The work of Mark Weaver.

I really enjoyed his redesign of the incredible Paste magazine (sadly, now an online-only venture) – and do check out his Make Something Cool Every Day project.

The work of Joetta Maue.

Found via sfgirlbybay

Nina Stoessinger does great work. Pictured, a bilingual birth announcement she designed for a friend, using my Jeanne Moderno Titling font, paired with FontFont’s Dagny Thin.

She dropped a few to me in the post. It’s always great to see how my fonts end up being used.

Congratulations to the new parents – and Laura!

‘Benguiat has frequently said he chose the number 224 because it was the address of the building where he did most of his work.’

Ed Benguiat couldn’t leave well enough alone. And in 1982, created one of the funkiest versions of Caslon ever – for ITC.

I love the swoops and the ear on top of the lowercase g.

I’ve been a fan of the design work of Mark van Bronkhorst for years – and he’s just relaunched MVB fonts and fired up a new Twitter account.

And if you signup/subscribe/givehimyouremail, you’ll get cool things showing up in your inbox which will include a free copy of MVB Embarcadero Bold (a real font, worth 79 bucks)  . . .

All you have to do is go here and do what it says.

Offer ends September 15, 2010.

Found via Delve

‘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.

Another Metropolis remix (above).

The complete, newly restored Metropolis (1927) will be showing locally at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento, September 11 and 12, 2010.

Found via Alex R. Trujillo

‘Abbot Nicolaus Telegdi purchased the Vienna Jesuit press in 1577 and started to work immediately with its own worn typefaces. His first works were publications of his own speeches.’

Amondó Szegi’s take on Telegdi’s types are a well-worn set of fonts. With some kooky dingbats.

Snag em here. Or here.

It had to do with pizza.

Font Bureau’s Nick Sherman dropped by my hotel room at TypeCon in Los Angeles. He read on Twitter that I had pizza left over – and he’s a major pizza freak.

I thought I was a pizza freak, but I don’t even come close (video below).

Nick said he was up late working on something big.

Turns out this big thing is the launch of Webtype, a collaboration between Font Bureau, Ascender Corporation, Roger Black, Petr van Blokland and DevBridge.

fb’s offerings
Font Bureau makes incredible fonts – and some of their best, Benton, Interstate, Miller – are now available as reasonably-priced, optimized-for-screen Webfonts that can make html pages zing with class.

Read more about it here.

adobe throws their hat in
Meanwhile – over at TypeKit (which carries web versions of my own fonts) – the team at Adobe has also optimized some of their classics for web use.

This includes Myriad, Minion, Chaparral and (of course) Trajan. Plus, the wonderful Adobe Garamond is available thru their free trial plan. More info here.

No Adobe Caslon yet. But hey, I can dream.

Not our pizza: Photo by Nick Sherman, from his blog: Pizza Rules!

“Caslon’ is an example of what became known in the commercial world of the 20th century as a ‘brand’: a family name that was not only widely recognised by customers but which stood as a guarantee of long-standing integrity.’

William Caslon’s types keep making a comeback.

One of the first revivals was made in the late 1800s by Chiswick Press, London.

Full story here.

‘The things your teachers tell you in class are not gospel. You will get conflicting information. It means that both are wrong. Or both are true. This never stops. Most decisions are gray, and everything lives on a spectrum of correctness and suitability.’

‘Think of every project as an opportunity to learn, but also an opportunity to teach.’

A few pieces of good advice for design students from the Office of Frank Chimero.

Read all of his advice here.

Found via Saawan Ebe

‘It was Benjamin Franklin’s favorite typeface, and the first printings of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were set in Caslon.’

I am a history junkie.

And I loved the scene in HBO’s John Adams miniseries when Adams disputed the accuracy of the above painting (video, below). And how Ben Franklin’s approach to French diplomacy was more  . . .  ardent, than formal.

(I also loved how the miniseries used titled camera angles – like the United States was founded by villains from the old Batman tee vee series)

William Caslon’s fonts were the typefaces of the American Revolution.

Here’s some great reads on early American documents – as handy PDFs.

And here’s a link to John Adams on DVD.

This one is always a favorite.

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

Love this video, but  . . .  Dang!

Typos.

Found via Bwargh Von Modnar

Pages from Recueil d’Alphabets à Dessiner by René Henry Munsch (1951).

More here.

Found via Biggest Apple

Butterbeer: A heavy, butterscotch soda. Can be made with alcohol too. Here’s a basic recipe.

And here’s some alternates.

Photos via fuckyeahemmawatson; Food Network

‘Christian Schwartz has partnered with Paul Barnes to form Commercial Type, a new type foundry based in London and New York’

Pictured – some beautiful types – Austin and Giorgio – by Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes.

