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Non-Format Interview
August 22nd, 2007Nice little interview with the talented dudes at Non-Format.
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FFFFound
August 22nd, 2007Not sure who created this or what it’s all about but I found this great piece while surfing ffffound.com. If anyone has any info on this please let me know.
[Update]
Stephen Coles has pointed out that this is a typeface by Anderson Maschio called Chumbitos.
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Creep Festival
August 18th, 2007Back in April I posted about a sweet poster created by Rick Banks. He finally has the entire collection up for sale over a Blanka.
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Highway Signs
August 14th, 2007A great slideshow by The New York Times showing how the typeface used on highway signs was improved to create better legibility. What’s really interesting is how they used a proportion-based grid system to create an overall layout system to be used across all signs.
Submitted by Pablo
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Helvetica DVD Pre-order
August 14th, 2007The Helvetica DVD is now available for pre-order with a release date of November 6. It will be available in a retail version and a deluxe limited edition that is only available online.
Helvetica DVD pre-order
(Retail version)
The DVD includes the full 80-minute feature film, plus over 90 minutes of additional interviews with Massimo Vignelli, Matthew Carter, Erik Spiekermann, Hermann Zapf, and more. NTSC, 16x9 anamorphic widescreen presentation, full-color booklet, English and German language subtitles. Release date: November 6. Pre-order now, you’ll save $5 and receive early shipping (a week before street date) and two love/hate Helvetica film buttons.
Helvetica DVD pre-order
(Deluxe limited edition)
A limited-edition package in a custom box that includes the retail DVD, three letterpressed mini-posters, a color C-print of a still from the film (one of ten different stills) signed by director Gary Hustwit, two love/hate Helvetica buttons, and a letter of actual Helvetica metal type! We might even throw more cool stuff in there too. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Release date November 6, pre-order now and receive early shipping (a week before release date). This limited box will not be available in stores.
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IDEA NO. 323 : Wim Crouwel
August 10th, 2007Issue number 323 of IDEA magazine is dedicated to the great Wim Courwel with 190 pages featuring his works. New Alphabet is also included.
Special Feature: Wim Crouewel’s adventures into the experimental worlds
Wim Crouwel (born 1928) is of the most influential dutch designers in the 20th century. His typographic designs, envisioned through his unique combination of functionalism and aesthetics, have been influential on designers of younger generations.
This issue of Idea specially devoted its 190 pages to Wim Crouwel’s representative design works, including posters, book designs, logotypes, stamps, typefaces and others. His legendary New Alphabet is also introduced with full details. Two historical essay’s by Crouwel and comments from imporatant design figures are also featured.
[CONTENTS]
Introduction [Japanese Only]
Works of Wim Crouwel:
Poster, Book design, Stamp, Logotype, Typeface, New Alphabet
The WC Alphabets
Text by Sergio Polano, with William Bottin
Type Design for the Computer Age [1970]
Typography: A Technique of Making a Text ¡ÆLegible¡Ç [1977]
Text by Wim Crouwel
Comments on Wim Crouwel
Karel Martens, Hamish Muir, Helmut Schmid, Lars Muller, Wolfgang Weingart, Shigeru Watano, Ian Anderson, Experimental Jetset, David Quay, Tony Brook, Bibliotheque, Bryan Edmondson, Michael C. Place
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Typography Class
August 10th, 2007Can’t remember how I found this but check out this blog by Todd Roeth, Assistant Professor at Marietta College. Seems like Todd teaches a typography class called GRPH: 210 Typography and he posts the lessons on his blog. Some of the stuff is pretty basic but it’s still a good resource none the less.
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Apple Keyboard
August 8th, 2007Everyone is focused on the new iMac’s, which are wonderful, but I’m drooling over the new keyboards that Apple has released. The design is so simple but at the same time beautiful and I love the materials used. One thing I don’t like is that the wireless one is a compacted version. I wish they made it a full keyboard.
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To Do
August 7th, 2007Tina over at SwissMiss found this post-it installation by Illegal Art on her way to work in Dumbo. Pretty sweet.
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Liten Ljus Lager
August 3rd, 2007Found this at this blog while surfing the interweb. Great packaging design for this Swedish beer. Simple and graphic, I love it. I wish more brands would do stuff as good as this instead of slapping some ugly ass design onto their products. As least Coke is getting it.
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Volcomics Poster
August 3rd, 2007Volcom just released this amazing poster by Jim Phillips and Matt French. I can look at this thing for ours. The detail and the colors are just superb. They only made 200 of these so pick one up before they’re gone. I’m definitely adding this to my collection.
Now is your chance to own a piece of history. We have a few dozen limited edition posters leftover from the first Volcomics shows, that can now be yours for the low price of $100. They are 38 x 45 inches, 12-color screen printed black-light posters, all inked, color-seperated, press checked and signed by Jim Phillips and Matt French. There were only 200 posters made for our Volcomics Issue #1.
