindbergh</span>. Nevertheless, I am proud that my creations of that period were liked by Italian art director <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> and later on have been admired by some influencer magazine art director in Germany, as well.

The character itself, apart from clearly aiming at futuristic tendencies of that particular time period, was supposed to also keep some of the fashion like classicist taste which we know to find in <em>Bodoni</em> and <em>Didot</em>. The experimental way of interpreting this fact, though, is that hairlines of <em>Next</em> were introduced in other places, for example in parts of their asymmetric serifs.

Certainly, a typeface like this today has less if any importance, but it is just nice to remember some of the inspiration that drove both of us. The type designer and the photographer himself. Thank you for this wonderful inspiration and, in general, for your awesome oeuvre of decades, Mr. Lindbergh!

<a class="read more" style="border: none;" title="Strom der Entwicklung" href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/essay/strom-der-entwicklung/"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i> Read also [German and Italian language]</a>

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Peter Lindbergh</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Vogue Italia</span> | Editor]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh.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/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh.jpg 2379w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-768x512.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Next-Lindbergh-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 2379px) 100vw, 2379px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>his</span> comes a little late. But I guess it is never too late to say thank you to one of the greatest fashion photographers in history who has passed away this year. What you see here is a typeface called <em>Next</em> which was part of my researches for <span class="author">Vogue Italy</span> in the very late nineties just before the switch of the millenium. And it clearly breathes the spirit of those times.

As a photographer friend of mine uses to say it is not only that a type designer maybe inspired by photography: it is also photography who can take advantage of typographic work opposed to, or better mixed with it. I am sure in this case I couldn’t hardly add something to the brilliance of <span class="author">Peter Lindbergh</span>. Nevertheless, I am proud that my creations of that period were liked by Italian art director <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> and later on have been admired by some influencer magazine art director in Germany, as well.

The character itself, apart from clearly aiming at futuristic tendencies of that particular time period, was supposed to also keep some of the fashion like classicist taste which we know to find in <em>Bodoni</em> and <em>Didot</em>. The experimental way of interpreting this fact, though, is that hairlines of <em>Next</em> were introduced in other places, for example in parts of their asymmetric serifs.

Certainly, a typeface like this today has less if any importance, but it is just nice to remember some of the inspiration that drove both of us. The type designer and the photographer himself. Thank you for this wonderful inspiration and, in general, for your awesome oeuvre of decades, Mr. Lindbergh!

<a class="read more" style="border: none;" title="Strom der Entwicklung" href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/essay/strom-der-entwicklung/"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i> Read also [German and Italian language]</a>

