Links to sites which are awesome :)

http://www.typegoodness.com/2009/11/alphabet/  

 http://www.typegoodness.com/2010/11/hand-lettered-maps/ http://www.typegoodness.com/category/packaging/

Research for Illustration. Michael Albert.

Albert , an artist involved in extreme collage. Studied in New York University and proceeded with the collages that got him famous with the cereal boxes what he calls 'cerealism'. His themes consist of many; historical, biblical, literary, musical, lyrical, mathematical and geographical. His university life he collected leftover tickets and labels and this is where his curiosity started.

His cereal boxes contained 500 cereal boxes per collage which got labelled as 'Modern Pop Artwork'. His first book was released in 2008 called 'An Artist's America'.

References used: http://www.cerealism.com/default.aspx?pageId=1

Chokolit Research

Chokolit Company by Louis Barnett, created the supermarket chains from the age of 14! He named it 'Chokolit' due to him being dyslexic and couldn't spell (which is quite sweet, excuse the pun)


Born and bred in Staffordshire and got himself certified with  Callebaut Chocolate Academy. http://www.callebaut.com/ (a Belgium company that are the main suppliers for chocolate.)

Barnett is now 19 years old. check out his website http://www.louisbarnett.co.uk/louis_story/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iEDN9kGoTU&feature=player_embedded#at=238

Gill Sans and Helvetica...

I learnt today that Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was indeed involved in paraphernalia behaviour. Also his sculptures and typeface of Gill Sans appeared in the Church of England. Eric Gill took Edward Johnson's famous typeface from the London Underground and used (based upon) this for Gill Sans! Thus went to use Gill Sans in British Railway in printed output such as their timetables and also was used in the BBC logo. However I still found that I the only thing I like from Gill Sans typeface is the letter 'g' where upon I thus discovered that the letter 'a' is hideously horrible being top heavy and totally over balanced as a letter form.

Less with the negativity, I found that Helvetica was first named Neue Haas Grotesk (after the Grotesque period in  the late nineteenth century) which made me smile with the name of Grotesk for a typeface...

Research for 'Graphic Design and Typography' - Beatrice L.Warde

Looking at the type face Garamond and how this relates to Beatrice L. Warde.

(American 1900-1969) Warde noticed in her research conducted into the history of typefaces that a French printer Jean Jannon had re-created and used similar characteristics to Garamond (1580-1635) was for two hundred years named wrongly as Garamond. The typeface was thus found to be Jean Jannon's, revealed to the world in 1927.
So my research took me to Beatrice L. Warde where I thus learnt that she married designer Frederic Warde, Director of printing at the Princeton University Press (1925)

"Clearly polished window" which Beatrice L. Warde believed ideas through typography could be communicated.

I imagine when she married someone into the world of printing, she must of had a fortunate escape from the 1900's, and not becoming the 90% of women who were for the use of domestic service. Beatrice Warde, in my opinion, had a lucky escape!

references used:
http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/printers/warde.html
http://stbride.org/friends/conference/twentiethcenturygraphiccommunication/BeatriceWarde.html
http://www.nenne.com/typography/bw1.html
http://gmunch.home.pipeline.com/typo-L/misc/ward.htm
http://www.guevaradesign.com/garamond/