entries Tagged as [typography]
Ponzi
‘Printed in red on 100% recycled chipboard, this poster utilizes some of the larger wood type we have.’
YeeHaw Industries’ letterpress PONZI poster. Available here.
JCPamerica
“Every initiative we pursue,’ starting February 1, reads the press release, ‘will be guided by our core value to treat customers as we would like to be treated — fair and square.”
In just under a year, JCPenney rebrands again. Out is Helvetica, in is Gotham. Also in is a whole new approach to store organization and product pricing.
Brand New article here, press release here.
Changes start tomorrow. Bold design move, bold ad campaign.
1912 American Type Founders + more
‘Originator of Type Fashions’
American Type Founders’ complete 1912 specimen book. 1348 pages.
Entire book posted online here.
The industrial revolution changed the size of font offerings. What were once posters or broadsheets from small type foundries, ‘type specimens’ became elaborate volumes – today collected as rare editions. [Read more →]
Going West
Film for the New Zealand Book Council, produced by Colenso BBDO and animated by Andersen M Studio.
And you can snag a copy of Maurice Gee’s Going West here.
Found via Daniel Will-Harris
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handpicked posts
a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
it’s typography: film, song and dance
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
why work?
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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