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Hiruko Typeface
September 10th, 2008Alex of Thinkdust informed me about an elegant new typeface family that he designed called Hiruko. It comes in a variety of styles including Regular, Alternative, Light, Oblique, and soon Heavy, Medium, and Outline. You can purchase the fonts at the site.
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Ringling College Admissions Catalog
September 9th, 2008This is probably the most beautiful college admissions catalogue I’ve ever seen. Absolutely gorgeous. It was designed by Lucas Human, Phil Clark, and Jenn Levreault during their senior year. The three traveled to Bologna, Italy to oversee the press check at Zincographica. You can request a free copy at www.ringling.edu.
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Wim Crouwel 80 | 20 | 100
September 8th, 2008Another great exhibit that I won’t be able to see. I thought NYC was the art capital of the world? Great shows like this are never here.
Anyway, Vivid Gallery in Rotterdam will be hosting an exhibition on Wim Crouwel from October 11 — November 23. If you’re in the Netherlands you won’t want to miss it.
An exhibition with 100 designs by Wim Crouwel celebrating his 80th birthday
and also celebrating 20 years Nijhof & Lee
To celebrate the 80th birthday of Wim Crouwel and 20 years Nijhof & Lee VIVID organises the exhibition 80 | 20 | 100
100 works by Crouwel will be on display. For this VIVID gallery made a selection out of the superb Crouwel collection of Frank Nijhof and Warren Lee.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue designed by David Quay.
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A Redesign is a Comin’
September 4th, 2008UPDATE
I just flipped the switch and moved everything over so it should all be done. Let me know if you find anything that looks weird, especially those of you on a PC. Enjoy.
Yup… again. I’m starting to grow out of this current design. I need something more flexible with more real estate for the posts and for side widgets. Better typography and usability as well.
You’ll notice that I’ve also begun to prepare the most recent posts to work with the new design. I’m setting some visual standards. A slight change in how I write out the headlines. Previously I use to capitalize all the words in a title including “a”, “the”, “of”, “is”, “on” and so on. Now I’m using a form of Title Casing where the first and last words in the title are capitalized as well as any word four or more letters. I’m also setting an image height of 700px for consistency. You’ll see what I mean when I launch the new design.
It’s pretty much done, I’m just making some final tweaks and I’ll probably flip the switch tomorrow evening. I hope you guys dig it.
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Pentagram Redesigns the Khaleej Times
September 4th, 2008Luke Hayman and Paula Scher of the New York Pentagram office have redesigned the Persian Gulf’s leading English language newspaper, the Khaleej Times. The new design makes use of the space saving typeface, Freight by Joshua Darden, and a wider 6 column grid.
I’d love to one day redesign a newspaper. Text and grid heavy project is paradise.
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Redrawing the MoMA Logo
September 3rd, 2008For me, one of the most exciting and rewarding aspects of design is the details. That’s where I spend most of my time and even though the untrained eye probably won’t notice them, the details still make the design better.
So I was excited when I came across this scan of a 2003 NY Times article on the redrawing of the MoMA logo. The legendary Matthew Carter was hired to do the refresh in which the changes were minimal but the results were significant.
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A Brief History of Emil Ruder
September 2nd, 2008Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, Industrial Design, Typography
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A short but excellent write up over at Thinking for a Living about Emil Ruder, one of the pioneers of the International Typographic Style.
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Cinematypography
September 2nd, 2008Here’s a fun little project titled Cinematypography by talented UK student (and author of September Industry) David Corti. Cinematypography is a collection of 70 film titles renamed to coincide with a typeface. David reached out to the creative community for the new film titles. Participants include Build, KentLyons, Neue, SampsonMay, This Studio, Un.titled and yours truly.
Unfortunately the poster is already sold out since only 50 were printed.
