Great post over at McSweeney’s – written by Comic Sans. Enjoy it here.
I actually like Comic Sans. It’s not great, but I love its unintentional subversive nature. It just gets used a whole lot for really stupid stuff. By people who don’t know what they hell they’re doing. But I’d absolutely love one of my fonts to be as notorious.
OEM licensing for Chandler 42 anyone?
Also found by former student, Ai Buenafe
‘Real time: 1 hour 28 minutes, footage was recorded nonstop in one sitting. I was going as fast as I could so there are some imperfections here and there.’
Student Tony Wang’s final project from my experimental typography course at The Art Institute of California Sacramento. Tony spent the past eleven weeks doing a multifaceted study of the work of Hermann Zapf.
It culminated in the above video – vector-based drawings/tracings of Zapfino caps.
Each drawing was hand rendered (no live trace) in Adobe Illustrator. (For my beginning courses, students have to draft letterforms by hand with pencil/compass. Tony’s beautifully realized final is the next logical step in the process.)
‘This typeface, titled ‘Meisky,’ was designed for a San Francisco fashion designer. With slim lines, geometrically balanced proportions and high contrast’ -kb
Fashion typeface designed by (a former student of mine) Kile Brekke. More details here.
My wife is a Scrabble phenom. And one of her hush-hush strategies is the legal two letter words one can use in play.
For one of my specimens for my Chandler 42 fonts (above), she created a connected word chart listing these and a few others.
‘I was at a department store here in Basel and this in-store magazine caught my eye. The focus is Barcelona and all the headings are set in what must be Jeanne Moderno!’ -Nina
Nina Stössinger not only snagged me a copy of Globus Savoir Vivre‘s Barcelona issue; she also popped it in the mail. It just arrived a couple days ago.
It’s always great to see my fonts in use. Especially when the designer uses my funky accents.
First two photos by Nina Stössinger, the rest by mehallo
‘I tried to make small details count by making them meaningful, fun, playful, full of color, yet useful and sustainable . . . With artwork, we involved Twitter employees and local artists, 3 Fish Studios.’ -Sara
A Jeanne Moderno t graces the Cafe area at Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco.
Am I honored? Of course. Twitter has become one of my favorite screwy things to do.
Interiors designed by Sara Morishige. Fonts were sourced via the supercool Bryan Mason at Typekit.
More details here. Additional photos here.
That be a Jeanne t, at right
These two oversized coffee table books – which were published in the past year or so – are an odd sort.
Both volumes of Type A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles sell themselves as design history books.
They have the current editor of Meggs (and similar cover design), but the history is really just a backdrop (with, unfortunately, poorly annotated notes) to what the books are all about: They’re actually an incredible collection of rare typography specimens dated c. 1830-1930. [Read more →]
David M. Anderson’s Chaotic Times of Cooper Black, 2008. Mixed media on canvas.
Based on the type of Ozwald Cooper (1879-1940). From my Typography 3 course at Art Institute of California Sacramento.
Chandler 42 was one of my first typefaces – and one of the earliest ‘grunge’ typewriter font packages to hit the market.
It has details in it one won’t see in other autotraced typewriter adaptations. Eight fonts in the complete package. Snag your copy here.
Click on the above image to read/jump. Mood music below.
Randy Brooks And His Orchestra: Harlem Nocturne
‘Drawing inspiration from WWII German Autobahn road signs and Helmut Lang’
Berkeley-based Autograph Creative’s United Nations poster and typeface.
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