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Street ‘font’

Photo taken off 101 in San Jose, Spring 1993.

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Interview: Futura

‘Known for pioneering a more abstract style of graffiti writing, Futura played a major role in the NYC’s graffiti scene of the 70s’

Above, interview with Leonard Hilton McGurr a.k.a. Futura 2000. Website here.

Futura 2000 feat. The Clash: The Escapades Of Futura 2000

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Radio Futura: No Tocarte

Video for Radio Futura’s No Tocarte.

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Futura Mix

‘As you work’

NYC-based Natasha Cooper is Coco Black. And Coco Futura is her site.

Her Futura Mix is music to listen to as you work, sleep, play.

Go here – click, download, share.

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Futura and Cash

‘You can’t go wrong with a bit of Johnny Cash.’

Colin Evoy Sebestyen’s Futura Animated – motion-ready Futura recreated as a LiveFont. Technical details here.

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Futura and yellow bricks

From 1973: Elton John, Silhouette Futura sunglasses, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

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‘I survived the Rapture’

Love The Barry Gibb Talk Show.

New one aired tonite. Click to view/jump.

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Coolness: Stippled Conan

‘it took a week to do it’

For anyone who’s taken an intro to typography course with me – there is a fair amount of stippling involved as part of some really complex letterform studies.

And one of my former students – Freya Kiessling – who dotted her way thru letters – has gone national with her work.

Her color Conan O’Brien pointillism illustration (above) was used as a bumper on Conan’s show, April 11, 2011. The drawing was submitted thru their Coco MoCA page (many, many images abound).

And today – per show request – a print hangs in the show’s green room at Warner Bros. in Burbank.

Below, another Freya-produced Conan piece – from a beginning animation class.