‘Joos is a revival of an upright italic created in 1536 in Gent. This work is not a formal revival but it faithfully fits into the scheme of Joos Lambrecht (punchcutter), which was to idealize roman types by bringing together the characteristic graceful shapes of italics and the angularity of romans.’
Not all Italics are slanted – they have their origins in calligraphy.
More about Laurent Bourcellier’s beautiful Joos fonts here.
Found via Colin M. Ford
The work of Mabona Origami for ASICS. Creative director: Lars Rühmann, Nordpol+ Hamburg.
Found via Gábor Kóthay
Money designed by Art Nouveau painter/illustrator Alphonse Mucha for the Republic of Czechoslovakia, circa 1919-29.
‘The video was fourteen months in production. Seven months in notes, research, photography, pre-production, art work and direction. It was then all sent to Philip James Cheaney with full trust and faith and he knocked it out of the park with seven more months of motion work and additional art and direction elements. It wouldn’t work without him. We’re working together under the title of Mur Mur Man Productions’ -DJG
Introducing: The first music video directed (and designed) by my friend, Danny J. Gibson. And animated by Philip James Cheaney.
Video for David Seume’s Will Ya Be My Friend, download the debut single here. From the album It Is What It Is.
Danny’s been working with David Seume since November 2008. Images of DJG’s production art can be found on Flickr. And pre-motion art can be found here.
Video for Seabear’s I’ll Build You a Fire. Directed by Máni Sigfússon. From the new album, We Built a Fire.
Seabear’s official site here.
‘Some of my favorite assignments are posters and program flyers for conferences dealing with complex subjects. This one was about patterns, forms, functions and aesthetics of sacrificial rituals. Raster design with blood (OK, beet juice)!’
The work of Nina Stössinger.
More project details in her blog post here.
Or you can read it in the original German here, or in bad Google translated English here.
‘Guilloché machines (also known as geometric lathes) have been used since the 17th century by watchmakers and goldsmiths, such as Fabergè, for ornamentation.’
Subblue’s Guilloché Pattern Generator.
Found via Nina Stössinger
‘Anyone who was following my Twitter personal account at the time may have noticed a fair bit of bitching about Illustrator’s pathfinder tools’
Aegir Hallmundur’s beautiful money illustration for Wired magazine. Details (and design considerations) here.
Again, can’t we just let someone like Aegir design our currency? Pleeease??
Found via expiro
‘My currency work originated in California, while I was studying at UC Davis. I was very interested in camouflage at the time. This interest led me to create my first paintings on dollar bills, between 1992-94, in which I camouflaged/painted images onto and into bills. A death in the family led me to the east coast, and faced with the costs of living in New York City on an artist’s budget, I continued to paint on money.’ -HvG
Hanna von Goeler’s My Money, My Currency series. Details (and more work) here.
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