‘The world’s first 4-dimensional experience featuring 3D imagery, digital sound effects and scents from Ralph Lauren fragrances.’
On November 10, Ralph Lauren celebrated the 10 year anniversary of its website with new media ‘feasts’ at its retail flagships in London (above) and New York (below).
‘Making of’ video here.
Found via Jake Favour
Fashion blogging has created a genre all its own. And if you want to join in, Refinery29 has a great chart for how its done.
Click on the above image/jump to read the whole thing.
Then go see what Tavi or Krystal or Suzanna or Rumi or Erica or Flavia or Carolina or Meg have been up to.
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Frum Refinery29 for this week: The best outfits for overeating.
‘He has the looks of Zappa, a Jagger-swagger and is James Brown from the waist down. It’s as if you mixed 70s Bowie with Phoenix and Beck.’ -Mark Palgy of VHS or Beta
Music video for Conquistador’s Fruit Loopy.
‘Can a font change the future? On her first day back at the University, a rogue Professor sets out to avenge her missing husband – and the lost art of ink on paper – by conducting a dangerous lesson on typography. When the Professor’s lecture jumps the rails, we peer into a near future where desperate people search for the tangible in an ever more virtual age.’
Futura, as a play, is an interesting concept. It starts with a history of typography lecture – then weaves in its own story about a paperless future.
But is a type history talk good enough to stand on its own – without a play attached? The NYT thinks so. There’s a lot of cool stuff in type history.
The play closed last week, but here’s a few more details.
Found via H&FJ
‘Jean François Porchez was approached at the end of 2009 to create a set of typefaces to relaunch the Conqueror papers collection.’
Jean François Porchez’s beautiful Conqueror fonts are based on some great historical design eras – and are available free via Arjowiggins Creative Papers thru end of March 2012.
The fonts themselves are mostly caps and missing a few punctuation marks – but they also have similar widths, cool alternate characters (such as swashes) and 3D carved versions (as extras) – making them vastly interchangeable. And who knows, since they’re free, maybe they’ll conqueror the design world.
A standard commercial font license applies. Grab em here.
More details here.
Fontfabric’s free sanserif Hero fonts. Two weights, multiple language support.
Grab em here. Fontfabric has a great section of other freebies too.
Pictured: Cap Z from Penabico, a new font based freely on ‘the copperplate script styles to be found in the Universal Penman.’
Available at MyFonts. And currently trending as one of their best sellers.
More detail here.
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