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GEOTYPOGRAFIKA
New images for the Geotypografika collection. Above: New images from the streets of Amsterdam, where I am fortunate enough to be spending a few days. A new Geotypografika Flickr set has just been uploaded, you can find images from 2005-07 here. The images in both sets are mostly graphic and typographic...
Pink Hobo Gallery / QR Code Show
Fitting end to Flashbelt 7.0 tonight. Above: Via Pink Hobo Gallery here in Minneapolis. Bring your QR Code reader to the gallery opening tonight (June 16, 2010. 7:00pm to 11:00pm/map.), and find your way to “images, music, video, data visualization, and interactive experiences.” This group show will feature work by Eight...
I promise. Above: BOOTIE RIO NO COQUETEL DE ABERTURA DO FESTIVAL PAREDE. A poster festival in Rio de Janeiro, more info is also available via their website. Related posts:O GloboRene Wanner / Chaumont 2009Shungu / The Resilience of a People Related posts:O GloboRene Wanner / Chaumont 2009Shungu / The Resilience of a People...
A few days at the beach. Above: Sunset with dolphins. Roanoke Sound, NC. Geotypografika OBX is now uploaded to Flickr, hope you enjoy a few images from this recent trip. More images here, Geotypografika OBX. Related posts:VCU Visit March 2010Julián Naranjo / Diseño por Chile 2010Final NYT Grid Shorts Related posts:VCU Visit March 2010Julián...
SVA to exhibit SocialDesignZine’s posters for Iran. Above: My own contribution to last year’s SocialDesignZine’s web exhibit, now set to become reality at the SVA Visual Arts Gallery in NYC this Fall. June 12, 2010 marks one year since the infamous elections in Iran, where the Green Wave had first risen....
陳 Jon Tan
This image shows a particular optical illusion that confronts us every day. Notice the difference between the black text on a white background and the reverse. With reversed type — light text on a darker background — the strokes seem bolder. Black text on white is very familiar, so we can be forgiven for thinking...
The world has changed. Everything we do is more immediately visible to others than ever before, but much remains the same; the relationships we develop are as important as they always were. This post is a few thoughts on self-promotion, and how to have good relationships as a self-publisher. Meeting people...
Last Wednesday I turned up in front of a friendly bunch of designers and developers at BathCamp — a regular and excellent monthly event in the city next door. Thanks to Mike Ellis for inviting me at the last minute, and everyone who attended. That day I’d roughly cobbled together a few...
Just before Christmas, a few friends and I launched a new company, Analog. Writing this, I’m still a little surprised at the praise from all those generous people about the holding page. After all, to me, analog.coop is just that: a little holding page. We did work hard on it...
I know I’m woefully late. Voting ends today! I don’t really mind, though. It embodies this restful period I’m having. However, I did want to write a bit about SxSWi 2010. I loved Austin when I went for the first time earlier this year. Perhaps it was the grumpy dude...
Review: HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions
I’m so glad that this book exists. I’ve been hoping someone would write a book almost exactly like this for a long time. I have to be honest, when I first heard about it I sighed a little. Part of it was the word ‘standardistas’ in the title which made...
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Design is Kinky
Our Semi-Permanent Melbourne event is getting closer. We are very excited with the current speaker lineup, which includes our most recent additions, Pixar Animation Studio (pic above) and Timba Smits (check his site two posts down). It’s going to be a great event so check the site for more details....
The boys and girls at Three Drunk Monkey in Sydney, a boutique ad agency are dropping awards left right and centre. Here’s some of their work....
The always awesome Timba Smits has updated his site with new work....
The second issue of Process Journal has been released....
New York based multidisciplinary studio, Mogollon....
Offset 2010 have launched their site. Great lineup this year so if your in, or near, Dublin make sure to go check it out....
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Now DIN speaks Arabic - A fresh new release
Parachute® has created over the years some of the most sophisticated contemporary typefaces, supporting simultaneously hundreds of languages. Typefaces such as the Champion Script Pro, Centro Pro, Handbook Pro, Beau Sans Pro and of course the DIN Pro series, have been appreciated and used by designers worldwide. Now, for the...
Call for Entries - Communication Arts
Communication Arts the leading professional journal for visual communications, is launching its first-ever competition to celebrate the best of typography. If you have any project printed, published or aired for the first time within the two years prior to the deadline, you are eligible to submit your work in the...
Parachute® wins Silver at ED Awards 2010
In the last few years ED Awards has been established as a major European venue which honors the best in the European design scene. Every year it is hosted by a different city and this year it was the main event which took place for 4 days in Rotterdam. The...
