‘Moshun’s a fairly simple design – done in just two days in Illustrator and After Effects – that happens to leap, spiral, and shimmy into place.’
Moshun (pronounced Mo-shun, of course) was created by Dutch designer Jeroen Krielaars. Article (with much more detail) here.
Experimental typeface inspired by the work of Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964). Drawn in 1990 by Tobias Frere-Jones; now one of the co-owners of H&FJ.
I love how this face captures the orthogonals of the De Stijl movement, of which Rietveld’s famous Red Blue Chair was one of their icons.
Wish this Rietveld type were available somewhere.
Found via a book that I used to have – it vanished into a murky, dusty pile many, many years ago
‘Aubhaus is a constructivist and geometric font. Great for use as a big display font on titles and short texts. It features Latin and Non Latin Characters.’
Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s Aubhaus font. Available thru YouWorkForThem.
‘I’m a Sexy Font’ poster, created by Obtenebratio
Back in the early 1990s, the Carol Twombly-drawn Adobe Caslon was one of the first font packages I ever purchased.
I’ve been in love with it ever since. I use it on just about everything – including this blog’s title, my own logotype. I’m a font designer myself, but still don’t consider my own letterforms to even come close to what was accomplished with this particular interpretation of Caslon. [Read more →]
‘A revival of classic eighteenth-century type by William Caslon, featuring shorter descenders, and higher contrast giving the face a more useful, modern quality.’
I was lucky enough to see the Replay type family in production. And a got to play with some of the beta versions; used one for a fashion logo.
Stefan Hattenbach has been working on this beautiful Caslon update for a few years now. And like all his fonts, there is brilliance in the details.
Replay is available exclusively through Veer.
‘Lyric video for Ceelo’s big, big single FU.’
Love this video, but . . . Dang!
Typos.
Found via Bwargh Von Modnar
This past Sunday night there was an incredible TypeCon party at at the International Printing Museum in Carson, California – I’ll have photos in a later post.
And in the background of the tinkering of machinery (and grilling of some incredible, Southern California tacos) was the music of longtime friend, DJ (and graphic designer) SeventhSwami.
Download some of Swami’s free mixes here.
Blog here. Debut album (pictured above) also available.
SeventhSwami: Praise and War Ship
‘Hand sprinkled cinnamon’
Snapshot by student Rikki Morehouse. She went thru several cups of coffee til she got them serifs right.
(Hedline written by former student Devon Cloutier)
‘Vuitton Persona is an all-capital two-color custom font designed by Jean François Porchez for Louis Vuitton Malletier. Hand-painted stripes and monograms are part of the Vuitton heritage, and it was natural to apply this to new technologies.’
Exclusive typeface. Custom monograms. Details here. Official website here.
A few fonts from the new Georgia Pro type family
Matthew Carter’s Georgia is among my favorite fonts. And recently, Georgia turned into something a bit . . . more.
I love that Georgia exists, or the interwebs would be Times forever (well, until WOFF kicks in) – and without Georgia, the argument that sans fonts online are more legible (which I think is hooey) sort of wins.
And if you’re reading my blog directly online (without using RSS), you’re reading Georgia. It does what I like it to do. Reads well. [Read more →]
Isla Waite’s extremely heavy, laser cut student final from my most recent experimental typography course. Her research subject was Erik Spiekermann.
No digitally-made drop shadows here.
Type Munching Dinos by Tiffany Valdez.
Part one
‘Fry travels across Europe to find out how Gutenberg kept his development work secret, about the role of avaricious investors and unscrupulous competitors and why Gutenberg’s approach started a cultural revolution.’
Stephen Fry loves design. That’s one of the reasons he’s really cool. [Read more →]
So I’m pretty much out the door right now – driving down to TypeCon.
And this Thursday morning I’ll be speaking as an ‘icebreaker’ in the Type & Design Education Forum. I’ll be going over a bunch of things I’ve learned while teaching; things that I’ve discovered work very well in a creative classroom. [Read more →]
‘I could not be happier about this, or any more proud to live in a city that recognise the importance of preserving this kind of work.’
Vintage signs unearthed and preserved in Copenhagen. Details here.
Found via Martin Klasch
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