the mehallo blog. beta.

‘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.

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‘Lyric video for Ceelo’s big, big single FU.’

Love this video, but  . . .  Dang!

Typos.

Found via Bwargh Von Modnar

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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

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Some modern examples of Arabic. More here.

Found via designnewz

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‘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)

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‘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.

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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 →]

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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.

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Erik Spiekermann was the guest on Design Chat last week.

Archive here. Detailed post about Spiekermann (with additional videos, links and tons more) here.

I still use his Sheep book as my intro text to the world of typography.

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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 →]

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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 →]

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