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Type design and visual communication | Akira Kobayashi | TEDxUTokyo


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Today is Kobayashi Asahi I came from Germany

I am designing European typeface in Germany

It is made in European typeface, that is, alphabet abc

The real thing that I am moving to here is not this I made

I played a bit

The Fu Tteyuu and events at Tteyuu this tower saw this this internal use or Atten of

I have no idea.

Perhaps most people thought that thought

Just a little playfully making the actual Ted’s logo here and there as well

It’s the middle one

Choose this orthodox form for this dare among various fonts

I am making a logo

The reason why I chose this thesis in

For example, there is something the logo wants to convey

It then Toka than not is’ s scary story or with’m talking to listen calmly, for example,

Well it’s trustworthy content

I want to express such a thing with this logo

But it is not expressed in the form of peace of mind or your words

I would have noticed immediately out of place ones Tsu funny in what Well strange

But it is too ordinary to use the usual usage and there is no attention there

For example, it happens that it may not be suitable for Ted, but various fonts

There.

For example I Toka or cute children received a result or medieval Europe of the story

There is a sense of quality, fashionable or such

There are lots of fonts suitable for directing. If you meet the purpose, you will want to use it

Choose a font such Fu thing about Although this is are making Well now the slide

There is a menu

There are hundreds of designs in the graphics application and you can choose among them

I will

There may be few people who know about design work as fonts

But there must be people who made it

New fonts funny fonts

You will want to use different scenes

Then when I decided to create a new font

Something I it is a designer to make a call and the font to do the designer

First

I do not we have to realize there is a serious thing two contradictory things at the same time

For example, if the letter is a, it is important to be able to read in a

I do not invent the shape of the alphabet by myself

It will not be useless unless others can read it

so

The font designer’s a is so it must be in a form I have seen somewhere

not

But on the other hand it must be in a form that everyone can recognize as new

It is fighting against that contradiction

I won the Grand Prix of the global Western font I made in the 1990’s

It is a font

I won another Grand Prix with this and another next font

There were several categories and I thought that the hurdle was the hurdle

I applied for the body typeface category

Because it is a body font, you can not do such a strange shape

In in Kotono some form seen somewhere that may have read somewhere

Well basic authentic

Even if books can be assembled , winning the Grand Prix is ​​recognized as new until now

You will be told that

Actually fonts are used in various places and it happened to pass through by way of example

But I found this brochure when I went to a school park in Belgium

Yes I like this veteran designer who used my fonts for this American example

Because it is so

Book designers are sent along with appreciation letters along with examples using my fonts

Was

So this is my font when I won another Grand Prix of my second time

This is the Netherlands Well this was invited to a German company in 2001

I have been directing the design of the European font ever since.

Now

I am not a Japanese .

In addition to not do anything in Well born of bilingual

Easy-to-read European fonts that never came out of Japan until 29 years old

making

The first time the first work of the design of it I was interested character to character in general from the time Well small

I was designing the feeling of Japan

So I met Hermann Chap’s book on the left side

After reading it this will be like studying with Mr. Chap if you study a pen

Directly below to go to so I thought to paper might be whether European font is found

When I was walking around the city of London at the small bookstore I found this picture on the right

Adrian is the sound of frutiger

Read these books that you read the thread Well character

I feel I understood a little about what you see on things

Many people told me that Japanese people can not do Western fonts, but I

Beneath I thought I can

Even among Japanese people there are lots of people active in the global stage

For example, there are conductor orchestra conductors or chefs of Western cuisine

And in Germany company to Japan

I was able to work with the master of the design I was longing for

I actually learned a lot from them and saw the fonts that I made and they were satisfied

Got it

so

It is probably that I can see that I have seen so many things hard in England

I guess it is because you think

Walking around the city

I went to a craftsman digging a stone to study or studied a book of beautiful typography

I did it

I do not think I could understand everything at once, but from seeing it as anything

It is 1990 that I came back to Japan

When I got to the airport in Japan, I saw the surroundings and how Japanese English sentences look like something like London

I felt like that

I always thought that I wonder why the appearance is different to use the same English

I thought about what would be such things as readability and reading rhythm

It was

Ah ah ah

Well here is a university so let’s experiment a little with this word dog bar key

It is a relatively long word, is not it? Well it is not so

right

In fact this is the form of the word

Hold out the contour

I grasp it and understand the word with that.

