“Our second film is Monster From the Ocean Floor. This movie is so bad that it was delivered to Channel 2 in a brown paper bag. When we’re through showing it tonight, it will be part of a garage sale in Alameda tomorrow.”
Bob Wilkins was this incredible host of a late night horror television show back in the 1970s. And he really hated horror movies, which made the show all the more sublime. [Read more →]
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.
Here’s a sampling of The New York Times’ fav book covers of 2008 . . .
And I have egg on my face.
Christopher Le, a former student of mine, came up with a similar idea for a similar book (in my old publication design class). And I kinda talked him into doing something else:
Thanks for Campbell for sending this link over.
Roman lettering study by James Yassie from steve mehallo’s beginning typography course, Fall 2005
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the type courses I teach. [Read more →]
I’ve been working on this one for a few months and as I write this we’re about 1/2 way thru set up. [Read more →]
I like to think globally (or at least, I think I do).
This morning I ran across this analysis of the United States – via Gawker, published in Der Spiegel.
I find the P.O.V. fascinating to digest, and decided to repost it – wondering what other opinions would be. It has some inflammatory comments, but I appreciate the blunt language and directness of the text. It is an opinion piece – one agrees, disagrees, digests.
What do you think?
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.
What was going through your mind during your last kiss?
Oh baby yeah baby that’s it yeah oh baby yeah you know yeah you know baby yeah drink Coca-Cola yeah baby that’s it yeah baby oh yeah a Big Mac would be good right now oh baby yeah you know it baby yeah baby yeah yeah yeah
How did you do on the last test you took?
Completely bombed it, and it was important. and now I’m sort of screwed. ended up with a drinking problem, drug use, joined the army, get to see the world and they’ve promised me I get to be in the marching band. [Read more →]
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