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Available on a shirt.

Found via Dottie Stephenie Angelique Cashero

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Pick a big letter from my Jeanne Moderno fonts – select any of the shirts available thru Zazzle – order, wait for them to custom print, watch for postal person, open box when it arrives.

Wear it with pride.

Order your own (or a few) here.

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Wear your hero. Get em here.

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Snag em here.

Found via Aaron Bell

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Great collection over at imgfave.

Found via Michael Reilly

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Found visual materials – such as ‘hardware catalogs, magazines, EU flags, product labels, forms or instructions for use,’ reorganized and reinterpreted into a poster series by students at Fachhochschule Mainz.

New order, new design. Details here (in German). Also here (in poorly translated English).

Posters (and other cool stuff) can be snagged here.

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Everything’s been done before, right? Collection of inspirational posters (and their related ilk) here.

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Part 1 of 2

‘Jim is affable and funny and incredibly humble, despite the caliber and profile of his work. It was a joy to spend time in his studio as he casually pulled from his flat files one landmark piece of design history after another.’

Stephen Coles sat down with Jim Parkinson and talked about his beginnings as a lettering artist, working at Hallmark, work for Rolling Stone, Newsweek (Dope-n-beer! Will never look at the Newsweek logo the same again), the circus and ‘cigar-smoking twits.’ FontFeed articles here, and here. Videos above (and below).

Roger Black on Jim Parkinson

Part 2 of 2

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It’s always nice when a free font is actually a damn good font.

The normal weight of Fontfabric’s new Solomon is now available free.

The catch? You have to snag your copy – thru MyFonts – before May 10, 2010.

It’s a teaser to purchase the rest, but hey – Solomon is really nifty alternate to Lubalin’s Avant Garde family.

Good type free. What’s not to love?

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This week I’m giving away a free licensed copy of Jeanne Moderno Geometrique ($32 USD value). Cause I feel like it.

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. To comment, just click the ‘comment’ link below (and please fill out all the fields).

I will randomly select one winner from the comments. The winner will be notified by email and the font will be sent via YouSendIt.

Contest ends 11 p.m. (pacific time) Friday, April 16, 2010.

And
You can also snag a print or greeting card or postcard of the above image. Zazzle does a great job with these – even though their onscreen previews look fuzzy. Been using the greeting cards a lot.

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Need good font management for your Mac? Fontcase is pretty damn cool. The interface is a lot like iTunes or Adobe Bridge.

And this week only, Fontcase is giving away 3 free licenses. To enter, just go here and follow the directions. Contest ends April 14, 2010.

(And I’m entering too – I just haven’t gotten around to paying for my own license.)

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