Paul Stonier

Jason Santa Maria on Typography at An Event Apart 2013

Education, Graphic Design, Typography, Web Design

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Jason Santa Maria gives us a glimpse into the thoughts, challenges and considerations a type nerd (or in his words, a font geek). He shows the audience why we make the decisions we do and tells it quite well. For anyone interesting in learning typography, I highly recommend watching this.

Jason Santa Maria has gained a reputation for being one of the early adopters of web typography and embracing the flexibility of web design to take on principles from web design. Like in his talk at SVA, The Influence of Print Design on Web Design.

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The Art of Web Design: PBS Off Book

Graphic Design, Typography, Web Design

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Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Whitney Hess do a great job of covering the history of Web Design and where we are today. They cover it from when it simply existing for scientists to share research to Responsive Web Design for the ever-changing set of devices that we use to access web content.

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Jonathan Hoefler at Pivot AIGA Conference

Education, Graphic Design, Typography, Web Design

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Jonathan Hoefler is always incredibly articulate about his relationship to letters and fonts. In this case, he does an entertaining and detailed job of spelling out the challenges, concerns and considerations a type designer faces when creating fonts for the web.

via Frank Chimero.

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Seth Godin on Typography

Advertising, Branding, Business, Graphic Design, Social Media, Typography, Web Design

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“Typography is what sets Apple, at first glance, apart from just about everyone at the mall. Typography is what makes a self-published book often look pale in comparison to a ‘real’ one. Typography (or the lack thereof) is a safety hazard on airplanes (who decided that all the safety labels should be in ALL CAPS)?

The choice of a typeface, the care given to kerning and to readability—it all sends a powerful signal. When your business card is nothing but Arial on a piece of cardboard, you’ve just told people how they ought to think about you… precisely the opposite of what you were trying to do when you made the card in the first place” From Seth Godin

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Jason Santa Maria: The Influence of Print Design on Web Design

Graphic Design, Typography, Web Design

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SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo.

Jason Santa Maria is an amazing force within the web design world. His role in improving typography and understanding the relationship of editorial design to the website is unmatched. I can extremely appreciate what he is doing in a number of respects. Not to mention, I’m very jealous of getting to share officespace with Swiss Miss.

Links:
Fontshop Designer Spotlight: Jason Santa Maria
Typekit
Typesites Interview
Jason Santa Maria on 24 Ways
We Are Mighty

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