That would be awesome, but i don’t have time to do it. Anyone?

dr

I’m certainly not the one to do it, but I sure like the idea.

@ David R and Koppa

Thanks for replying, I’m actually looking at it as part of my MA research, it’s involved with new and effective ways to catalogue and preserve type, but has stretched to looking at design in general and provide learning resources for students and teachers alike.

I just want to see what sort of reaction the concept gets from the type/design community before I launch headlong into it!

Any suggestions for what you would like to see included in such a tool would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Chris.

Chris that would be very interesting. Do you think of it as an open environment where others can add pictures and tags?

You might be interested in the work Eric Kindel did as Central St Martins. Typeform dialogues: a comparative survey of typeform history and description, compiled at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. It was never published, but it was set to be published at one time by Hyphen Press.

@ Miss Tiffany

I think it would be a mix of open environment, allowing freelance designers, smaller studios and students to upload and catalogue work, and maintained so that I can hopefully get some of the bigger studios and design groups involved. I’m thinking I’d have to carefully monitor it though so as to make sure it doesn’t end up breaching any copyright.

Thanks for the heads up on that one, maybe they’ll hold a copy at St Martins, I’ll have to give them a go next time I’m in.

While not a massive collection, the AIGA Design Archives tags the fonts for pieces listed:

http://designarchives.aiga.org/

Click on SEARCH in the upper right.
Type in a font name in the KEYWORD text box and click CREDITS and then SEARCH