Visit the new foundry here. Click on the images for type info/jump.

I have my social side, and my quiet side. Need both. My quiet side results in new fonts and other creative endeavors.

Visual poem (above) by Tanya Davis.

Found via Porcelain Grotto

‘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

Los Angeles is famous for its billboards.

Pictured: 1925 promotional art for the Los Angeles real estate market by A. Asanger – from one of my favorite, inexpensive design resource books: Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style.

‘The film’s title is an allusion to Tatlin’s Tower. This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.’

Brilliantly done! From 2006.

Elegy typeface designed by Jim Wasco, 2010

“Where can I get a font of the script used for the ITC logo?’ For almost four decades, this has been one of the most frequently asked questions of ITC. The answer has always been the same: ‘You can’t. The ITC script logo is handlettering and it is not available as a font.”

Now it is. Introducing: ITC Elegy. Two years in production, Jim Wasco took apart Ed Benguiat’s original Spencerian-style script and put it back together with updated spacing and a bunch of stylistic changes.

Detailed article here.

Comparison: Elegy and the original

Found via Delve Withrington

A trailer (above) for a performance you’ll never see – because it’s already passed.

Some info here. And the trailer was released four months after the event.

So.

Just enjoy.

‘A comparison between my two new cameras: The $1,800 Canon 7D versus the brand new $50 Barbie Video Girl  . . .  available in the girlie aisle of your local Toys R Us.’ -Brandon Bloch

Found via Ashley Simko

‘I walk into a sea full of beauty’ -Brooke Burke, host

Another Jeanne Moderno spotting: Used for titles on TV Land’s third season of She’s Got The Look.

Judge Robert Verdi (above) can be really funny too. Been a fan since he was on that reality show where he used to sneak into people’s houses, redesign their rooms and make them cry at the end.

Click the above image to watch a preview/jump.

Found via Shandi Pierzina

Tons of cool vintage posted weekly – check out Hold My Gold. Tell Erica I sent you. Photography by Kristin Cofer.

Shop here. Website, blog and more here.

Jeanne Moderno spotted in the logo for Know-It-All Grrl Vintage’s Ebay shop. Though not too surprising. Know-It-All Grrl (Michelle, above) is a friend.

Cool finds, go shopping here. Facebook page here.

‘Alexa Chung visits Lily Allen and her sister Sarah Owen at their upcoming store Lucy In Disguise’

Everyone has their inspirations, their muses. And on the music front, one of mine is the incredible Chelsea Davis. I draw fonts, listen to her tracks. Design some stuff for her. She does a lot.

Chelsea’s classically trained, plays drums for theSTART, Normandie, among a few others. Her personal project is iVellora – and  . . .  great voice.

Her newest project is Volcano Dolls – a collaboration with Suicide Girl Jessica Goodwin (Google Zoli). They’ll be playing LA’s Viper Room this Friday.

Flyer (above) designed by Lux Nova. It features my 2491 font. Volcano Dolls Facebook page here – with new tracks posting soon.

‘When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got  . . .  A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.’

Short film by Patrick Boivin. Music by Blithe Field.

Found via Rachel Wells

‘CMYK Alphabet is a typographic experiment  . . .  Each letter is hand embroidered using a combination of two overlapping CMYK colours.’

Evelin Kasikov recreates a process color rosette using thread. Details here.

‘a debt to my childhood and other lives i hope i lived. inspired by words of songs that i admire.’

The work of Eran Hilleli. With climate change, the bears are losing.

Found via Monsieur Bandit

Vintage poster by Abram Games for The London Underground.

Found via Martin Klasch

Video for The Birthday Massacre’s Blue. Directed by Dan Ouellette.

TBM is now touring the domestic United States (then back to Canada). New album drops next month, track snippets here. (Hi Chibi, hi Michelle! I still want to swipe Owen’s keytar  . . . )

‘Poème électronique (Electronic Poem) was composed in 1958 by Edgard Varèse, the father of electronic music, and Iannis Xénakis, one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century, under the direction of Le Corbusier, one of the most important architects of the 20th century’

What is it? Read more here.

Erik van Blokland’s solution for obsolete iPhones.

A look at yesterday and today – spanned by 65 years.

Photoshop contructs by Sergey Larenkov. (Translated) website here.

Found via Dottie Cashero

Bitter:Sweet’s music has been bouncing around commercially the past few years. Above, Dirty Laundry. Animated. With a robot. For Zune.

Below, my fav track, The Bomb (which was used for Lipstick Jungle)   . . .

Cool website here. And fun album graphics.

Bitter:Sweet: The Bomb