Just released - The new DIN Monospace
PF Din Mono is the latest addition to the ever-growing set of DIN superfamilies by Parachute®. It was based on its proportional counterpart DIN Text Pro, but was completely redesigned to reflect its new identity. DIN Mono is a monospace typeface which is comprised of characters with fixed width. Traditionally,...
From time to time we publish a number of inspiring typographic images from our popular Flickr Group. Here is ten of them. By Like Minded Studio By patrycja By f!int By Engin Korkmaz By greg_papagrigoriou By dadoqueiroz By mil3n By durandrud By extraverage™ By 86era addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.parachutefonts.com%2F%3Fp%3D1871'; addthis_title = '10+Inspiring+Type+Images'; addthis_pub...
Hermann Zapf. A master’s techniques on film
Hermann Zapf is one of the most prominent type designers of the 20th century. He is best known for designing typefaces such as Palatino, Optima and Zapfino. Back in 1967, Hallmark Cards commissioned an educational film which documented Zapf’s techniques on type design and calligraphy. The purpose of this...
Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog
The iPad and SVG fonts in Mobile Safari
With all this hype around the iPad, people keep asking if the iPad supports webfonts. The good news is: Yes, it does. The bad news: the iPad runs Mobile Safari and in contrast to the standard version of Safari only SVG fonts are supported. Oh my gosh! Yet a another font...
Margaret Calvert, designer of the British road signs
Top Gear’s Jeremy May talks to Margaret Calvert, who, along with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout Great Britain. Tweet This Share on Facebook...
What began as a 10-year wedding anniversary to Rome concluded a year later as an artistic endeavor to reimagine the Coliseum with type. In March 2009, Cameron and his wife, Suzanne, spent several days in Rome to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. This was also a chance to observe in detail the Coliseum,...
TED Talks – a new idea for a road sign
Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares his idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of “Stop” and “Yield” — and asks drivers to be polite. (Source) Tweet This Share on Facebook...
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While FontFonts were already available thru TypeKit, FontShop International has now announced, that more than 30 of the most popular FontFont families are now available for download as so-called Web FontFonts, including FF DIN, FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Kievit. This enables a more seamless and effective transition from print design to the web. An organization whose identity...
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An Introduction to OpenType Substitution Features
By Martin Martin Wenzel & Christoph Koeberlin I have published this article as a page. You can read it here. Right now I’m unable to get the JavaScript working within a WordPress post. Once fixed, the page will redirect to a proper WordPress post. In the meantime, if you’d like...
By Kris Sowersby The impetus for Founders Grotesk originally came from Duncan Forbes of The International Office. We had often discussed the nature and usefulness of the classic grotesks, and the possibility of creating a new one. After trawling through my 1912 Miller & Richard specimen, he became enamoured with...
Why did I start a type foundry?
By Christian SchwartzWhy would anyone in his or her right mind start a type foundry now? Well, to begin with, it’s often said that it’s a good idea to start a business in a recession. However, the type marketplace has gotten very crowded—there are more foundries and distributors of type...
By Paul DijstelbergeMOVABLE TYPE: perhaps nowadays few will know the exact meaning of these two words, but until the middle of the twentieth century a letter was a small piece of lead, and to use it for printing you literally had to move it around, by hand. In the 20th...
We use way too many fonts Though I have the utmost respect for Massimo Vignelli, and am a fan of his work, his we use too many typefaces is just plain wrong. It’s by no means the first time Vignelli has voiced these views. If you have no idea what...
Dan Reynolds’ review of Bibliothèque Typographique’s first book, José Mendoza y AlmeidaDan Reynolds’ review of Bibliothèque Typographique’s first book, José Mendoza y Almeida Who is Jose Mendoza? José Mendoza y Almeida was perhaps the most internationally active 20th century French type designer. While he also produced work for local distributors,...
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Communication Arts typography competition
I just got word of a new typography competition from the Communication Arts staff. Communication Arts are organizing it themselves. Among other things, there is a type design category. Plus, the jury includes Stephen Coles. If you put Stephen’s name in a press release, I will almost always repost it...
Yesterday, I received a strange e-mail to my typeoff.de address from someone named Jason. The sender’s email address was so long and cryptic that I assumed it was just another piece of spam. However, the subject matter of the e-mail was somewhat topical. Here is what Jason had to say: You...
ESPN: World Cup = American Revolution II
ESPN World Cup – Glory from Mathieu Zarbatany on Vimeo. TypeOff.’s European readers may not be familiar with ESPN. The Entertainment Sports Programming Network is a cable station in the US that broadcasts a number of athletic events. ESPN is sort of a “presence” on the American media landscape, to say...
