What is the relationship between Calligraphy, Typeface, Logo and Typography ?
Calligraphy is the traditional – hand produced – way to convey content. With the advent of industrial type production, the need for typography arose to do with the new tools what the calligraphers did before. Interestingly, a divide in two different skills came about: the typeface designer and the typographer. The two require different talents and skills and are rarely combined into one person. Calligraphy can be an important source of inspiration for both type designers and typographers and so can having the skill to draw letters yourself by hand. Manual manipulation remains a very natural source to create. A logo (literally a word) is the name we give to an immense wide variety of graphic work. The only thing that binds them together is the purpose of serving as a graphic ’symbol’ for an organisation or activity. Sometimes letters are used for logos, but not necessarily. The eye-catching ’symbolic’ power of a logo is what counts, not its precise ‘meaning’, if any. I guess it is impor
