Typography is the foundation of environmental graphic design and many experiential graphic design projects. Along with color, scale, and form, typography is a basic building block of communications in the built environment.
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Typography Articles
Type on the Vertical
Read Time: 3 minutes
Just about every designer has an opinion about typeset on the vertical. The thing is: you’d be hard pressed to find a statistical or empirical study that establishes the best way Latin type should be set when it’s flipped on its end.
 The Vignelli Canon |
 Proportion—The Language of Graphic Design (Second Edition) |
Thoughts and Opinions
Design To Go—Los Angeles
In this week's installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk visits California, stopping in Laguna Beach and Los Angeles.
 FHWA Stands by Clearview Decision for Highway Signs, but Clarifies its Use for Community Wayfinding |
 States, Highway Officials Push Back on Clearview Turnaround |
Explore SEGD Award Winners
 Cornell Tech |
 AFROPUNK Festival |
 BRUTAL: Views from Brazil's Concrete Utopia |
 Quad Cinema |
SEGD Talks - Typography videos
 Allan Haley: Scaling Typography |
Typography Academic Research
Typography EGD Firms
The Buzz: Typography Web Links
Typography News
Don Kiel Wins Award for SEGD Auction Project
Read Time: <1 minute
Retired Manager of Wayfinding & Visitor Information at New York-Presbyterian (and SEGD Auction hero), Donald Kiel, recently won a 2019 Communication Arts award for "Caution Tape T-Shirt."
ESI Design Renovates Portland’s Historic Power + Light Building
Oregon’s Public Service Building, built in 1928, was designed by renowned West Coast architect A.E. Doyle. The building was once the home of Portland’s main power station and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was recently renovated by ESI Design (New York) for the building’s owner, real estate investment firm Beacon Capital.
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