{"id":232,"date":"2022-04-22T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/rachelliddle\/?p=232"},"modified":"2022-04-22T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T01:00:14","slug":"inspired-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/rachelliddle\/2022\/04\/22\/inspired-typography\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired Typography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Canadian Design Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alchetron.com\/cdn\/carl-dair-699cb676-e2f2-46af-b8b6-ca5ba75976b-resize-750.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"558\" \/><figcaption>Image of Carl Dair<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Canadian-born Graphic Designer Carl Dair is primarily self-taught in his craft. Dair is a typographer, typographic designer, teacher, and writer. He got his first job at eighteen years old working in advertising layouts for the Stratford Beacon-Herald. In his career, he would become internationally known for integrating design principles innovatively in typography and inspiring many with his design philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dynamic.indigoimages.ca\/v1\/books\/books\/0802065198\/1.jpg?quality=10&amp;sale=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"461\" \/><figcaption>Carl Dair&#8217;s book &#8216;Design with Type&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">During his career, Carl Dair garnered a fair amount of success from his design work. He designed typefaces Cartier, Raleigh, and Cartier Book. He&#8217;s also made numerous publications, including books like &#8216;Design with Type&#8217;, &#8216;A Typographic Quest&#8217;; and &#8216;Gravers and Files a film Dair directed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.ecuad.ca\/file.php\/1790\/lecture_images\/\/1160737083413f20c202729.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Over three decades of work as a graphic designer, Dair would inspire people with his personal design philosophy where he valued &#8220;inspired typography&#8221; as the most important factor for any means of visual communication. He would also inspire many as a designer and teacher with his standard of excellence in his craft. Overall, I enjoy his use of white space and creativity in handling typographic elements in his work. I hope to experiment with how I handle typography in the future and will be using him as reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCarl Dair, FGDC.\u201d <em>GDC (Graphic Designers of Canada) | Carl Dair, FGDC<\/em>, https:\/\/www.gdc.net\/fellows\/carl-dair-fgdc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCarl Dair.\u201d <em>The Canadian Encyclopedia<\/em>, https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/carl-dair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCarl Dair.\u201d <em>Wikipedia<\/em>, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Feb. 2022, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Dair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Citations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCarl Dair &#8211; Alchetron, the Free Social Encyclopedia.\u201d <em>Alchetron.com<\/em>, 21 Feb. 2018, https:\/\/alchetron.com\/Carl-Dair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDHIS-310-SU90-2016-Canadian Design History\/Theory &#8211; Term II.\u201d <em>Week 5 B -Graphics, Typography &amp; Package Design: Canadian Skill, Carl Dair, Henry Eveleigh, Toronto, 1950<\/em>, https:\/\/courses.ecuad.ca\/mod\/book\/view.php?id=64394&amp;chapterid=22757.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indigo Books &amp; Music, Inc. \u201cDesign with Type.\u201d <em>Indigo.ca<\/em>, https:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/en-ca\/books\/design-with-type\/9780802065193-item.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Design Today Canadian-born Graphic Designer Carl Dair is primarily self-taught in his craft. Dair is a typographer, typographic designer, teacher, and writer. He got his first job at eighteen years old working in advertising layouts for the Stratford Beacon-Herald. 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