Barn Owl

With its ghostly appearance, rasping shrieks, and habit of roosting in such places as church belfries, this bird has attracted much superstition. However, it is really a good omen for farmers who...

Audubon

I've been obsessed for a while with this project by Vignelli: the Audobon Field Guide Books.

https://typo.social/@letterformarchive/109668007704118228

https://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/post/141677690397/audubon-first-sign-of-spring

because deep down I adore informative typographic design that serves the citizen, when it's designed so well that it's beautiful in its engineering rigour.

So I tried to decode the grid which I added to my archive of other grids decoded from works by Vignelli, Aicher, Brockmann etc.
#massimovignelli #audobon #audobonfieldguides #grid #typography #cicero

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Attached: 1 video Happy birthday to design legend Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014). While Vignelli is perhaps best known for his design of the New York City Subway map, our Editorial Director Stephen Coles remembers him for a different system: The Audubon Society field guides, first designed in 1976.

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