‘Charting the intersection of Rural America and Contemporary Graphic Design’
The film about the Hamilton Woodtype Museum is making the rounds.
Official site here. Pictured: promo prints for the documentary.
Found via “JE NE SUIS QU’UNE PAUVRE PLUME…”
Here’s a detailed history over at Hoefler & Frere-Jones on slab serif typefaces; showcasing their new Clarendon-based Sentinel fonts.
ADAC 38th season promotional material
It’s not often one gets to meet one of their heroes.
When I was in high school, a bunch of kids thought it would be funny to sign me up for every magazine subscription they could find – by sending in a large pile of subscription cards. My parents were not amused; but it was Rolling Stone that I kept. I fell in love with the hand-inked masthead – and decided that that was what I wanted to do.
Hand-ink mastheads.
Not a big field. And who knew people actually did this? I wanted to do it, and early attempts (for my high school paper) netted not so wonderful results. Who knew that someday I’d actually be drawing fonts as a consequence.
Rolling Stone masthead by Jim Parkinson
Around five years ago, I finally met the guy behind the logotype – lettering artist Jim Parkinson. And the conversations have been great – as long as I don’t actually call him hero, he’s cool. And (who knew?) we both like fresh anchovies. Which I’ve found can gross out anyone who is eating near us.
using jim’s fonts
I used Jim Parkinson’s Sutro fonts on promotional materials for the 38th season of the Sacramento Art Directors and Artists Club. I was the newly appointed president, so I was determined to use fonts from the best of the best and (of course) Jim was on my list. [Read more →]
Award-winning magazine designer Jason Malmberg made me a logo.
He said, ‘It’s not quite what I envisioned. I’m still trying to find a way to give a lens flare TO a lens flare.’
If you don’t see the humor, you’re reading the wrong blog.
To see Jason’s real work, check out Sactown magazine, one of the best city/metropolitan magazines in the country. (So good, even local competitor Sacramento Magazine has reformatted to be a bit more like Sactown. I always see that as a nice compliment.)
But if you want the real deal, the October/November 2009 Sactown (above) just dropped. It should be showing up on select newsstands just about now (Sactown is distributed nationally). Or subscribe here.
Marko Davidovic is an artist and graphic designer out of Belgrade. I love the expressive freedom in his art – it just totally syncs with me – in each medium he works, his energy explodes.
He’s always posting something interesting on my MySpace page – ‘just fooling around,’ is his MySpace approach. His work, however – calligraphic, canvas, photographic, illustrative, digital – is something else.
He goes under the tag of d++. Find him on MySpace here.
Above: Remi Nicole tweets ‘Rrrrrrr’
Remi Nicole on MySpace.
Below: Lisa of The Veronicas tweets, ‘My favorite letter of the alphabet… ;)’
The Veronicas on MySpace.
Vintage Original Joe’s ashtray, photo by mehallo
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I was told when I released my Jeanne Moderno fonts, they’d probably end up being used on a cereal box.
Instead, I’ll settle for this cool laundry detergent box designed by Bootleg.
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