entries Tagged as [fonts]

The Ballet Font Project

‘The resulting font is based on the physical movements of two Oregon ballet dancers  . . .  The dancers were fitted with infrared LED lights, which captured their steps in real time as they danced all 26 letters of the alphabet.’

Typography combined with ballet. Details (and final font) here.

Found via Lyndsie Ross

She’s Got The Look

‘I walk into a sea full of beauty’ -Brooke Burke, host

Another Jeanne Moderno spotting: Used for titles on TV Land’s third season of She’s Got The Look.

Judge Robert Verdi (above) can be really funny too. Been a fan since he was on that reality show where he used to sneak into people’s houses, redesign their rooms and make them cry at the end.

Click the above image to watch a preview/jump.

Found via Shandi Pierzina

Vintage Gold

Tons of cool vintage posted weekly – check out Hold My Gold. Tell Erica I sent you. Photography by Kristin Cofer.

Shop here. Website, blog and more here.

Vintage find

Jeanne Moderno spotted in the logo for Know-It-All Grrl Vintage’s Ebay shop. Though not too surprising. Know-It-All Grrl (Michelle, above) is a friend.

Cool finds, go shopping here. Facebook page here.

Volcano!

Everyone has their inspirations, their muses. And on the music front, one of mine is the incredible Chelsea Davis. I draw fonts, listen to her tracks. Design some stuff for her. She does a lot.

Chelsea’s classically trained, plays drums for theSTART, Normandie, among a few others. Her personal project is iVellora – and  . . .  great voice.

Her newest project is Volcano Dolls – a collaboration with Suicide Girl Jessica Goodwin (Google Zoli). They’ll be playing LA’s Viper Room this Friday.

Flyer (above) designed by Lux Nova. It features my 2491 font. Volcano Dolls Facebook page here – with new tracks posting soon.

Arial: ‘Bullshit’

Did Arial kill Helvetica? Or is it just bullshit?

Australia-based Hungry Beast correspondent Marc Fennell thinks it’s an ‘usurping bitch.’

It’s Typography: Big screen premiere this Friday

The Sacramento International Film and Music Festival is underway – and this Friday night, my students’ type film (above) will be shown as part of the Art Institute’s Student Showcase, 6 p.m., July 30 at The Crest.

Festival details here.

Official It’s Typography website here.

Alta Cal

My font named for Northern California, warzone and great place to buy a damn good burrito.

Get the font here. Burrito here.

Emigre, picking fonts and the war in California

‘The pairing and combining of different typefaces has always been a particular graphic design challenge  . . .  Emigre has its own take on this typographic technique. But instead of providing rules, which often render safe but bland results, we believe that ultimately any font can be successfully combined with any other font. It’s not so much a matter of which font combinations to pick, it’s a matter of how you use the fonts in combination.’

The latest Emigre font catalog – Historia – is a bit like an old issue of Emigre magazine. Strong concept, interesting point of view, wonderfully designed.

The 64-page specimen highlights battlefield locations of the Mexican-American war, 1846-48; specifically, the battles that took place in what is now California. [Read more →]

Free AGE font

Fontfabric’s new retro font, AGE. Snag it free here.

Public Gothic goes international

Antrepo‘s Public Gothic fonts are now available in 42 languages. Details here.


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