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Peter Lindbergh</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Vogue Italia</span> | Editor]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Strom der Entwicklung</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wenn ich ein Buch aufschlage, das über die unendlich lang scheinende Geschichte der Druckschriften berichtet,...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">W</span>enn</span> ich ein Buch aufschlage, das über die unendlich lang scheinende Geschichte der Druckschriften berichtet, so erfasst mich wie ein Schauer, welchen Wandlungen diese Geschichte unterworfen ist. Der Wechsel der Standpunkte, ihrer Menschen und ihrer Ergebnisse. Und es gelingt mir nicht ein präzises Bild davon in Worte zu fassen, wenn nicht das von Wellen, ihrem auf und ab, dem Aufschlagen von Gischt an den Felsen einer Küste oder dem Abflauen in ruhiger See. Auch ich habe die Gewissheit, dass schon in meinem kurzen Leben eine Phase dieser geschichtlichen Veränderung auf und ab gegangen ist. Die weißen Schaumkronen im Aufkommen der digitalen Schriften und der hitzigen Diskussionen um sie sind verschwunden, ruhig aufgenommen im ruhigen Ab- und Zufluss der Geschichte der Buchstaben.</p>
<blockquote><p>Und doch erkenne ich in der Ferne, dass ich dabei auch der Beobachter meines eigenen Lebens bin, und ich frage mich, ob das Schlagen und Beruhigen der Wellen, der sanft auf ein bestimmtes Ziel zufließende Strom, nicht doch nur der Strom meiner eigenen Entwicklung ist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ich erinnere mich noch an die Zeit vor dem vehementen Ausbruchs der <em>völligen digitalen Periode</em>. Meine ersten Buchstaben, deren Nachahmung ich anstrebte, waren die einer <em>Garamond</em>-Kursiv eines Paris-Bildbandes aus den Bücherregalen meines Zuhauses. Nicht dass mich dessen Bilder überhaupt nicht interessierten, wichtiger aber waren mir die kleinen schwarzen Zeichen. Ich erkannte in ihnen die schwungvollen Rundungen, die etwas von der Form eines Frauenbeins besaßen oder den Kurven eines Rockes der im Wind flattert. Auf den großen weißen Seiten auf dem matt bestrichenen Papier waren sie majestätisch anzusehen. Die Kapitel dieses Buches hatten zu Anfangs nur diese weißen Seiten mit ein oder zwei Wörtern darauf. Denn der schönste Buchstabe kann nicht zur Entfaltung kommen ohne den Weißraum um ihn herum!</p>
<p>Die Buchstaben hatten für mich etwas Ewiges. Sie waren schließlich <em>gedruckt</em>. Die Schwierigkeit, die es darstellte, sie aus dem weißen Papier zu entheben und sie für meine Zwecke zu verwenden war reizvoll. Vielleicht hatte es auch etwas von einem Diebstahl: wie jemand der sich, mit der Fackel in der Hand, in eine heilige Grabkammer schleicht um das kostbarste zu entwenden. Wie konnte man einen gedruckten Buchstaben entwenden? So schleppte ich dieses überdimensionale, übrigens durchaus darüber hinaus nicht besonders kostbare Werk in die Reproduktionskammer der Universität. Ich machte Photos von Buchstaben. Das war ein köstlicher Akt. Die ribbeligen Kanten der vergrößerten Gebilde verliehen dem „Diebstahl“ erst ihre Würze! Das photographische Papier war elfenbeinfarbig, das Schwarz tief.</p>
<p>Ich hatte die Idee, aus dieser Schrift ein Wort zu setzen. <em>se Vouer</em> sollte der Titel einiger Seiten eines gedachten Modemagazins sein. Hinter dem ‘<em>V</em>’ gab es einen größeren Abstand, der Buchstabe war kaum unterschnitten, wie es damals in vielen Bleisatz-Versionen dieses Schriftklassikers der Fall war. Ich glaube diese Buchstabenkombination hat mich bleibend geprägt. Ich habe mir große Mühe gegeben, den Abstand in meinem Wort exakt so wiederzugeben wie ich ihn im Original vorfand. Denn es erschien mir fast ein Frevel dieses kleine geneigte ‘<em>o</em>’ so unter den Ast des ‘<em>V</em>’s zu klemmen, wie es heute leider nicht mehr anders anzutreffen ist. Mein kleines Wort hatte „Luft zu atmen“, königlich wie das zart und elegant auslaufende ‘<em>V</em>’, – dieser symbolträchtige Letter, wie ich Jahre später bestätigt wissen sollte! – den Raum einnahm. Die schmale Zeichnung der Buchstabenkörper war im übrigen akzentuiert durch einen großzügigen Rhythmus, jeder Letter hatte seinen gebührlichen Raum ohne aber gesperrt zu wirken, wie die Typographen sagen, das bedeutet ohne den zusätzlich zwischen den Lettern zugefügten Zwischenraum. Ich fühlte mich in meinem Vorhaben mehr als bestätigt. Dieses Wort war wunderschön, es hatte meine Erwartungen nicht enttäuscht. Es war etwas ganz besonderes, meine Liebe zu den eleganten Buchstaben war entflammt. In der Mitte einer weißen Seite, wieder im ganzen reproduziert auf dem photographischen Papier wirkte es herrlich! Das war mein erstes Abenteuer und ich muss sagen, dass bis heute die kursiven Schriften eine große Anziehungskraft auf mich ausüben. Dabei eine <em>Garamond</em> als erstes Modell zu haben war sicherlich ein guter Beginn.</p>
