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The best videos from the fields of typography, calligraphy and lettering

5 Hole Paper Tape

Before the 7 bit ASCII character set became a dominant computer encoding in the 1960s and 1970s, 5 bit encoding on paper tapes was a common way to save and exchange texts and programming code. Professor Brailsford explains how this worked for the the Computerphile YouTube channel. 
Ralf Herrmann

Susan Kare, Iconographer

Susan Kare walks us through some key points regarding the design of icons and symbols. Kare is an artist and designer and pioneer of pixel art; she created many of the graphical interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s as a key member of the Mac software design team, and continued to work as Creative Director at NeXT for Steve Jobs.
 
Ralf Herrmann

Alan Kitching, letterpress typographer

“My name's Alan Kitching, I’m a letterpress typographer, designer, artist, and I’ve been working in this business for most of my life.”
Short film that offers a behind-the-scenes look at Kitching’s studio and collection of physical type, as well as his work creating a set of posters that pay tribute to the centenary of five hugely influential graphic designers: Tom Eckersley, Paul Rand, FHK Henrion, Josef Müller-Brockmann and Abram Games.
 
Ralf Herrmann

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