A tale of typography as told by an Art-Sci (in stop-motion!)
A screengrab from Ben Barrett-Forrest's viral video on typography, which was recently featured on The Atlantic magazine's website.
Most people tend to overlook typography’s essential role in design (not to mention human communication).
But most people aren’t Ben Barrett-Forrest.
In April the fourth year Arts & Science and multimedia student and aspiring designer created a stop-motion animation detailing the history of typography.
The video has since been watched more than half a million times and been shared around the web, including in a recent article posted to The Atlantic magazine’s website.
“The History of Typography – Animated Short” takes viewers from the early days of the typeface Blackletter, based on the writing of scribes, to modern fonts created with the help of computers – and even pokes fun at Comic Sans along the way.