<p>Schon bald bemerkte ich, dass eine schöne Frau auf einem Bild, ein schönes Kleid, zusammen mit meinen Buchstaben eine schöne Einheit hervorzurufen vermochten.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ben presto mi resi conto che una bella donna con un vestito splendido poteva formare un insieme armonioso con le mie lettere.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mit den Jahren verliert man leider etwas von der Ehrfurcht, mit der ich damals vor einem Werbeplakat, vielleicht in Schwarz-Weiß, stehen konnte, das eine wunderschöne Frau zeigte, deren Profil mit den weißen Linien der negativ eingespiegelten Buchstaben die Töne des Papiers in ein sanftes Wechselspiel tauchte. Was mir heute als allzu selbstverständlich erscheint war damals noch das unerhörte Treffen zweier unterschiedlicher Ebenen, die vor meinen Augen zu einem Bild verschmolzen. Das Abbild der Natur (in seiner nobelsten und feinsten Ausprägung!) zusammen mit den gezeichneten Kanten und Kurven, die die Buchstaben hervorrufen. Ich war noch weit davon entfernt zu verstehen, wer diesen Buchstaben gezeichnet hatte, wie er entworfen wurde. Ich fand mich damit ab – wie übrigens wohl die meisten Menschen –, dass er einfach da war. Seine selbstverständliche Gültigkeit in genau dieser Form und in keiner anderen war atemberaubend. Ich ging herum, oder fuhr mit dem Fahrrad durch Paris, und was ich machte, waren Photos von Photos mit Buchstaben! Es erschien mir und erscheint mir heute noch als eine höhere Ebene, das Bild mit der Schrift vereinigt zu sehen. Jede Art von Dreidimensionalität erschien mir überflüssig, ja sogar entwertend. Jeder Buchstabe ist ein zweidimensionales Gebilde, ein Nicht-Gegenstand, eine positiv oder negativ herausgeschnittene, gelöste Form. Bis heute habe ich eine ganz natürliche Abneigung dagegen, sie mit einer Farbe auszustatten. Ein Buchstabe ist weiß oder schwarz.</p>
<blockquote><p>Per me una lettera è piuttosto la negazione della terza dimensione, è la forma di un pensiero, di una passione, senza colore, senza profondità in senso materiale. Ho una certa riluttanza, che mi sembra naturale, a darle colore. Una lettera è o bianca o nera.</p></blockquote>
<p>Es scheint mir fast so, als ob die weißen Buchstaben in einem Bild, es aus dem einfachen Verhältnis von Format zum Inhalt befreien. Die Photographie an sich ist das Abbild einer <em>empfundenen</em> Realität, doch es bleibt durch seine Ränder immer noch greifbar, ist ein Objekt. Erst die noblen Lettern die ihre Formen teilen entheben es seiner einfachen Dimension. Das Auge vermag immer wieder vom Inhalt des Bildes zurückkehren auf die Formen der Lettern, wird zerstreut und kann so vergessen, dass es sich nur um eine Photographie handelt. Die Gedanken und Gefühle des Photographen entheben sich Ihrer ‘Objekt’ivität, die beiden Ebenen verschmelzen zu einem Ausdruck der Phantasie, unverrückbar manifestiert in den Tönen des Papiers und doch flatterhaft wie die Phantasie selbst. Die Buchstaben sind das fehlende Glied zu einem dreigeteilten Spiel: Objekt, Ewigkeit und Betrachter.</p>
<blockquote><p>Il profilo della donna affondava naturalmente nei toni grigi della carta stampata. Le lettere aggiungevano eternità. E così la coppia ha lasciato che l’osservatore potesse unirsi a loro.</p></blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2017 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>The Simmetria Fonts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2017 08:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Experimental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typeface Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Line]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Strings-long.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span>s</span> I no longer regularly follow <span class="author">Vogue Italy</span> for quite a time now I only got to know casually and with some delay what big changes have been going on there. <span class="author">Franca Sozzani</span> the world famous and glamorous (at least this was also my first impression of her when I saw her illuminating figure for the first time in the floors of <span class="author">Condé Nast</span>) fashion editor has <em>disappeared</em>. At least, that is how it would be called in Italian language: synonym for death. And with her, or a few months later, also <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> no longer is the art director of the magazine. I have no idea why nor didn’t I succeed in finding out anything about the reasons in the world wide web. Strange. Most probably they only wanted to give the magazine in troubled digital times a new fresh look or maybe a last chance to hold up against the market.

