Back in April I posted about a sweet poster created by Rick Banks. He finally has the entire collection up for sale over a Blanka.
Category: Merch
Helvetica DVD Pre-order
The 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, 16×9 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.
IDEA NO. 323 : Wim Crouwel
Issue 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
Volcomics Poster
Volcom 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.
50 Years of Helvetica
Great exhibit featuring talented designers. There is a nice online gallery on the Candy site and you can purchase all the pieces from Blanka. My favorite is this one above by Build.
2007 sees the fiftieth anniversary of helvetica. Blanka and Candy have invited 50 leading designers and graphic artists to produce 50 images. Each artist has produced a 50cm x 50 cm print in an edition of 50, available for £50 each. Each print is produced using Epson archival giclee inkjet technology. The exhibition launches in london at the Design Museum July 19 – Sept 2 and was produced in association with Veer and with the assistance of Epson, GFSmith, Image Now, Generation Press and Build.
Each artist was allocated a random year [1957 – 2006] from Helvetica’s lifetime. From this they were asked to create an image based on an event of creative or cultural significance which occured during their allocated year. The artist were asked to consider the relevance of Helvetica when creating their final piece, there were no other rules applied other than if they used a typeface it must be Helvetica.
Helvetica Nation
A commemorative wordmark on the occassion of Helvetica’s 50 Year Anniversary. Translated for 9 different countries with a strong design culture. Typeface aside, the logo serendipitously includes the number 50 and a subliminal Swiss cross.
$35 USD/Shirt
I want one!