entries Tagged as [typography]
Kafka Chandler 42
Even more free wallpapers by Arno Kathollnig . . .
Franz Kafka Trilogy – featuring my own Chandler 42 fonts (with some pointing hands from Alta California).
Futura Maschine 2011
‘Paul Renner’s Futura interpreted in metal’
Handmade model with engine. Cesar Santos Perez’s final project from my most-recent experimental typography course at Ai Sacramento.
George Charles, I Madonnari
My cousin – former Disney Animation engineer George Charles Polchin – has taken up painting. Pictured, his most recent work from the Santa Barbara 2011 I Madonnari festival.
Head Like a Kite redux
From my intermediate typography course: Student Allie Olcese’s experimental redesign of CD packaging for Head Like a Kite’s Random Portraits of the Home Movie.
Interpretative imagery veers from found photography, illustration, finger paints to hypodermic needles, gummy worms and tin foil – rendered in subdued, faded colors.
The final piece is housed in a wire-bound album, accented with carefully set 1970s-style shareware type.
Chandler in Oz
‘inspiring homes with heart’
Magazines are great sources for inspiration. Not as permanent as a logo – or brand – periodicals have a timer on them. After a few months, they’re gone.
A good newsstand is a treasure trove of the experimental, conservative, international, concise, good, bad, ugly. I drop by whatever I can find – even the Barney Noble chain if one is not nearby – just for a shot in the arm.
Earlier this year I spotted Chandler 42 being used in an Australian interiors pub. Alexendria-based Inside Out is using my typewriter type as a nice accent throughout their pages.
Here’s a few snaps (taken in my new home office – sleepy dog in background).
Mercedes typewriter
Mercedes Schreibmaschine poster by Ernst Dryden, 1911.
Goncharova, 1913
‘She did not hesitate to break up forms and rearrange their component parts. She introduced musical notation, letters and words, as they flash past in shop signs; she expressed movement by repeating the same form in several phases of its action and velocity by blurring contours.’ –Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings
The work of Natalya Goncharova (1881-1962).
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defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
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