As I mentioned in my post-TYPO article, a new issue of the German-language TypoJournal has just been published. TypoJournal is the magazine of the website/wiki/forum Typografie.info. For almost a decade, Ralf Herrmann has successful maintained Typografie.info’s position as one of Germany’s most important graphic design websites. A year ago, he...
FRM – Das Magazin über die Metropolregion Frankfurt Rhein Main, 31. Mai 2010. Video von rheinmaintvvideo. In April 2010, Frankfurt hosted the annual Art Directors Club Germany meeting. Apparently, this was a big deal, a tremendous coup for the city. Previous meetings had been held in Berlin and Düsseldorf. Many German...
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And now for a very special message for the MATD students
Hours of work can yield beautiful type results, but what dark passenger may join a type designer during his or her year/s of hard work? Cancer? Probably. Reemergence of Asbergers? Definitely. Carpal tunnel? Most certainly. So while working for the next two months, please remember to take breaks, walk around and...
Due to the undergraduate exams, the MATD group has been forced into a mass exodus from the studio in which they sometimes work. The cozy Nightingale room, airy Tschichold room, and the library have become new homes for the typographic diaspora....
Yesterday was a day of grilled meat, mojitos, reluctant buses, and type talk; the MATD barbecue at Gerry’s house in beautiful Wokingham (if I misused a semi-colon there, too bad, I don’t want to hear about it). Anyway, the weather held out and in the end, everyone had a great...
T-spur represent! Late night keys in da house…
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Tom Grace is the smartest person to have graduated from Reading
Or so some say. Tom came and talked to us today about his methods in designing type—historical research, creativity, and how to rework and expand others’ type families. Here he is reviewing Gunnar’s typeface. Tom and Gunnar...
Dutch shoe stores are clearly inspired by professional hockey
While strolling the streets of Amsterdam, we came across the Spikes & More shoe store. The store’s logo contains quasi-display lettering that bears a striking resemblance to the logo of the Edmonton Oilers hockey club, in Alberta, Canada, which has been in use for nearly 40 years. Verdict = Originality...
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Our designer Brian Hennings stumbled across a great resource this morning: on the website of the Library of Congress, a collection of 926 posters from the Works Progress Administration. The LOC has done a nice job with this collection, providing for each poster not only the relevant archival information, but...
Learning to draw letters is hard enough, but learning to create typefaces is something else entirely. For those with an interest in both, H&FJ’s Sara Soskolne will be teaching “Turning Letters into Type,” a week-long workshop at New York’s School of Visual Arts, July 12–16. Registration is now open, and...
Typeface designers live with the permanent possibility of encountering their work at unexpected moments. Your old college now uses a font that you designed; in a movie, whose story takes place before you were born, your typefaces are used for prop newspapers and storefronts; the intimidating signs that scold you...
New from H&FJ: Whitney Greek & Cyrillic
Typeface: Whitney Multiscript H&FJ is pleased to introduce Whitney® Greek, Cyrillic, and Multiscript, a new internationalization of our Whitney family for our friends in Ελλάδα, Содружество Независимых Государств, and България. We’ve taken the fonts that already serve more than 140 languages, and extended them into the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets to satisfy...
I have a special affection for decorated letters, especially the ornamented designs of the nineteenth century. You know the kind: they're chubby Regency typefaces, slab serifs or high-contrast ‘Fat Faces,’ mostly, whose surfaces are emblazoned with intricate patterns or pastoral scenes. The collection of L. J. Pouchée contains some genuine...
Typefaces: Ziggurat, Archer, Gotham Designers who use our fonts have been sharing their work on our Facebook page, much to the delight of both H&FJ’s designers and our followers online. Some recent lovelies, clockwise from top left: Christopher Simmons designed this cheerful festival poster using Ziggurat, Leviathan, and a little Hoefler...
Typesites
Joey Pfeifer takes a look at a splendid single page site for a new icon set based on Max Miedinger's Helvetica....
Stuart Thursby of Thoughts on type takes a look at the redesign of one of Canada's primary news sources....
Tim Brown from Nice Web Type gives us the low down on the new Typographica design....
Vivien peeks under the hood at some interesting techniques of the Get and Give website....
A gorgeous take on one page design, Black Estate Vineyard plays with grid, image replacement and other techniques to create a stunning design....
Print inspiration taken to the web, Wilson Miner's new design is based on an excellent typographic poster....