Category: Design & Type
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FontShop’s Font 004
I’ve just now caught up with most of my life after getting back from TypeCon (Except for writing about TypeCon. Sad, I know.), and I got a chance to actually sit and absorb FontShop‘s fourth issue of font magazine. Honestly, it’s my favorite thus far, though that’s not surprising since there are so many names…
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Aaaand PUSH!
Phew. After lots of doing (mostly by the web master, admittedly) my redesign of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia’s new website is up. Overall, I’m happy with it. We’ll be refining and revising it in the coming months (or years), but the improvement over the last one is significant, and that helps everyone. Plus,…
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Going to TypeCon 2005
For seven years now, The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has held an annual type conference in a different host city. This year, it’s in New York City and I’ll be there. My very generous friend Paul is even letting me crash at his place so I can begin the type-geekery one night early. If…
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Texas: The Lone State…Star?
I saw a Texas quarter recently (I’m holding right now, in fact, and you can see one to the left here.) and I’d like to thank the Texan government for providing such a durable lesson in typographic basics, in the form of a ’what not to do’. Texas, as we know, is ’The Lone Star…
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Worst Point of Sale Display Ever
The creative brief for this display must’ve read something like this: …should also target key market demographic of adorable demon children who’ve just lost two teeth biting into the skull of a stray dog. And want to be lemony fresh! It’s so mind-rending that I couldn’t allow it to be on my front page. Click…
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Dear Adobe, Pick Some Icons and Stick With Them
I use Adobe Creative Suite (CS) on my home machine, and Adobe CS 2 at work. CS is a suite of about 7 or so Adobe creative apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and GoLive, along with some other odds and ends. I made the transition from Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10 at home about…maybe 9…
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Requiem in Use
This past weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a gorgeous typeface I’d (very prematurely) considered a touch too mannered for the staid realm of book typography, is actually a pleasure to read. That face is Hoefler & Frere-Jones‘s gorgeous and classically striking Requiem.
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The “Typographers’ Bible”
Anyone interested in becoming a graphic designer and dealing with typography should buy a copy of Robert Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style when they become a student. They should read it once through after or in the midst of a basic typography course, and leave it by their desk for easy reference. Then, after a…
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Typographica’s Favorite Fonts of 2004
A while back, I was contacted by Stephen Coles, one of the editors of the online journal of typography Typographica, about putting some thoughts down about my favorite release or a notable release of 2004. Of course, I eagerly accepted and chose Avenir Next. Today, Typographica‘s Our Favorite Fonts of 2004 was posted. It’s a…
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The DHL Occupying Force
Have you seen as many DHL trucks as I have recently? I think it’s related to their new ad campaign. Alisa and I saw it a few weeks ago and the day after I started seeing their trucks all over the place. Now that’s a well-coordinated campaign. But it’s not just the coordination that’s making…
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