Design as Conversation.

(Typography by Thomas Broome)

Design colors society and our conversaitons.

The images by Thomas Broome – Typography gallery are amazing typography that combine graphic and interior design together to communicate a deeper level of design. Design is always around us whatever we see, hear, smell, or touch. All of our senses allow us to communicate with the environment, which informs more than aesthetic shapes and forms, but also meaning and messages through words and letters. Communication is based on our language, and for English, typography design takes big part of our expressing skill.

Typography is now designed to be more illustrative; however, during the making of types and fonts, people in different period or culture were gradually discovering typography. During the earliest period when China had drawings that were created as symbols, and later developed to become the typography for Chinese. Moreover, the types were decorative, extravagant, and pointy during the Medieval period because reading was not yet opened to public. People had to be wealthy enough to have the privilege of reading the beautifully designed fonts. Gradually, the English and Americans started to design clear and understandable typography after reading became public.  And capitalizing was also a method for easier reading based on the scale change in letters.

Different typography design gives its own style and characteristics. For example, serif typography was becoming the most common font with the finished lines at each edge of the letters. But through Industrial Revolution and modernizations, sons-serif becomes a more popular typography design without all the finish edges.

In the 21^st century, typography has gradually become a visual illustration. For example, patterns and photographic images were combined with types and fonts even before the common usage of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and other design software. But the common usage of computers and software, brings typography designs in to the "world of internet."

Typography embraces characteristics and personality. Every culture creates their language through their designs. The visual conversation started with imagery drawn by the Chinese, and transformed in to neat and easy fonts for reading.

Typography creates conversation.