Hi all,
Did Mies van der Rohe design a font?
If so, what is it?
Thanks,
L
Not that I know of but the typical array of modernist fonts designed by others are used in association with his work.
I don't know if this exactly qualifies but he did design signage for the Toronto-Dominion Centre. Wickipedia states: "Even signage graphics were restricted to only white backlit letters within a black aluminum panel, and only in the specific font that Mies had designed for the T-D Centre.
ChrisL
I can't remember seeing a van der Rohe typefaces, but I can remember seeing some faces in the De Stijl journals - Theo van Doesberg. Kinda similar philosophies.
Obviously, the Bauhaus works incorporate those ideals. Might be a place to start. and as the learned gentleman above says, building signage is a good place to look for an architects type discipline.
Personally, I think van de Rohe would have been a fan of Futura.
… Copperplate?
yeah, go figure.
A CCESS could be a retrofit — Was the term even used to refer to an accessible route in 1968?. Wasn't it more like, "huh? what's an 'accessible route?'"
Actually, did the AIGA/DOT standard pictogram of the wheelchair even exist before the late '70s or early '80s.
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Chester Jenkins at Village designed a typeface based on van der Rohe's lettering for a book project by Michael Bierut. Check out pages 12 through 14 in this PDF.
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