Typography

As a student of typography, the movement that was started by the Bauhaus and Jan Tschichold and later built upon by people like Muller Brockmann, Otl Aicher and Armin Hoffmann, until it became an international style, has always been an inspiration. In parts of Spain you can still find shop signs and architectural typography crudely executed in this style. They survive from a time before the design by committee refinements of the eighties and nineties. You can also find the sort of eccentric, decorative typography that originated at Push Pin studios and achieved mass distribution through companies like Letraset in the nineteen seventies. Finally, there are also many examples of pure vernacular - hand drawn, incorrectly spaced, mis-matched and imperfect. A Coruña had all of these curiosities and more: (click images to enlarge)