Sisy Wong
During week 9, we discussed the postmodernism artist in Europe.
Gerard Unger is the one who impressed me the most. He was a Dutch typographer and graphic designer. He was born in Arnhem, Netherlands in 1942. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2018 which five months after his wife’s death. He studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Also, he took lots of guest lectures at the University of Reading which he taught lots of young modern typeface designers.
He created lot of typefaces in his life. Most of them are available from Linotype and the Dutch Type Library.
This is my favorite Unger’s design typeface, it’s called the Alverata. It was created in 2013. It’s a twenty-first-century typeface whose design is inspired by capitals in inscriptions from the Romanesque period. It also reflects developments in design and arts of twentieth century.
I think he is such a genius, he created tons of typefaces in his lifetime. I appreciated the perseverance that he has as I can never create typefaces. In all his works, I especially love this book cover, I like the pin and thread style of typeface and I think it looks cool.