Anzac Descendant

Here are three  of my earlier typographic works. See I can work with a plainer typeface! They  appear on  tee shirts and clothing  available from

www.redbubble.com/scholara/clothing

Copyright Julie Vaux 2013 

Copyright Julie Vaux 2013

Copyright Julie Vaux 2013

Aldus Manutius and Greek Fonts

#greek #greekfonts #aldusmanutius

Aldus Manutius is the latin name of a scholar called Teobaldo Manutius who founded the Aldine Press in Venice.

Famous for developing Italic typefaces along with his partner Francesco Griffo he was also the first person to PRINT books in Greek.

His Greek font was modelled on the handwriting of Byzantine scholars.

The first Greek book printed in Europe was a dual language Greek Latin text a book on Greek grammar written by Constantine Lascaris called Erotemata.

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Horn Books and Literacy

Although many of the surviving examples have frames of wood or metal its thought that at one stage cattle horn was used either for the frames or board in the frame.

These horn books are actually literacy primers. Notice the ABC followed by the Lord's Prayer. The idea was that children could copy the letters of the Abc and then since the Lord's Prayer was something they heard frequent in home or church they would be learning to read something they frequent HEARD.

The visual signs were matched to audio signals! Early Phonics?

The only examples I have seen come from England or the USA.

From the 18th century they were progressively replaced by printed versions "PRIMERS" which might include the ABC in upper and lower case  the Lord's Prayer and Numbers at the least.

Easter 2013

Wishing you a joyous easter celebration with Grunewald's famous painting!

Google Isenheim Altarpiece for more info about this famous work.

Certianly the Altarpieceitself  demos how graphic design is communication and story telling if you think of it as being an interactive narrative?

Ramen Shop Signage

This ramen n snacks shop creates a great atmosphere in a small space using spatial layout n signage n yes its in sydney

PLASMA RAP

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DANG I love this design but I don't think its workable or printable in its current state as I have an nasty and strong suspicion that although technically there's only two or three  colors the swirly pattern might lead to bleeding in an actual print even a enlarged digital print using inkjet methods? Let alone silk screen printing 4 or 6 colors?  Are the colors separable? Am I being too hestitant? 

Ideas anyone?

But I like playing with letters and why!

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Some one was commenting negatively on my tee shirts designs though that person does seem to prefer mashup style tees anyway! This is my reply.

This blog is mostly about letters sometimes my typographic designs, sometimes other peoples, and sometimes I look at books and manuscripts and non roman scripts, and sometimes I just PR my own work.

I am not a brilliant typographer but I do like playing with letters and filter combinations in Inkscape and Gimp. Notice the word PLAYING.

I sometimes show the results of this playing and EXPERIMENTING cos I think the filter combos might give other people ideas for doing something better with the same techniques. That's called SHARING

Yes some of these results only work digitally but with more and more art work appearing in digital contexts ... 

I don't mind if you're thinking I can do better ... but don't condemn my playfulness solely cos you have a strong preference for media mashups over other design styles.

Myself I'm hoping by accident or intent to create some letter art thats meaning with a message and also beautiful but sometiems I just play around and do do irony ... like my gibberish design on Red Bubble.

Finally did any of you notice technically I have not broken the stick to a few colors fonts rule?

Maybe I should make this a tee even if it only appeals to typographers and typophiles?