“Every initiative we pursue,’ starting February 1, reads the press release, ‘will be guided by our core value to treat customers as we would like to be treated — fair and square.”
In just under a year, JCPenney rebrands again. Out is Helvetica, in is Gotham. Also in is a whole new approach to store organization and product pricing.
Brand New article here, press release here.
Changes start tomorrow. Bold design move, bold ad campaign.
‘Originator of Type Fashions’
American Type Founders’ complete 1912 specimen book. 1348 pages.
Entire book posted online here.
The industrial revolution changed the size of font offerings. What were once posters or broadsheets from small type foundries, ‘type specimens’ became elaborate volumes – today collected as rare editions. [Read more →]
Film for the New Zealand Book Council, produced by Colenso BBDO and animated by Andersen M Studio.
And you can snag a copy of Maurice Gee’s Going West here.
Found via Daniel Will-Harris
2011 was one crazy year. Full of curve balls, knuckle sandwiches.
Thanks for your reads in 2011. Up next, more boldness. Looking forward.
Pictured is an image from an upcoming project I’ve been working on as of late – which with some luck and spit, should see the light of day in the next few months. Click to view larger. Powered, of course, by Gill Kayo.
‘the story of the rise and fall of Black Horse Disco, a youth club set up in the centre of a large working-class estate in North London’
Knuckle Sandwich. Cover photographed by Red Saunders, a.k.a MC Redman. Powered by Gill Kayo. Details.
The Clash: What’s My Name
Found via The Pelican Blog
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