Sure, I am not the right person to discuss decisions like that. But I have always considered Luca Stoppini to be one of the last great magazine art directors in the tradition of <span class="author">Alexey Brodovitch</span><span class="note">*</span>. In the sense of always searching for a striking <em>point of view</em>, the astonishing above the banal solutions. When we met in the years immediately before 2000 it was his idea of doing something with particular shaped characters (fonts) which brought me in.

One of his favorites of this time seemed to be the experiments with very elongated letter forms. Things similar to what the Russian <em>futurists</em> had done in the first half of the past century. I loved it very much and without saying was very proud of being invited into his office in order to draw and create those fonts. One of the results was <em>Simmetria</em> which is shown here.

&nbsp;

<hr />

&nbsp;

*Brodovitch has been, among other things, a quarter of a century the creative head of <span class="author">Harper’s Bazaar</span>. And, indeed, he was famous for his mercilessness to not let pass anything under his direction that could even slightly be suspected of being trivial or without a particular point of view. As a side note it is interesting that he also experimented with typeface design from time to time, although in another direction.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Strings-long.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span>s</span> I no longer regularly follow <span class="author">Vogue Italy</span> for quite a time now I only got to know casually and with some delay what big changes have been going on there. <span class="author">Franca Sozzani</span> the world famous and glamorous (at least this was also my first impression of her when I saw her illuminating figure for the first time in the floors of <span class="author">Condé Nast</span>) fashion editor has <em>disappeared</em>. At least, that is how it would be called in Italian language: synonym for death. And with her, or a few months later, also <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> no longer is the art director of the magazine. I have no idea why nor didn’t I succeed in finding out anything about the reasons in the world wide web. Strange. Most probably they only wanted to give the magazine in troubled digital times a new fresh look or maybe a last chance to hold up against the market.

Sure, I am not the right person to discuss decisions like that. But I have always considered Luca Stoppini to be one of the last great magazine art directors in the tradition of <span class="author">Alexey Brodovitch</span><span class="note">*</span>. In the sense of always searching for a striking <em>point of view</em>, the astonishing above the banal solutions. When we met in the years immediately before 2000 it was his idea of doing something with particular shaped characters (fonts) which brought me in.

One of his favorites of this time seemed to be the experiments with very elongated letter forms. Things similar to what the Russian <em>futurists</em> had done in the first half of the past century. I loved it very much and without saying was very proud of being invited into his office in order to draw and create those fonts. One of the results was <em>Simmetria</em> which is shown here.

&nbsp;

<hr />

&nbsp;

*Brodovitch has been, among other things, a quarter of a century the creative head of <span class="author">Harper’s Bazaar</span>. And, indeed, he was famous for his mercilessness to not let pass anything under his direction that could even slightly be suspected of being trivial or without a particular point of view. As a side note it is interesting that he also experimented with typeface design from time to time, although in another direction.]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Unique</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23.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/2016/10/Unique_23.png 2409w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-768x414.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-460x248.png 460w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-960x517.png 960w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-600x323.png 600w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-430x232.png 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-860x463.png 860w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-1800x970.png 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 2409px) 100vw, 2409px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>ut</span> of my researches initiated by <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> for <em>Vogue Italy</em> magazine evolved later a series of typefaces and graphics that treat the theme of ‘Silhouettes’ and lines as was once the center of <em>couture dressing art</em>.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">[Dior Atelier]</span> · <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> | Photography]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23.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/2016/10/Unique_23.png 2409w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-768x414.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-460x248.png 460w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-960x517.png 960w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-600x323.png 600w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-430x232.png 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-860x463.png 860w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Unique_23-1800x970.png 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 2409px) 100vw, 2409px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>ut</span> of my researches initiated by <span class="author">Luca Stoppini</span> for <em>Vogue Italy</em> magazine evolved later a series of typefaces and graphics that treat the theme of ‘Silhouettes’ and lines as was once the center of <em>couture dressing art</em>.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">[Dior Atelier]</span> · <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> | Photography]]></content:encoded>
					
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