entries Tagged as [design]

Supria Sans Regular, free for a limited time

‘An extended family of 36 fonts inspired by Swiss type design.’

Released just this year, Supria Sans is an incredible new type family designed by Hannes von Döhren.

And you can snag the Regular weight (+ Italic) free here. Offer ends Monday, February 28, 2011.

Hattenbach profiled

‘it is a passion and a drug’

Swedish type designer Stefan Hattenbach makes incredible letterforms. And his body of typographic work has run the range from experimental to traditional and experimental traditional. They’re always a pleasure to set on a page.

This month, Stefan’s one of MyFonts’ Creative Characters.

Read the interview here.

Check out Stefan’s website here.

mehallo fonts on sale

‘Another inspiration was the film MAX (2002), written and directed by one of Emigre magazine’s founders, Menno Meyjes  . . .  I decided Jeanne would be a fictional typeface that was released in 1918, the timeframe from the movie.’

Ascender is running a little sale on some of my fonts. 25% off until March 5, 2011. Offer only available thru Ascender’s website. For details, go here.

(and watch the trailer for MAX here)


 


 

Rag, Bone, Default

‘Rag & Bone enlists an astonishing top models cast for their SS11 campaign shoot – photographed by models themselves and their friends’

Many years ago, I worked on an ad campaign that took this candid approach. Only without the supermodels. And ultimately, without approval. Our series, targeted to IT professionals, would have been the first printed appearance of Psy/Ops’ Default Gothic – we were doing our mockups using beta versions of the fonts.

Pictured: Abbey Lee Kershaw, Sasha Pivovarova, Lily Aldridge and Edita Vilkeviciute

Found via Design Scene

Hermès, Knight

Spring 2011 campaign: Jacquelyn Jablonski photographed by Nick Knight for Hermès.

Found via Fashion Gone Rogue

‘A new kind of love’

‘On|Off announces a collaboration with creative director Tuuli, photographer Rankin, stylist Scott Robert Clark and W Hotels to produce a fashion film exploring the concepts and inspiration behind select On|Off designer’s AW11 collections’

Above and below, photos from the On|Off editorial preview; more here.

Watch the Tuuli fashion film here.

Flávia, time goes by

Self portrait, Flávia Desgranges van der Linden.

Found via Fashion Coolture

Lenka, Heart Skips

Video for Lenka’s Heart Skips a Beat.

Gwen, Fall 2011

Thursday night, Gwen Stefani’s Fall 2011 L.A.M.B. Collection closed out NY Fashion Week.

Pictured: Twitpics from backstage. Video below. More NY Fashion Week video here.

Fashion trends 2011

‘No need to gaze into a crystal ball, just watch the New York Fashion Week runways to find out what you will be wearing next Fall and Winter’

Read more here and here.

Of course, there’s more to come. London is hitting now, also Milan, Paris and (starts Thursday) Sacramento.

Irina, Fall 2011

Project Runway season 6 winner Irina Shabayeva is still out to prove something. And she’s doing a damn good job of it.

Here’s her incredible Fall/Winter 2011 collection – from this past week’s NY Fashion Week.

Found via Divas & Dorks


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