Futura Type Specimen Book
A type specimen book taking a look at the history and characteristics of the typeface Futura created by Paul Renner in 1927. The book takes on a playful approach to the subject matter and uses a colour scheme based off of the imagery accopanying futura's most famous uses, supreme and Barbara Kruger.
Design tools:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Works cited:
"Barbara Kruger Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works." The Art Story. http://www.theartstory. org/artist-kruger-barbara.htm.
Leonard, Charles C., "Paul Renner and Futura:The effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Conti- nuity on the Design of Type for Printing."Thesis, Georgia State University, 2006.
h p://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/2
Douglas, Ava. "Paul Renner." History of Graphic Design. http://www.historygraphicdesign.com/ the-modernist-era/the-bauhaus-and-the-new-typog- raphy/279-paul-renner.