‘It’s an amalgamation of ‘sign’ (Korean written language) and ‘space’: signs become spaces, and spaces become signs’
The South Korean pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Designed by Mass Studies. More info here.
Found via Poketo
Svend Smital’s Super Grotesk used on the cover of Brendan I. Koerner’s Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II.
Found via The Book Cover Archive
‘My father gave me some magazines from the 1920s and 1930s’
Hannes von Döhren’s Brandon Grotesque, influenced by early geometric types – available in six weights with true italics.
One of TDC’s 2011 award winners. Available thru HvD Fonts.
Dmitriy Antropov’s final project was a Gill Sans maze, hand crafted from foam.
After we tried to actually do the maze (and failed), Dmitriy reached down and carefully removed a small partition – near the bottom of the a – and we were able to complete.
‘escaping the norm’
Just finished up my Friday night beginning type course – and final projects can take any form. Last night, Christopher Gianni-Embrey showed up for class with an old computer monitor.
Inspired by a recent viewing of The Shawshank Redemption, Christopher visualized the word ‘escaping’ using Morris Fuller Benton’s Bank Gothic.
Not on screen, but in screen.
The final piece was Christopher’s first ever attempt at model making. It was crafted from mostly found materials. As he put it, ‘driving around town, there’s a lot of stuff people throw away.’
In the process, he ended up with a bunch of dead computer monitors – just in case the first attempt didn’t pan out.
My next Friday night type course is scheduled for Fall 2011 at American River College. Course number: ARTNM 303.
‘Azuro, the first typeface that’s perfect for reading on screens’
FontShop has released Georg Seifert’s Azuro. Humanist in origin, with large counters and oldstyle numerals; Azuro has been tested in all current on screen media, including Apple’s iOS.
Gizmodo review here. FontShop details here.
And Azuro is on sale – 90% off – thru May 31, 2011.
Also check out Seifert’s Graulau Sans, types he started working on while studying at Bauhaus University, Weimar.
In addition to eating pizza, Nick Sherman designs cool interactive stuff.
Over at MyFonts, Nick’s incredible interface is not only for buying fonts, but a jumping off portal for font cataloging and research. At the bare minimum, I like to use my own RSS feed for previews.
Nick’s latest idea: Webtype’s Font Swapper (pictured above).
Type in any (CSS-coded) website, see what it looks like with types from the Webfonts library.
Jo Soares’ Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist. Cover designed by Evan Gaffney (with Futura doing the type honors).
Found via The Book Cover Archive
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