Well if this shape collapses it is hard to read

Each character can be read but it is a bit difficult to read as a chunk of words

Another thing but the sense of rhythm is also important. If the letters are printed in black then it’s hard for that

White part between letters and letters

This portion is also difficult to read after all if this is to spoil even I’d very important

Well this rhythmic feeling can be relieved

The sense of rhythm is, for example, the stride when walking without consciousness

It’s like something

Not that kind of mon would jerky in galvanized iron If you try something something this by force

Is not it

Characters are also the same

A lot of information in the town and the airport and the city

I have a sign

oh dear

There is a person who makes this This is someone who makes this character

Not be considered until there you very much in

Actually, for example, when coming to this venue today many people

Looking at the guide and that’s why I am here , but what kind of font is that ?

Do you remember how it was shaped ?

Perhaps I do not remember it . That I did not remember that it did not matter

With no problem there was no problem

The problem is removed in advance Made up who make the sign of the font designers and Kako

That’s why

so

As you can see well the struggle also looks at these things in Japan

A woman named a designer of this European typeface, having a somewhat disappointing way of being used

From the view

I also read the book as long as the designer also puts it in a normal life

If you go into the city ​​you will see these signs too.

The Fu that Do I think we may already be a little what Toka improvement

think

In Europe in recent years fonts that considered this investigation are becoming mainstream

I used a font called frutiger that is used in airports and stations around the world

The sign

It is getting bigger I got out on the picture a while ago

Ah Tian full tear-san has created

Fonts that are commonly used in Europe took wide punctuation, or space, of letters

It’s a design

Still engulfed firm character in Japan will mainstream feel

But yes in the upper or let a little comparisons were answered say helvetica

I want to call frutiger

Well, if you take it as clearly visible separately, neither can be read without problems

Maybe I do think even in the evening

Think about bad weather conditions or such conditions

Simulation with a slight degree blur

I will try it.

I think when something like this at once as is seen coming out is a difference in the morning to read the

Well Germany will receive results of these experiments and will be used for instructors etc. in 2013

A font called Tier is announced and there is recommended font tree strike there

In Japan, you choose a wide range of phones etc. that are strongly involved

Moreover , because it does not fit on the bulletin board, there is a tendency to shorten the entire sentence from the left and right already

However, it is not easy to read

In the autumn of letters and letters it seems like a useless space I feel like this too

It is about the same again once again

However

You can also fully understand that the width of the left and right are limited

For that reason

Although there are kinds of fonts well- known as Condensed

Just because I did not shrink left and right, the font designer pre-

Is it adjusting how it looks when it is shrunk?

Say whether you are what kind of adjustment

Well this is the h which the vertical bars also made of the same thickness of the horizontal bars

Do not you see the bars thicker?

Well, can not you see the horizontal bar falling a bit, then this is due to the illusion of the eye

Sometimes leave by removing the illusion of the eyes to true in

Or

If you crush this cheering from the left and right , it will be a beautiful base, is not it

You should be comfortable with your eyes calmly shaped in advance to shape that you want to fall naturally

It was a pleasant correction for those eyes

Condensed bodies are using it like this in the United States, for example

Germany advance this but that is pretty long Toka name of the road

I mean that using this shortened content zone to the left and right

Choose a decent such a font not to adopt reduced from select a wide font

Is not it

How about this Tokyo example

Is this a bit easy to read

This has been organized in such a Fu though Shibuya of the bus stop of a Tokyo

this

Emma

Switzerland in frutiger earlier

When I replace it with frutiger I saw in the highway example

There is a word that is right for a right person just by slightly changing the typeface

Just choosing a typeface will make it look beautiful like this

It will be easier to read

By the way, even this alone has become sufficiently easy to read but one more thing

There is a hint to make this easier to read, right now I will combine all this with capital letters

However , if you combine it with upper case letters and lower case letters

That person is more readable

Well it is easy to understand in a moment because it clearly understands the shape of the word

There are various types of fonts. This is an example of Switzerland

Expression of the word as if it were voice when

I will give you

One’s number

Such a not so noticeable when not needed but stand out when needed

There are also people who make fonts

I would like you to remember here a

Such Fu in various contrivances have been hidden but is a label that is usually passed casually

That you are

Remember here I would like to return home Thank you very much

[applause]

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