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Type in Trier: the Relationship Between Letters and the Oldest City in Germany A Q&A How did you become involved in doing research? I was unsure if research could be applied to a project outside of the sciences, but my Honors advisor, Dr. Anne Dotter, encouraged me to look into it. Ever since my first design class, I’ve been fascinated with typography and the endless amount of detail that goes into creating a cohesive set of letters. The subtle differences in letter drawings can convey unique subliminal ideas; text can seem professional, comical, chic, or angry depending on the typeface that a designer chooses. With that in mind, I wanted to try my hand at creating my own typeface during my semester abroad in Trier, Germany. I knew that other designers had created A. Claire Zimmerman typefaces inspired by specific places or objects, and I wanted to challenge myself to create a unique interpretation of my city within the limitations of a typeface. HOMETowN St. Louis, Missouri How is the research process different from what you expected? My research process is very different from the creative process I take for designing. MAJOR Though I try to manage my design process into steps, I change my mind frequently Visual Communication Design and allow myself to explore many different concepts and mediums before settling on a final piece. The research process has been much more streamlined. I have one ACADEMIC LEVEL clear goal for my research and a fairly simple path for solving that problem. Senior What is your favorite part of doing research? RESEARCH MENTOR I love the moments when a solution suddenly appears. Like when a letter suddenly Andrea Herstowski, feels right, or I read a quote that helps me understand. Pure inspiration. As cheesy Associate Professor of Design as it sounds, learning something new or finding sudden clarity is so worth all of the preparation that goes into that one moment. Type in Trier: The Relationship between Letters and the Oldest City in Germany A. Claire Zimmerman INTRODUCTION being in a city, in its letterforms? designed the typeface Gotham using There are countless elements that This is a particularly difficult task. inspiration from lettering on New make a city unique. The people, Type designers must try to create York City skyscrapers, and Kare language, location, climate, an expressive shape that is still created Monaco, Chicago and Geneva architecture, customs and currency of recognizable as part of the alphabet. for Apple computers in the 80s. Here a city all contribute to the experience There are only so many ways to lies my task: to describe the feeling of being in a place. Even the kinds of manipulate a letter, and many of those of a place in a sublime typeface letters, or fonts, which are used in a manipulations are of the slightest design. My research is inspired by city can add to its individuality. Is it detail. It is not unheard of though, the location of my semester abroad possible to draw one font that could and designers like Tobias Frere-Jones in Trier, Germany. When finished, encapsulate all of the type that is used and Susan Kare have successfully the typeface will not only be an in a city? Even further, can a typeface translated the characteristics of a expression of a time and place, but a translate the collective feeling of city to clear letterforms. Frere-Jones tool for communication. 34 | journal OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH BACKGROUND AND Comic Sans, the article would seem INSPIRATION immature and silly. In this example, A typeface is a set of letters drawn in it is evident that the way a letter is a similar style and used for print or drawn plays a role in our perception digital text. The letters in a particular of words themselves. In all, the work typeface have been standardized of a type designer requires intense so that they can appear the same and thoughtful attention to detail. in any application. The beginning But how does a typeface contribute of our contemporary definition of a to a city, you ask? Each city has its typeface dates back to the creation of own unique history, climate and movable type. Johannes Gutenburg, culture, and the type both adds to and the inventor of movable type, reflects that. The lettering for the Paris transformed the world of reading Metro, for instance, is a recognizable and communication by allowing part of the city. The signage was printers to set individual letters on a designed in 1900 by architect and printing press. Before movable type, furniture designer Hector Guimard. printers created woodcut blocks Guimard was inspired by the Art for a single page. The new, more Figure 2: The slight differences Nouveau movement and took cues malleable system allowed for a faster, between Arial and Helvetica. from natural forms for his typeface. cheaper means of printing and the ii While the Paris metro type is spread of information throughout distinction is between serif and quirky and organic, the typeface for the West. Gutenburg’s invention sans serif typefaces (Fig. 1). Serif the New York Subway is stark and changed the way we treat and typefaces are characterized by a neutral. Since the late 1960s, the New design typography.i small projection at the end of a York City Subway has used Helvetica Today, one encounters typefaces stroke. Sans-serif type does not have and Akzidenz-Grotesk in its signage. not only in printed materials, but any added projections. That year the city undertook the on the internet, mobile devices Within these categories, there are massive project of simplifying the and various computer programs. specific details that differentiate one way-finding system used for its maps There are multiple classifications typeface from another. For instance, and signs. Bob Noorda and Massimo for these typefaces based on the Arial and Helvetica may look similar Vignelli provided a uniform way- characteristics of their stroke width, from far away, but close up they use finding for the subway system.iii In style and shape. The most basic different angles and curves (Fig. 2). both New York and Paris, the type In Helvetica’s lowercase “a,” the for the subway system speaks to the angle between the bowl and the uniqueness of the city. This is just one shoulder is a smooth curve. In Arial way that type can be specific to a place. this same angle is sharp and pointed. Other experienced typographers The foot on Helvetica is a small have explored this idea of fonts 90-degree angle with curved lines. relating to a city. For example, the Arial’s foot does not make a big angle, studio of Hoefler & Frere-Jones but gradually veers to the right. created the font Gotham based on Though these characteristics type on buildings in Manhattan. may seem insignificant, even the These letters were created by smallest details contribute to how engineers and architects as labels we understand words. For instance, for buildings. Though the letters most scholarly articles are set in co-founder Tobias Frere-Jones found Times New Roman, Baskerville or are not part of a specific typeface, Garamond because they are legible, they reflect the style of the 1930s professional and do not distract and 40s. He collected hundreds of from the content of an essay. If a photos of these letters and used scholar sets his or her proposal in them as the basis for his drawings.iv Figure 1: An example of type with and without serifs. Summer 2014 – Spring 2015 | 35 side of Germany, a 30 minute drive 2. Collecting Inspiration away from Luxembourg. The Mosel Before beginning my classes in Trier, River runs through the city from I took time to visit other notable North to South. European cities. The type in each city The lifestyle in Trier is still varied greatly from one to the next. characterized by its history and The more I took pictures, the more I geography. The architecture of the realized that the type used for street town center retains an old world signs and building markers most charm; pastel buildings with ornate often reflected the feeling of the place. window frames are set close together For instance, in Valencia, Spain, on cobblestone streets (Fig. 4). The the house numbers are colorful, Figure 3: The complete alphabet for Gotham. population is largely Catholic, and floral and ornamental (Fig. 6). Easter holidays are public days off. Those characteristics are also Gotham is an assimilation of these visible in the downtown plaza examples, and directly reflects the (Fig. 7). This pattern continues city of its origin (Fig 3). for the following images. In Copenhagen, the street sign type CREATIVE PROCESS looks condensed and friendly, just My research follows the example of like the buildings along the city’s Hoefler & Frere-Jones mentioned famous Nyhavn Canal (Fig. 8, 9). above (and is still incomplete In Bruges, the sewer covers have because my semester in Germany an elaborate, traditional letter “b” is not yet over). Just as the designer in the center (Fig. 10). The Bruges found typography in Manhattan Town Hall shares this medieval, from which he based his font, I Figure 4: The Trier town square on ornate aesthetic (Fig. 11). Lastly, use found typography for my a busy Friday. in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, a preliminary sketches. Below is a brief chalet displays unique lettering that outline of my process. There are also few stores open on matches the quaint, organic feeling • Study Trier’s history, lifestyle and Sunday, a religious day of rest. In of the small mountainside town visual characteristics. addition, the river seems to create (Fig. 12,13).
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