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Wine label inspired by the work (and life) of font designer Eric Gill (1882-1940). Student-designed project.

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i’m digging all this
I’ve had these merchandise ideas for a few years and just never got around to building them until recently. Production issues always held me up   . . .  so did fulfillment, pricing   . . .  inventory   . . .   [Read more →]

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The work of Andrew Jones, found via the Alchemy Gallery

Check out Alchemy, experimental software that merges sound with artwork.

Former student Callista sent the link to me – it’s a similar concept to a ‘glyph’ project students do in my type classes.

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The work of Niels Shoe Meulman, via Some Type of Wonderful

This comes up a lot in my type classes. Urban lettering – graffiti – is often practiced by students in my typography courses. The work is typically great, however, where things tend to fall apart is when I’m teaching traditional form, such as script or italic.

As one student put it, “in this class I learned not to be gangsta  . . . . ” [Read more →]

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get modern[o]
This is what I’ve been up to for the past year. Instead of plopping down in front of the tee vee, I decided to do something a bit more productive. [Read more →]

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I will be one of the presenters at Sacramento Pecha Kucha Night 6 [Read more →]

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This summer I moved a bunch of my fonts over to MyFonts.com. They have a been a great resource for really interesting fonts, many from independents (like myself) that don’t always make it on to mainstream radar – or get lost in very large catalogs.

Today I found that one of my newest – Escoffier Capitaux – is profiled in the Fall 2008 edition of In Your Face; written up by Joshua Lurie Terrell, founder of the Typographica blog. See: 1st column, part way down.

I’d love to see it being used in a menu somewhere. I’d been tinkering with it on and off for the past 5 years or so.

Tags: culinary, fonts, mehallo merchandise, originally posted on my myspace blog, typography by steve
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Banned from YouTube (really!) this expose by Cheshire Dave is one of my favorite documentaries. Click the image to watch.

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College zine logotype by mehallo, 1985

It was a decorative update from a plain Cooper Black version, which first appeared on the zine in 1980. I made this one using presstype and a little bit of nervous sweat.

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