Soulellis Studio

Posted on March 5, 2008March 5, 2008 Posted in Design, TypographyTagged brockmann, graphic design, helvetica, Typography, vignelli1 Comment

Soulellis Studio is a design firm based in New York City that does an exceptional job with Helvetica. Their work is reminiscent of the masterpieces created by such legends as Brockmann and Vignelli.

Via September Industry

Social Gothic

Posted on March 4, 2008March 4, 2008 Posted in TypographyTagged canada type, fonts, futura, helvetica, type, typeface, Typography, univers2 Comments

I only use handful of typefaces, mainly classics like Helvetica, Univers, Akzidenz Grotesk, Avant Garde and Futura, and I’m not a firm believer of using multiple typefaces in a design. So it’s rare when I find a modern typeface that gets my design juices flowing, and today I’ve found two.

Social Gothic is a new typeface by Canada Type that has the characteristics of some of these classic typefaces but with a more modern feel to it. I like it. Social Gothic is a unicase font that contains an expanded character set as well as a few alternates. You can purchase a copy at You Work For Them.

Grids In The Real World

Posted on March 3, 2008March 4, 2008 Posted in Design, Grid Systems, TypographyTagged baselines, CSS, graphic design, Grid Systems, grids, helvetica, text, type, Typography22 Comments

It’s one thing to write about how useful and important grids are for a design, it’s another thing to utilize them in a real world project. I recently designed this site for my wife’s event company using a grid system that I’ve developed that also incorporates a baseline grid. It’s very similar to the grid in my Designing Grid Systems For Flash article, the only difference being the vertical height. The grid is 946 pixels wide to accommodate 1024×768 screen resolutions with baselines that are 10 pixels apart. Since this isn’t a Flash site, and vertical scrolling is acceptable, the height is taller for the pages with more content. Continue reading “Grids In The Real World” →

HLVTC

Posted on March 3, 2008March 3, 2008 Posted in Design, TypographyTagged glyph, graphic design, helvetica, italian, project, Typography1 Comment

Fellow Italian Urciuoli Sabato has done some nice work, especially for his Glyph project.

Euro 08 Flyers

Posted on March 1, 2008March 2, 2008 Posted in Design, TypographyTagged flyers, graphic design, helvetica, soccer, Typography3 Comments

A beautiful set of flyers from David Corti of September Industry.

Grids Are Good For The Soul Wallpapers

Posted on February 26, 2008February 26, 2008 Posted in Design, Grid Systems, Typography, WallpapersTagged graphic design, grids, helvetica, lubalin graph, Wallpapers3 Comments

For all those that missed out on the Grids Are Good For The Soul posters, here are some wallpapers to satisfy your needs. Using the same Brockmann quote, I created two wallpapers, one set in Helvetica and the other set in Lubalin Graph. The grid is also visible which you can’t see in the thumbnails.

Head over to the Wallpapers page to download them.