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- Letters 2009/03/16
- New Work: Deutsche Kinemathek 2009/03/16
- Q = ? 2009/03/16
- Everybody Dance Now: 20 Years of Dancing in Print at the AIGA 2009/03/16
Justus Oehler and his team continue to design for theDeutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen in Berlin. Their latest projects for the museum include the design of promotional campaigns for Casting a Shadow – Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film, a major exhibition about Hitchcock and his creative collaborators, and for two programs presented in conjunction with theBerlin International Film Festival: 70mm – Bigger than Life, a retrospective of movies presented in the 70mm format; and Winter adé, or After Winter Comes Spring – Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall, a special series that will screen films produced in the GDR and Eastern European countries in the 1980s, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany. The series will travel to theaters across Germany to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Oehler and his team previously designed the museum's identity andcampaigns for several exhibitions. The 70mm and Winter .
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Angus Hyland has contributed an entry to Grafik magazine's first A-Z of Typography. Read his musings on the letter Q after the jump. Q is for ? By Angus Hyland So here’s one… Q: How many typographers does it take to change a light bulb? A: A lot - They have to form an orderly Q. A silly joke but Q is a silly letter. A folly, odd,queer if you like, in the original sense of the word. As a functioning letter Q is utterly redundant. The job can be done perfectly well by the letter K, and for the most part, generally is. When comparing the same sound in English spelling, C is the most popular, K finishes a distant second and Q is miles behind. Aside from Z, Q is the least used letter in the English alphabet. Q was not adopted into the English language until after 1066, with the French language invasion of the Norman Conquest. Previously Old English had got by without it. Ben Jonson wrote, "The Anglo Saxons knew not this halting Q with her waiting woman u after." Perhaps the enduring enigma of the Q has something to do with its rather fanciful shape, by developing the boring O with a flourish at the end of it. Set in Baskerville it looks lofty, feminine and regal, like the Queen with u, her lady-in-waiting.
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