The Bridge Is dead
Role Book designer
For Studio Michal Sahar
Date February 2018
Type Print, Book
The Bridge is Dead offers a conceptual analysis of an artistic, cultural, universal phenomenon - the popular song. The book sheds light on the new definition of popular local Israeli music as well as original perspective on the Israeli culture and local music icons. The book was designed for
Jonathan Turgeman as part of his doctoral thesis in musicology The text contains more than 10 different type-hierarchies.
The Hebrew language is not rich in Italic weights commonly used in Latin. The tools for the differentiation of hierarchies in Hebrew are usually font substitution, extreme leading, underline and many other creative solutions. This book was designed using all the different weights (including a new set of Hebrew serif/san-serif italic) of the Fedra typeface (Michal Sahar Typotheque, 2015). This choice makes it possible to differentiate an express the different types of content. In places, the typography almost becomes an image to enable fluent reading.
Book 219 pages / 13.5x19 CM / Digital Printing A.B prints, Tel Avi / Binding PUR Binding
Jonathan Turgeman as part of his doctoral thesis in musicology The text contains more than 10 different type-hierarchies.
The Hebrew language is not rich in Italic weights commonly used in Latin. The tools for the differentiation of hierarchies in Hebrew are usually font substitution, extreme leading, underline and many other creative solutions. This book was designed using all the different weights (including a new set of Hebrew serif/san-serif italic) of the Fedra typeface (Michal Sahar Typotheque, 2015). This choice makes it possible to differentiate an express the different types of content. In places, the typography almost becomes an image to enable fluent reading.
Book 219 pages / 13.5x19 CM / Digital Printing A.B prints, Tel Avi / Binding PUR Binding
