Nina Stoessinger does great work. Pictured, a bilingual birth announcement she designed for a friend, using my Jeanne Moderno Titling font, paired with FontFont’s Dagny Thin.
She dropped a few to me in the post. It’s always great to see how my fonts end up being used.
Congratulations to the new parents – and Laura!
‘Storytime, an animated short made in 1968 by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python.’
Found via Laughing Squid
‘The third issue of Avant-Garde, May 1968, ran an attention-grabbing feature entitled ‘Revaluation of the Dollar: 19 Artists Design a New One-Dollar Bill.”
I have this issue of Avant Garde. Managed to acquire a stack of them at a rummage sale. Just thumbing thru, it’s great to see the original stuff that inspired so much 1970s revivalism this past decade.
A look at the money article here.
Found via the Eye magazine blog
‘The mostly black-and-white collection of works includes ornate latticed designs and cursive phrases ‘tattooed’ with lasers into dollar bills.’
The ‘currency’ work of tattoo artist Scott Campbell.
Found via Young and Brilliant
Justine Lai’s art reminds me of the naughtiness that was typically seen in Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin’s groundbreaking Avant Garde magazine – where the ITC Avant Garde typeface was born. (Avant Garde predated Lubalin’s U&lc)
Posits the question: What would it be like to have sex with every American President?
Answer here.
Found via sfgirlbybay
‘Benguiat has frequently said he chose the number 224 because it was the address of the building where he did most of his work.’
Ed Benguiat couldn’t leave well enough alone. And in 1982, created one of the funkiest versions of Caslon ever – for ITC.
I love the swoops and the ear on top of the lowercase g.
What would William Caslon look like if he were working today?
This is one of my favorite takes on Caslon (above) – editorial designed by Mark van Bronkhorst and written by John D. Berry.
It’s the 1998 front and back cover of one of the final print issues of Upper & Lower Case magazine (and as you can see, my copy is a bit mussed up). William Caslon would be wearing a blue suit today, such is the nature of the biz.
Inside U&lc was an incredible promo for the late Justin Howes’ historically accurate ITC Founders Caslon – one of the most faithful updates ever digitized. [Read more →]
I’ve been a fan of the design work of Mark van Bronkhorst for years – and he’s just relaunched MVB fonts and fired up a new Twitter account.
And if you signup/subscribe/givehimyouremail, you’ll get cool things showing up in your inbox which will include a free copy of MVB Embarcadero Bold (a real font, worth 79 bucks) . . .
All you have to do is go here and do what it says.
Offer ends September 15, 2010.
Found via Delve
‘Moshun’s a fairly simple design – done in just two days in Illustrator and After Effects – that happens to leap, spiral, and shimmy into place.’
Moshun (pronounced Mo-shun, of course) was created by Dutch designer Jeroen Krielaars. Article (with much more detail) here.
Experimental typeface inspired by the work of Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964). Drawn in 1990 by Tobias Frere-Jones; now one of the co-owners of H&FJ.
I love how this face captures the orthogonals of the De Stijl movement, of which Rietveld’s famous Red Blue Chair was one of their icons.
Wish this Rietveld type were available somewhere.
Found via a book that I used to have – it vanished into a murky, dusty pile many, many years ago
‘Aubhaus is a constructivist and geometric font. Great for use as a big display font on titles and short texts. It features Latin and Non Latin Characters.’
Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s Aubhaus font. Available thru YouWorkForThem.
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