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Almost a year in the making, Enotmik is now available as a two weight display font. Designed on a grid, Enotmik is made up of 90º and 45º angles and pays homage to legendary typefaces Helvetica and Avant Garde. Download the Enotmik specimen (PDF) to view the full glyph set.
I want like to thank everyone that has given me input on the design and helped me make it a better typeface.
Weights: Light, Bold.
Format: OpenType PS (.otf)
$20.00
FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif, following the discovery of drawings of the typeface by Max Miedinger. The sketches which were discovered by Miedinger’s granddaughter have been redrawn to create the digital version shown above.
The font has been released today, April 1st.
Dropclock is an beautiful clock screensaver that features numbers set in Helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion. I bet you this bad boy is sucks up a lot of cpu and memory. It might just be worth it though.
Trip Print Press is a printer in Canada that prints with a letterpress. They do excellent work but it seems like they don’t have Helvetica in their type collection which is very unfortunate. Check out their Flickr page for more behind the scene photos.
The Rochester Institute of Technology has an excellent collection of posters and record covers designed by Jacqueline S. Casey, who worked as a graphic designer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1990. Unfortunately Jacqueline Casey died in 1992 at the age of 65 but she has left and beautiful collection of designs that we can all admire and enjoy.
The work in this collection is absolutely brilliant. I love her simplicity and her play with typography.
A book was also created in 1992 to coincide with this collection called Posters: Jacqueline S. Casey, Thirty Years of Design at MIT. The book is wonderful and features full descriptions and color reproductions of her work. It’s very rare and almost impossible to find, trust me I’m still looking. If you’re lucky to find one be prepared to dropped $250 for it.
A Blu-ray version of the Helvetivca documentary has been announced today. This limited-edition versions comes in a 12″ gatefold record cover created by amazingly talented Experimental Jetset. It contains the Blu-ray disc on one side and a fold-out poster in the other, all housed in a custom black cloth record bag. 1,500 copies have been produced and each copy is signed by director Gary Hustwit.
This thing is freakin’ gorgeous! I want one so bad but the price is a little steep, $125. You can pre-order it now and it will ship on May 6th. There’s also a standard Blu-ray version that’s only $26.
Now I have to explain to my wife why I’m spending $125 on a DVD.