Supersize 2014 Typography Calendar
Product Description
Created by designer Kit Hinrichs, the 365 Calendar features twelve unique typefaces, includes descriptions of the type, shares a biography of each designer and notes all major holidays and the birthdays of the type designers on the calendar.
To ensure the best of the typographic world, Hinrichs invited 12 world-renowned international members of the illustrious Alliance Graphique Internationale to nominate some of their favorite typefaces. Their choices range from the traditional to the avant-garde, the austere to Old World script flourishes. Stunningly decorative, the 365 Calendar elevates appreciation of typography as an art form. It is truly the calendar to covet for designers, architects and lovers of modern design everywhere.
Product Details
- Materials
Paper
- Measurements
33"L x 23"W
- OriginCanada
— Features 12 typefaces chosen by 13 members of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI)
— Includes American and Canadian holidays, as well as birthdays of featured designers
— Printed on high-quality Sappi McCoy Matte paper: 10% post-consumer waste, FSC and SFI Chain-of-Custody Certified, and produced with 100% Green-e Certified renewable energy
— As seen in Martha Stewart Living, Dwell, Sunset, Lucky and InStyle magazines
About the Designer
Kit has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the California College of the Arts, and the Academy of Art in San Francisco. His work has been honored and widely published internationally, and several of his pieces are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design. Kit is also the co-author of several books and a much sought-after guest speaker on design. An avid collector of Stars & Stripes memorabilia, his collection of over 3,000 objects has been exhibited across the country and in Japan, and presented in the book Long May She Wave (published by Ten Speed Press, 2001).
Kit is a recipient of the prestigious AIGA medal in recognition of his exceptional achievements in the field of graphic design and visual communication. He is a past executive board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, and has been an Art Center College of Design trustee since 1996.
Shipping Information
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Shipping AvailabilityUnited States
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Shipping PolicyStandard Ground Shipping
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Ship In3-4 weeks ⓘ
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Return PolicyFinal sale, not eligible for return or cancellation