A little late but still worth posting. Typographica.org has released a list of their most favorite fonts of 2006.
Category: Typography
Typisc
Andreas Pihlström (Suprb) has just launched Typisc Type Foundry. Some awesome typefaces in this catalogue.
DiRT Interface
Check out this sweet looking interface for the XBOX 360 game DiRT. I absolutely love it and might buy the game just for this interface.
Tribute to Herbert Lubalin
I apologized for the lack of posts recently. I’ve been swamped at work but I will make it up to you guys with todays entry.
Herbert Lubalin is the creator of one of my most favorite fonts, Avant Garde, and one of the most influential designers of our time. Sure Avant Garde is overused and a lot of people simply hate it, even Lubalin himself, but I personally think it’s a beautiful font. Head over to Typogabor.com/ to check out their sweet gallery of some of his best work.
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.
