This week, Jeanne Moderno ended up with the dubious honor of being on the
Merkwürdige Schriften 2009 (Strange Types 2009) list over at Slanted.
Thanks guys! Strange, that would be the best way to put it.
Here’s a link. Here’s the same link translated into dubious English.
As a thank you for everyone who entered my contest, I’m offering 30% off the purchase of any Jeanne Moderno font at MyFonts.
Please use this discount code: MEHALLOBLOGBONUS
Discount applies to single weights or for the complete family. Discount code is required, input at checkout. Offer available only thru MyFonts. Promo ends Monday, February 8, 2010.
Go here to order.
New blog posts coming later today (I’ll be back on a mostly daily schedule) . . .
The results are in! Our winners are . . .
[1] suresh
comment Wow! Font giveaway! Thanks a lot!
[2] rrriles
comment Can’t pass up an opportunity for free fonts!
[3] reece butler
comment What a nice site you have here. I must say that it’s always nice to stumble upon a new hidden gem (even if it involved dangling a carrot like a free font to get me here). You can be sure I’ll be back.
[4] matt v
comment those are definitely some good posts! also, i am entering! i know there is almost a 1% chance i will win, which will diminish significantly as it draws closer to the 16th, but what the hell!
[5] amanda
comment January 16 is my birthday. ;)
Each have won a complete, licensed set of Jeanne Moderno fonts: All 9 OpenType fonts, $99 USD value. Emails have been sent out to the winners. Please contact me directly if my emails vanish into the spam filter ether.
also
Stay tuned, I have something planned for everyone who entered. I will post in a bit.
Image of IBM’s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (c. 1948) found via Boing Boing Gadgets
Okay, I lied.
There were more than the last 45. I’m including 15 additional blog highlights below.
Also, I’m posting these just so you have something to read while we organize the comments from the contest and figure out the winners. The contest just ended – AND majorly huge, HUGE thank you for all the notes! I was expecting just ‘here’s my comment’ but got so much more. It really means a lot. I’ll do my best in the coming weeks to keep things flowing as – sporadically as I can.
We have a hat.
It was my dad’s, a Dobbs/Roos Atkins original from the 1950s. We’re putting everyone’s name on slips of paper, throwing them in the hat and my wife (who the fonts were named after) will draw the winners.
So give us a bit to do all this, we’ll post the results in a short while.
Here’s more highlights from 2009 . . .
[46] djg design
[47] asbestos press
[48] pioneers of modern typography
[51] stefan hattenbach: fine swedish type
[52] yakov g. chernikov
[53] too many type issues, so little time
[54] us interstate, london underground map
[55] star trek production design of the 1960s
[56] this is cbs
[57] the cynic
[58] taking a break, simulated veterans day
[59] wolf
[60] dreams
I’ve decided to start the new year off with a break.
So . . . here’s (my) 45 favorite posts of 2009! Should be enough to keep you reading till I post again (which will be in about two weeks).
As a thank you to everyone who has been reading my blog, sending me emails, even clicking ‘like’ on the Facebook page – in general, supporting my antics online – I’d like to show my appreciation. I’ve decided it’s time for a good old fashioned Jeanne Moderno font giveaway!
To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. To comment, just click the ‘comment’ link below (and please fill out all the fields).
I will randomly select five winners from the comments. Each winner will receive a complete, licensed set of Jeanne Moderno fonts: All 9 OpenType fonts, $99 USD value. This is them here.
Contest ends 11 p.m. (pacific time) Saturday, January 16, 2010.
And now, here’s the best of the mehallo blog 2009 . . .
[1] ‘as simple as possible, but not simpler’ –einstein
[3] citysounds.fm: what does your city sound like?
[5] julien breton: light calligraphy
[6] liquid glee!
[7] tschichold: distinguisted typographer
[8] dürer’s rhino
[9] wood type
[11] the cbs gastrotypographicalassemblage
[12] eating out
[13] a joe’s primer
[14] eggs and sausage with a side of type . . .
[15] late night chocolate
[16] jamie oliver: great chef, beautiful magazine
[17] children of the corn
[18] scribbling the corn field!
[21] just thinking
[22] information design: life, death, taxes and spam
[24] disgust this
[25] ‘ruin porn’ – the cliché of abandoned detroit
[26] war commentary
[27] what it really takes to build a global community
[28] good is obvious
[29] paperbag parachute
[30] star trek-n-me
[31] the abc movie
[32] a drive in break
[33] big 40 poster
[34] in defense of myspace: good music, art and real shit
[35] ‘vulgarize !!! buy !!! + porn + ! or die !’ -chymer
[36] dan herrera: estan de una herencia extraña
[37] good grade: d++
[38] jack marchment: electroacoustic audioprose
[39] *meiko
[40] really simple
[41] blackbird
[42] the notebooks of audrey kawasaki
[43] annie is deranged
[44] sew cool
[45] hurr
If 45 isn’t enough, please select from the archive at right. At current count, there’s over 500 blurgs to pour thru, with more on the way.
‘Chernikov drew by hand what today can seem only possible with a computer.’
I Love Typography takes a look at the limited edition monograph Graphic Masterpieces of Yakov G. Chernikhov: The Collection of Dmitry Y. Chernikov. Chernikhov’s work is on par with Dürer or Tory. Read more here.
Prep
Experimental, architectural, typographic. The work of UK-based Peter Crawley.
Follow the progress of his latest piece (pictured) on Twitter.
Detail
Midway
Plus
Here’s an interview over at Ape on the Moon.
And
A link to the final product.
Found via Natasha Newton
I’m going gaga over the Poker Neutra Face video (above).
Neutraface in use in the Quantum of Solace (2008) logo (below).
The Neutraface fonts are a product of House Industries.
Click on the above images to jump to places/articles.
Found this while browsing around: Make your own custom holiday card, featuring one of my Jeanne fonts. Card design by Emily Potts.
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