Production Notes
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Design Notes
The section headings for this site were set in Linotype Peignot Demi, the digital version of A.-M. Cassandre's Peignot typeface—first released by Deberny et Peignot in 1937. The website's text is set to display in Arial, chosen for its legible sans serif design and its ubiquitous appearance on most web browsers and computer platforms. The red, white, black, and gray color scheme seen on each web page, references the dominant design colors of the 1930's era when Constructivism, the Bauhaus, the New Typography, Art Deco, and Modernist austerity were in vogue. The majority of the images featured on this site are drawn from Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Cover designs from various AMG issues appear in the upper left corner of each web page.
Production Technology
The following hardware and software was used for the production of this web publication:
Digital Input Devices
- Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera
- Sony Mavica digital camera
- Agfa Argus flatbed scanner
Macintosh Software
- Adobe Acrobat 4.0
- Adobe Acrobat Distiller 4.0
- Adobe Illustrator 6.0
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5
- Quark XPress 4.0
- Microsoft Word 98
- Internet Explorer
- Netscape Communicator
Windows Software
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5
- ERWin
- TopStyle Lite
- Microsoft Access 97
- Microsoft FrontPage
- Microsoft Office
- Internet Explorer
- Netscape Communicator
This site was updated in 2021 to a more modern website. These changes were made by Aaron Miller and Tyler Hanf.
Bibliography
Bibliography is now available from the RIT Scholar Works
Acknowledgements
This project would not be possible without the guidance and support of the following people:
- David Pankow, Curator of the Cary Collection: advisor par excellence
- Kari Horowicz, Archivist of the RIT Archives
- Jody Sidlauskas, Sarah Reynolds, and Nate Martel of the RIT Archives: warm colleagues
- Archie Provan, Marie Freckleton, Michael Riordan, Erich Lehman: SPMS mentors
- Marcia Trauernicht, RIT Wallace Senior Cataloguer
- The Wallace Library Information Technology staff
- MH, VKC, VN, AF, EH, BC, JMC: fellow graduate students and empathizers
- Laurent Fontanel: who always supported and believed in me
About the Author
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel holds a B.A. in Art History from Nazareth College of Rochester. She worked in the Photography Collection at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film before entering RIT's graduate program in Graphic Arts Publishing-Typography and Design. The work presented in AMG Web was completed in partial fulfillment of her graduate thesis for an M.S. in Graphic Arts Publishing. She has studied French since high school and travels there frequently.