‘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.
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. [Read more →]
“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.’
‘Realize that you are learning a trade, so craft matters more than most say.’
‘Libraries are a good place. The books are free there, and it smells great.’
‘Don’t become dependent on having other people pull it out of you while you’re in school. If you do, you’re hosed once you graduate.’
‘Everything is interesting to someone. That thing that you think is bad is probably just not for you.’
‘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.
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