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Shameless

johno — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:23:39 +0000

Neil Summerour’s latest release sat in a ‘drawer’ for two years gathering dust. Fortunately for us, he discovered it, dusted it off, and released it as a scratchy, dynamic, and elegant script font. Shameless is available in two flavors, Standard & Deluxe, with the latter comprising more characters. Shameless is published by the Positype type foundry, and is available through MyFonts.

FF Ernestine

johno — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:51:01 +0000

FF Ernestine is Nina Stössinger’s debut release. Wide & open letterforms sporting slab serifs, & a generous x-height ensuring its legibility even at the very smallest sizes. Topped with stylistic & contextual alternates, arrows, & two sizes of smallcaps — this is quite the recipe for a charming, robust, & versatile text face.

Available in four weights — Light, Regular, Demibold, & Bold — with complimentary italics, & even an Armenian counterpart, drawn by Hrant Papazian. For further information, visit the FF Ernestine mini-site, or FontFont.

Codex

johno — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:47:27 +0000

Codex now shipping

Some photos of Codex magazine.

More news coming soon! Buy yours here.

Type Directors Club Annual Competition

johno — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:09:54 +0000

Calls for Entries

New York – Diego Vainesman, President of the Type Directors Club, has announced that the fifty-seventh annual Type Directors Club competition, TDC57; the fourteenth annual TDC Typeface Design Competition, TDC2 2011, and TDC Intro 011, dedicated to movie title design, Calls for Entries, will not be mailed this year. Entry forms and instructions on the TDC web site.

The early bird deadline for all the competitions is Friday, December 17, 2010. In the design competition, there are several changes to the categories this year, one of which is Best in Show.

TDC57 is chaired by Roberto de Vicq (deVicqdesign). The jury includes: Art Chantry; Arem Duplessis (The New York Times); Fons Hickmann (Fons Hickmann m23, Berlin); Mario Hugo; Jason Kernevich (The Heads of State); Angela Voulangas, and Bruce Willen (Post Typography).

TDC2 2011 is chaired by James Montalbano (Terminal Design). His jury includes: Jos Buivenga (exljbris Font Foundry, The Netherlands); Jessica Hische, Steve Matteson (Ascender Corp.), and Charles Nix (Scott & Nix).
TDC Intro 011 is chaired by Jakob Trollbäck (Trollbäck & Company). The jury includes: Karin Fong (Imaginary Forces); Randy Balsmeyer (Big Film); Timmy Fisher (MK12), and Mark Kudsi (Motion Theory).

The winners works will appear in the Type Directors Club annual, Typography 32, designed by Matteo Bologna, Mucca Design, and published by Collins Design, an imprint of HarperCollins International. The annual will be available in bookstores.

The winning entries will also be exhibited in seven traveling shows beginning in the summer of 2011 in a New York City as well as in cities worldwide.

The Type Directors Club is a non profit professional organization, celebrating its sixty-fifth anniversary. TDC is dedicated to educating its international membership and graphic arts community about type, type design and its myriad of uses in the field of communications.

Sponsored by H&FJ.

Type Directors Club Annual Competition

Helvetica vs. Arial app

johno — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:52:59 +0000

Harder than it sounds

Surprisingly fun for such a simple app.

Free from the app store.

Before playing, you might want to read ILT’s Arial vs. Helvetica.

Sponsored by H&FJ.

Helvetica vs. Arial app

Jean-Luc (Godard)

johno — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:01:26 +0000

C’est gratuit!

Today is Jean-Luc Godard’s birthday. To Celebrate, Atelier Carvalho Bernau Design has just released JeanLuc, a typeface inspired by the titles for films like “Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle.” (1967).

The JeanLuc typeface is free, so download it now. Téléchargez et profitez-en!

Capucine

johno — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:15:33 +0000

New Fonts

The delightful new Capucine by Alice Savoie. Available through Process Type Foundry.

Reverting to Type

johno — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:14:01 +0000

Letterpress in London

Reverting to Type from Lima Charlie on Vimeo.

Curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type will showcase the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world.

10th–24th Dec 2010 and 4th–22nd Jan 2011
Standpoint Gallery, London.

For more information see New North Press.

Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop

johno — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:01:24 +0000

Creative Review TV

Sponsored by H&FJ.

Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop

HTML5 Books?

johno — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:36:04 +0000

20 things I Learned

Is the future of e-books in the browser? This work for Google by Fi is pretty impressive.