In addition to eating pizza, Nick Sherman designs cool interactive stuff.
Over at MyFonts, Nick’s incredible interface is not only for buying fonts, but a jumping off portal for font cataloging and research. At the bare minimum, I like to use my own RSS feed for previews.
Nick’s latest idea: Webtype’s Font Swapper (pictured above).
Type in any (CSS-coded) website, see what it looks like with types from the Webfonts library.
Jo Soares’ Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist. Cover designed by Evan Gaffney (with Futura doing the type honors).
Found via The Book Cover Archive
‘i named this masterpiece after Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth’
Funky, Futuraesque Thurston font, sketched by Eric Wiryanta.
Free download here.
Sonic Youth: Becuz
‘For less than the price of a design textbook, a student can now have a sturdy and contemporary humanist sans serif family that fits pretty much any design application, and will remain useful long after academic studies and well into a professional career in design.’
Gibson is a humanist sans serif honoring designer John Gibson, designed by Rod McDonald and digitized by Patrick Griffin and Kevin King.
And it’s available at student pricing: Eight complete fonts for $48 (that comes out to six bucks a font). With revenues benefiting The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC).
‘Karbon is an open, geometric sans serif with a contemporary spartan finish.’
Kris Sowersby’s beautiful Karbon fonts. Purchase thru Village.
Found via Mark Milic
‘The ‘ella’ on Barbarella was probably suggested by Feiffer’s Passionella, a brilliant satire on the Cinderella theme and much of American culture.’
In 1966, French scifi comic Barbarella was published in a the US in a translated edition.
Minimal color, racy stories. Robot sex.
The original, a serialized comic strip, was created in 1962 by Jean-Claude Forest for V magazine. [Read more →]
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