The Sacramento Bee redesign, as posted on Font Bureau’s Facebook page. Fonts used include Benton Sans, Miller, Miller Daily and Miller Headline
A few years back, I was the art director for a reincarnation of The Sacramento Bee’s long time rival, The Sacramento Union.
In this version, The Union was reimagined as a magazine. We did just a handful of issues, the design concept was: ‘newspaper in magazine’ format . . . [Read more →]
Typophile Film Fest 5 Trailer from Typophile on Vimeo
Preview for Punchcut’s 5th Typophile Film Fest. Typographic films, shorts and more. Here’s a list of who’s showing.
The Fest is confirmed for Typ09, the 2009 ATypI conference in Mexico City, October 29th. And coming to other places too.
Wine label inspired by the work (and life) of font designer Eric Gill (1882-1940). Student-designed project.
‘Graphic designers were never meant to set type . . . That’s what typesetters are for.’
I’m not even sure who said this, it was early on; probably college. Possibly a printer, maybe Roger. Roger would say stuff like that. He’d swear to the ‘ITC god’ and he had the old dusty Varitype machine sitting in the corner to prove it. [Read more →]
i’m digging all this
I’ve had these merchandise ideas for a few years and just never got around to building them until recently. Production issues always held me up . . . so did fulfillment, pricing . . . inventory . . . [Read more →]
Jeanne Moderno Bold is this week’s featured font at Typophile; it’s being used for heads, titles etc. The experimental background on the home page changes as users post messages.
And huge thanks to Psy/Ops for not only doing the final mastering of the font, but also setting up this deal (actually, advertisement).
get modern[o]
This is what I’ve been up to for the past year. Instead of plopping down in front of the tee vee, I decided to do something a bit more productive. [Read more →]
This summer I moved a bunch of my fonts over to MyFonts.com. They have a been a great resource for really interesting fonts, many from independents (like myself) that don’t always make it on to mainstream radar – or get lost in very large catalogs.
Today I found that one of my newest – Escoffier Capitaux – is profiled in the Fall 2008 edition of In Your Face; written up by Joshua Lurie Terrell, founder of the Typographica blog. See: 1st column, part way down.
I’d love to see it being used in a menu somewhere. I’d been tinkering with it on and off for the past 5 years or so.
Roman lettering study by James Yassie from steve mehallo’s beginning typography course, Fall 2005
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the type courses I teach. [Read more →]
Banned from YouTube (really!) this expose by Cheshire Dave is one of my favorite documentaries. Click the image to watch.
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College zine logotype by mehallo, 1985
It was a decorative update from a plain Cooper Black version, which first appeared on the zine in 1980. I made this one using presstype and a little bit of nervous sweat.
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