The Face
ザ・フェイス / 1980s / Style / Publishing and Editing
Redraws its headline letters and section marks issue by issue, then sets them into a page of heavy rules and black bars with the same weight as the photographs.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Extra bold headline letters drawn on geometry
- Heavy rules and black bars dividing the page
- Section marks that change shape issue by issue
- Large type laid over the photograph
Best used for
- Music and fashion magazines where the type is meant to carry as much of the page as the photographs
- Publishing where the headline letters are redrawn issue by issue and the change is shown to the reader
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Draw the headline weight from geometry as extra bold, and hold the text in a small sans
- Composition
- Divide the page with heavy rules and black bars, and lay large type over the photograph
- Material
- Keep a set of section marks that change shape each issue, working in black areas and reversed white
- Caution
- When redrawing the letterforms every issue becomes the aim in itself, the marks stop working as signposts for the reader and every issue looks equally loud.
- Further study
- Fabien Baron / Neville Brody
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