‘For the MuseumStore, typographer Jack Stauffacher designed a special line of products using the SFMOMA letters. Items include T-shirts, canvas tote bags, reusable grocery bags, mugs, ceramic double-walled coffee cups, and acrylic tumblers’
Details here. (Products are not quite at the SFMOMA site yet, hopefully they are coming soon!)
Plus
At Design Observer, Book Shelves from Stauffacher’s Greenwood Press. Photographs by Dennis Letbetter.
Knitting & Sewing Doodles, a dingbat font by Wisconsin-based Rae Kaiser. Available at MyFonts.
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‘Jim is affable and funny and incredibly humble, despite the caliber and profile of his work. It was a joy to spend time in his studio as he casually pulled from his flat files one landmark piece of design history after another.’
Stephen Coles sat down with Jim Parkinson and talked about his beginnings as a lettering artist, working at Hallmark, work for Rolling Stone, Newsweek (Dope-n-beer! Will never look at the Newsweek logo the same again), the circus and ‘cigar-smoking twits.’ FontFeed articles here, and here. Videos above (and below).
Roger Black on Jim Parkinson
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It’s always nice when a free font is actually a damn good font.
The normal weight of Fontfabric’s new Solomon is now available free.
The catch? You have to snag your copy – thru MyFonts – before May 10, 2010.
It’s a teaser to purchase the rest, but hey – Solomon is really nifty alternate to Lubalin’s Avant Garde family.
Good type free. What’s not to love?
Need good font management for your Mac? Fontcase is pretty damn cool. The interface is a lot like iTunes or Adobe Bridge.
And this week only, Fontcase is giving away 3 free licenses. To enter, just go here and follow the directions. Contest ends April 14, 2010.
(And I’m entering too – I just haven’t gotten around to paying for my own license.)
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