Twenty Typefaces that Changed the World - book design assignment
The brief for this assignment was to use content from the book 'Fifty typefaces that changed the world', by John L. Waters, and design a book called 'Twenty typefaces that changed the world'. I curated 19 typefaces from the source material, and then created a specimen for a twentieth typeface, designed after 2011.
I've used the specimen as a foil for the book. Whereas the book is informational, logically laid out and predictable, the specimen is unexpected, whimsical and a little more expressive. While both use the limited colour palette of black, white, grey and burgundy, the specimen incorporates illustration and pattern, and uses reversed out text.
For the specimen I used the concept of a tarot deck to emphasise the magical qualities suggested by the typeface, Le Murmure (with ideas of transfiguration and the unexpected). The illustrations I created for the mock tarot cards combine alternate glyphs from Le Murmure with centuries old imagery from the Tarot de Marseille deck.
The book and the specimen are held together, back to back, by a belly band, that is attached with an origami-style fastening on the specimen side.
