Wish I could be there!
Antwerp Part II
I AM SO TIRED OF YOUR EXPERIMENTAL SANS — The title pretty much says it. It’s a tumblr devoted to all those “expiramental” typefaces that seem to blend together after a while.
Seeing a few of them next to each other, you can’t help but see a trend running through these kinds of typefaces; most are monoline, often monospace, with strokes crossing strokes all over the place. Kudos to the curator for including Paul Renner’s original designs for Futura in the mix for context.
- Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
- Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
- Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
- Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
- Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
Outstanding type designer Kris Sowersby (of KLIM) hit us with a double whammy today with the release of his typewriter typeface Pitch and a brand new website designed by Springload.
Make sure to read Pitch’s design notes.
I admit, I bought a Keep Calm and Carry On poster when they started to get popular. Not content to buy from just anywhere (often they get the lettering wrong, replacing it with Gill or even Avenir or Gotham) I bought mine from this charming book store. This video really made me want to go there in person though. So charming! (via @kottke)
I’m glad to have contributed to this collection. I reviewed the great Carter Sans.
Thanks to my smart and talented friends for participating in Typographica’s “Favorite Typefaces of 2011”.
This is a really, really enjoyable site. (via @idsgn and @teehanlax)
So, on Friday I was asked by Brockett Horne and Ellen Lupton—respectively of the undergrad and graduate graphic design departments at MICA—to give a talk to professors and graduate students about how to teach students to design good web typography.
As I was creating the presentation, I realized that I was mentioning a lot of sites, so I created a page that contained all those links. Eventually it struck me that these links might not be only useful to those who attended my talk, but also the general population of the internet.
These photos are simply amazing. I would have no clue on how to begin.
To promote her newly launched photo restoration business, Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway colourized a few of history’s more iconic photos. Check them out here.
Augh, @youngjerks! I’m so screwed. Now I have to come up with something super clever.
Triforce Tribute Art Sneak Peek #1: Young Jerks (aka Dan Cassaro) work-in-progress. View more work by Dan here! More sneak peeks to come!
Saul Bass Pitches the new Bell System Logo. Amazing, sometimes over the top, brand pitch. Thanks to @benbours
These Hermès windows from House Industries are awesome! Next can we have a video of them in action?
A half-tone font already seems like a nigh impossible task. Toss in the fact that this was made in FontStruct, makes this absolutely amazing.
Badger Spine is a font by Holly Dennis created in FontStruct, which means it’s made of modular “bricks” in basic shapes like circles, rectangles, and diagonals. Really. Even ignoring that incredible fact, it’s a beautiful design inspired by some of nature’s own building blocks.
