‘The lettering was based both on Mayan hieroglyphics for their shape and grid-like structure and the hand painted lettering found on signs all over Mexico’

Designer Mike Abbink and Paul van der Lann’s Deuno Sans, designed for El Banco Deuno (One’s Bank) in Mexico. Details here.

Unfortunately, Deuno is not available for licensing.

Video for We Have Band’s March 22 release Divisive. Directed by Jul&Mat, produced by SoLab. From the upcoming, self-titled album WHB.

Official Website. MySpace.

Found via Jason Malmberg

Part 2

Over 2,500 logos. And six years to make.

Congratulations to Nicolas Schmerkin, François Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain and their team for winning the 2010 Best Animated Short Film Oscar for Logorama.

Watch the actual film above. Website here.

And
Snag your own downloadable copy of the film at the iTunes store – where it’s going for just a couple of bucks.

Logorama is a riveting French look at American consumerism (and film making).

‘Nope, it’s not French Connection United Kingdom. It’s plain and simply Fuck.’ -Between the Cracks magazine

Jewelry by Steven Shein.

In honor of Fuck Week, here’s some highlights from the Engrish blog.

Actual products from Asian countries where English, of course, is not the primary language. For teens, for babies, for grandpa.

Regular Engrish site here. Adult content site here.

In the shadow of the California State Assembly is Sacramento’s Fuck Fridays at the TownHouse Lounge.

Tonite: DJs Shaun Slaughter/Jon Droll, Short Circuit, a Cops and Robbers theme and one of the best fucking signs anywhere (above).

More info via Twitter, MySpace or Facebook.

And
Check out Tom Spaulding’s incredible Sacramento Signs Flickr set here.

‘This set of opening title sequences for the BBCs regional news bulletins was unveiled in 2008 as part of the Corporations attempt to create a unified brand for BBC News across all platforms (television, radio and new media).’

This is the real thing, though I prefer Michael Wood’s interpretations. Designed by Lambie-Nairn. I like the subtle nod to the Underground. More below:

In honor of Fuck Week, here’s a Helveticake. And how it was made.

Found via LAWeekly

‘TYPEFACE is a piece of custom software that translates facial dimensions into generative type design.’

By CIID student Mary Huang. Check out this detailed article at PSFK.

Oded Ezer gave a talk last Friday at the London College of Communication. He sported a ‘humble homage to the British 70-80s Punk movement: the Typo-mohawk.’

More photos here.

‘Two sets of 27 silkscreen prints based on the A-Z reproduced from photographs taken by Inez Van Lamswwerde and Vinoodh Matadin’

Here’s the Alphamen [male]. And here’s the Alphabet [female].

Designed by Paris-based studio, m/m.

Found via HelloTypo

One more by Jim Tierney.

New work posted, installations and a new shop. Go here.

Vintage covers by Alvin Lustig and more. Available thru Out of Print.

‘A chance to re-design any classic book is always exciting. Classics usually allow for a more personal interpretation, since most people are already vaguely familiar with the premise of the books, and I didn’t have to compete with one well-known cover, as I might have with a more recent book.’

The work of Jim Tierney. More book jacket details here.

Would make Doc Brown proud.

Found via ColourOfAir and Jessica Hische

Great panorama by Matt Lyon/C86 (above). Click for jump/larger view.

See more of Matt’s cool work here.

Found via Peter Crawley

If you follow Ashley Simko’s blog, you’ll notice her content flows thru related themes. This is a collection of her ampersand posts.

‘You can’t tempt a font designer with a carrot  . . .  but a nice red ampersand will do.’ -me

A while back, I was running thru Pottery Barn on my way to the Apple Store. This red one was on mark down. Marked wayyy down.

It called to me.

Some of the ampersand options available in my Jeanne Moderno fonts.

Daily ampersands over at Tumblr.

Found via Steven R. Shearer

SOTA’s Font Aid IV jumped into action a few weeks ago – to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.

The result was released today. A collaborative font that is now available here (thru Ascender). And here (thru Veer). It will be available in other places too, MyFonts later this week.

The font sells for 20 bucks (US) and all proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders to help the people of Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake.

The font consists of just under 400 ampersands from type designers from around the world – including myself (see below).

For more about ampersands, history and use, read Steve Matteson’s article here. For more about Font Aid IV, go here.

That be mine

‘Baby, you’re my Univers. Meeting you was no Akzidenz. I can see that we‘ve got a great Futura. We were Meta be together.’

Handmade by Machine’s Just My Type greeting cards. Details here. Unfortunately, only UK-shipping is available for now.

Found via cebe design

‘Love Fonts Memo is a classic memory game where it’s all about finding a matching pair of cards. At the end the player with most card pairs wins. The cards represent love stories about different kind of type faces.’

The work of Swedish design student/freelance designer Sara Strand.

Found via The Dieline

HE incredible Jessica Hische is also from Hazleton, PA.

Knows what a good Eastern Pennsylvania snack pitza is. Knows about this thing called Root Liquor (which I didn’t know about; I just know about Birch Beer, my favorite beverage from back there). And she’s been doing a drop cap a day for a few months now.

Drop caps, initial caps go wayyyy back – mainstays of illuminated manuscripts, and they’re part of the reason we’re still using caps today (for beginnings of sentences, names).

Jessica provides code to add caps to your own blog. Grab em here.

ND, as of last month, the caps are available as prints. Archival, on velvet coated fine art paper.

But that’s not all. Jessica has a bunch of other cool stuff in her store, including this wonderful ‘Day-Runining’ notepad (pics below). The pad has individual sheets one can send to unruly clients who don’t pay for your services, waste your time and – of course – ruin your day.

Order the pad here. Order the Drop Cap prints here.

And
Visit Jessica’s complete store here.

Photo by Jes Cellophane

‘Try playing the Trajan drinking game’

Find out here.

Found via Twitter.com/FontSiteDiva

Here’s a brief history of NASA’s logos, including the ‘meatball’ (above) and the ‘worm’ (below).

The worm was put to rest in 1992. If you wish, condolences can be left here.

NASA Worm

When it comes to official type, NASA is Helvetica, Futura, Times, Garamond and something  . . .  Victorian?

Article here.

Plus
Here’s a look at some goofy names for some other classic ‘bugs.’

Seven rules for understanding design and designers.

Found via sfgirlbybay

‘Vintage Ads Reveal Fashions And Trends In Type And Commercial Lettering’

Check out Vintage Ad Browser.

And
Great article about how to typographically mimic these looks at The Font Feed.

Found via The Font Feed