entries Tagged as [graphic design]

Hattenbach profiled

‘it is a passion and a drug’

Swedish type designer Stefan Hattenbach makes incredible letterforms. And his body of typographic work has run the range from experimental to traditional and experimental traditional. They’re always a pleasure to set on a page.

This month, Stefan’s one of MyFonts’ Creative Characters.

Read the interview here.

Check out Stefan’s website here.

mehallo fonts on sale

‘Another inspiration was the film MAX (2002), written and directed by one of Emigre magazine’s founders, Menno Meyjes  . . .  I decided Jeanne would be a fictional typeface that was released in 1918, the timeframe from the movie.’

Ascender is running a little sale on some of my fonts. 25% off until March 5, 2011. Offer only available thru Ascender’s website. For details, go here.

(and watch the trailer for MAX here)


 


 

Rag, Bone, Default

‘Rag & Bone enlists an astonishing top models cast for their SS11 campaign shoot – photographed by models themselves and their friends’

Many years ago, I worked on an ad campaign that took this candid approach. Only without the supermodels. And ultimately, without approval. Our series, targeted to IT professionals, would have been the first printed appearance of Psy/Ops’ Default Gothic – we were doing our mockups using beta versions of the fonts.

Pictured: Abbey Lee Kershaw, Sasha Pivovarova, Lily Aldridge and Edita Vilkeviciute

Found via Design Scene

Hermès, Knight

Spring 2011 campaign: Jacquelyn Jablonski photographed by Nick Knight for Hermès.

Found via Fashion Gone Rogue

Shadows, diamonds, black salt

The work of Justin M. Maller.



Found via Cretique

Helvetica blahs

Helvetica wallpaper by Lurino.

Helvetica love

Old home page for ‘Helvetica Lovers Anonymous.’

Click to jump/view larger. From 2004.

Font sex

‘Unlike conventional fonts, Chan’s Sade fonts are comprised of sexual phrases and sentence fragments rather than letters, so that what is typed on the keyboard is not what appears on the screen.’

Type a letter, get a phrase. Type a sentence, get a story.

18 TrueType fonts by Paul Chan. Download them free here.

Found via Fleshbot

NY, the very good type

Typography from New York magazine.

Found via mslk

SPY, the very good (Google) archive

‘[Spy] was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all.’ –Dave Eggers

SPY Magazine. The New York monthly. The most influential magazine of its time. The Rosetta Stone of modern periodical publishing. Really.

SPY took celebrities and the super rich to task for being, well, celebrities and super rich. Donald Trump was a frequent target. And the best part: SPY was caustically funny and incredibly smart in the way it did what it did. [Read more →]

Emma’s fair trade love

Emma Watson continues her ‘eco clothing’ collaboration with People Tree.

More info here and here.

New items below, click to view/jump. The rest of the collection drops February 28.

   


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