Title
The quick fox and the lazy dog

Year
2008

Author
Curator - Creative Director
Isotta Dardilli

Music
Francesco Novara

Description
Typefaces were the key inspiration for The quick fox and the lazy dog, whose title derives from the pangram commonly used for trying out a font.
The CD opens with Helvetica, one of the world’s favourite typefaces, imagined in this case as a great star performing in a club for a crowd of fans. Cooper Black draws inspiration from black voices of the New Orleans of the Roaring Twenties, the same years in which this typeface was designed. Then Courier, whose name derives from the typeface designed for typewriters and creates
a workplace mood; sounds reminiscent of office machines – faxes, printers, mice, keyboards – mark the track’s beat. Blackletter takes us back
in time to the time of end-of-the-century music hall when Gothic/medieval typefaces such as this were first designed. Cottonwood gallops off to the Far West and evokes the atmosphere of westerns. Stencil suggests an alphabet of cut-outs for writing on various kinds of surfaces and pays homage
to the street and underground worlds.
The presentation of the book Colors Notebook
at TYPOBerlin is also the occasion for the launch
of this CD published by Nuova Stradivarius.