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This short article provides an interesting summary of Tosani’s approach to creating a series, in which the everyday objects he photographs are reinvented each time they are photographed by elements such as the play of light on the surface of a spoon. The author of the article places this is a artistic tradition stretching back to the impressionists in which multiple viewpoints of the same objects or scene are presented at different times and in different conditions to demonstrate the effect of light, the passing of time and the subjectivity of the observing eye. 

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Jan Tschichold's Penguin Books Redesign

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The evolution of the Penguin Books logo design.

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A short video about the graphic design approach to designing the initial series of Penguin paperback books.

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I found this interesting article on the aperture website indentity and website rebrand while looking at the magazine redesign.

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This is the san serif typeface that A2/SW/HK used for magazine title, short articles, introductory paragraphs, subheadings, captions and footer information.

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While carrying out research on Aperture Magazine’s layout, I also researched the fonts that are used. This page is for the font Register*, which was designed by A2-TYPE foundry set up by the studio that carried out the redesign of the magazine.

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While looking at the layout of Aperture Magazine, I found this article - an interview with design studio A2/SW/HK) on a redesign of the magazine that took place in 2013.

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Aperture at Sixty from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

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From Caslon to Quadraat: A history of the LRB in fonts and covers

While looking at the London Review of Books layout for the Lorem Ipsum exercise, I found this interesting video, which talk about the move from Caslon to Quadraat and the implications of digital developments on type usage in the publishing industry.