Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.
With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.
The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.
Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.
Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.
With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.
The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.
Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.
What happens when you explore type without the typographer’s eye in mind? What happens when you take type out of the centuries old, black and white, static world of type specimens?
CDKVW is a YouWorkForThem short that takes five various fonts into the depths of the unknown and against various natural elements. Composed and filmed with similar methods from our Type in Water/Ice projects, the final CDKVW clips were taken back into the computer and shredded even more. The final result borders on the somewhat absurd, leaving us with an intrigue of what is to come on the next exploration.
This has been making the type world rounds lately, U&lc has started posted some free PDF downloads of old back issues. They are not the best scans (did they scan these during a Christmas office party?) but they are free, available in high resolution, and did we mention free? Grab em while they are hot, and enjoy the type insanity.
We are extremely excited to announce the addition of URW++ to our font library. URW++ has been at the forefront of digital typography since the early 1970‘s. From design classics like Paul Renner’s Futura to Oswald Bruce Cooper’s Cooper, they have designed, published and digitized over 600 astonishing font families. We’re starting today by offering over 60 of those, and over the next few months we will be adding around 50 families a month. And here’s the best part: not only have URW++ brought us all these classics, but they are completely affordable.
We are not sure why we never thought of doing this, but who cares now because our friend Network Osaka has done it. N.Osaka is a fellow admirer of swiss design (who isn’t though, really) and created these wallpapers for everyone to download. The wallpapers contain some of the most popular designs by the likes of Müller-Brockmann, Crowell, Armin Hoffmann and a few other design legends all formatted for modern screen resolutions. So get over there and download those goodies!
We have had many new designer/foundry additions to our site in the past month, one of the biggest being the addition of the font foundry Insigne. Insigne will be bringing hundreds of new fonts to our font collection, with already over 200 in this month alone. We also welcome Theodore Jordan and Greg Perkins to our stock audio designers, look for new audio collections composed by these two in the coming weeks. And last but not least, we also added a new designer listing page to help you find a particular designer or foundry of interest.
After the interesting discoveries we made while creating Typography in Water, we figured it was best to continue exploring this nature versus type theme. This time around we explored freezing type to see what sort of visual oddities might arise. While the results were similar to the previous placements in water, ice created a much colder, cleaner and minimal effect than water. Jump on over to the YouWorkForThem Behance to see this latest project.
Cumulus and Foam has been making the press rounds lately with mentions in Print Magazine, It’s Nice That, Selectism, and linkage on NOTCOT, Unstrung, and involved in a so-called debate on QBN of what is considered beautiful. As well, our Behance project for C&F was featured on their front page this past week and jumped to over 200 thumbs up! It’s been a great start for this strange little creature and we look forward to what else will arise from its birth.
Don’t forget, if you use C&F and want to share the results, stop on by it’s Facebook page and share.
When Stefan Kjartansson first sent us Cumulus and Foam, we asked him what sort of conceptual keywords would he attach to his beautiful monster. He gave us terms like Abortion, Brothels, Rabies, Fake Orgasms, Bacteria, Victorian Wigs & Cappuccino Froth as things that inspired the design. Today we took those original keywords as our inspiration and designed special font showings just for our Behance page. (Cumulus and Foam on Behance)
Cumulus & Foam, the most beautifully grotesque font of our time. After many years of fine tuning and development, Stefan Kjartansson’s (designer of Black Slabbath) magnificent monster is now available for you to purchase. In honor of this very special occasion, all orders for the complete family will receive a copy of the book above for FREE! No additional shipping fees, it’s completely free! Read more…
Studio Newwork have let us know that issue 5 is now available! You can pick it up online at Hugo & Marie or visit their site to see who’s carrying it in your neighborhood. Happy Friday!
