There has been a trend in Europe where some really funky fonts have been showing up in editorial – sort of as a snarky way of saying, We know this isn’t right, but we’re doing it anyway. The UK edition of Elle Decoration has been playing in this arena for years, which often gives me quite the chuckle.
But . . . Paris Vogue is using Curlz. And they’re taken to task for it by 13-year-old fashion blogger Tavi.
C’mon. Paris Vogue.
Really?
Choose from two vintage stiletto dingbats.
Options are an art deco-themed pump or basic, clean lines.
Part of my Moderno Collection at Café Press, limited edition tees featuring type and dingbats from my Jeanne Moderno fonts.
‘Foo-der-ah’ – as one of my students once called it. Paul Renner’s Futura is everywhere – and here’s a write up in idsgn’s ongoing know your type series.
Or – if you really want to get your hands dirty – snag a copy of the expanded edition of Christopher Burke’s wonderful biography of Paul Renner – detailing the creation of Futura – how knock offs were released before he even finished his drawings, his arrest by the Nazis, other fonts, sketches, experiments . . . But even more, the book details philosophy, beliefs and how they contributed to the creation of types that are as fresh today as they were in the 1920s.
Did you hear that IKEA???
I miss these icons. Susan Kare developed them – and the standard city-named fonts – for the original Apple Macintosh in the early 1980s.
I particularly like the alert message guy in the right corner – a playful bitmapped take that has a similar feel as Oskar Schlemmer’s 1921 bauhaus icon.
My grungy Alta California font was inspired by Kare’s original San Francisco font; which, unfortunately hasn’t been available on a Macintosh for many years. I have a great respect for her ability to convey so many many different letters within a small 72 dpi black and white space. Unfortunately – thru gratuitous use – San Francisco did sort of become the Comic Sans of its day. Sort of.
Check out Kare’s online store for some fantastic tees and notecards. Rad digital art from a simpler era. An era that didn’t need gradients and drop shadows in order to dazzle.
And drop by the Japan-based Vintage Mac Museum to see some of Kare’s original icons in action.
If you’re one who thinks there just aren’t enough font resources worth blogging about, Johno of I Love Typography begs to differ.
His newest endeavor – the Type Daily news aggregator – will embed you in a universe of lettering arts. A one-stop-source for typography, fonts and lettering; just about all the major resources are there.
Pop by and fill that typographic need you know you have.
Neville Brody’s New Deal fonts in use, custom designed for Public Enemies
Yves Peters over at The FontFeed gives their monthly roundup of movie poster typography.
Köln-based graphic designer Tobias Battenberg projects Akzidenz Grotesk (the forerunner of Helvetica) onto industrial surfaces.
Found via Flores en el Atico
Via design*sponge
Words and Eggs has posted a bunch of cool type images, linking to some really cool design blogs. (Yes, I’ve been in quite the type mood this week – with a little bit more on the way)
Via Typoretum
Behind every well-made font is, typically, an obsessive individual who is out to make the world a beautiful place. And individuals, human beings, can be rather screwy. And here’s a book (now in paperback) about all the screwiness.
Simon Loxley’s Type: The Secret History of Letters blows the lid off of William Caslon’s wicked right cross; Stanley Morison and the Wardes; Frederic Goudy’s tarnished shining star, M.F.Benton’s ulcers and what really happened with John Baskerville’s dead body. And Eric Gill, religious sex junkie. Don’t even know where to start with that.
If you don’t think type is anything more than what’s on the font menu, stay away from this book. Because it’ll drag you into a world of intrigue, ego and dalliances with God and dog.
(Okay, that was a good sentence, but truth be told, the dog stuff isn’t in this book. You’ll need other sources for that)
Writer Ian Peacock looks at the ‘hidden power of typography’
Via the Times of London
Plus, here’s that wonderful Typographics video that’s been bouncing around, produced by Boca and Ryan Uhrich . . .
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