Who needs a typeface? Romance in a Readable Font, a promotional video for Absent Grotesque created by the internet’s most beloved video artists, Fred & Sharon. Including Fred, Sharon, uncomfortable silences, and animation (don’t forget the animation!).
In 2007 Michael Cina found four individuals, Eric Carlson, Matt Desmond, Maddy Nye, Travis Stearns with sound abilities in imperfection for the YouWorkForThem type foundry. The design of “a model sans serif” typeface releases all that associate with rigid standards of life. Adding some new members, the fonts were tested in Berlin, to closely view the idiosyncrasies contributed through time by all. Inspiration was taken from any character set, but nature gave us this – a perfect realist sans-serif in OpenType format with a deep and inconsistent breath.
We are proud to be a sponsor of this year’s TypeCon 2008 in Buffalo, New York. If you don’t know what TypeCon is, it is the leading conference in America on all that is Type. On top of being one of the main sponsors, we are also curating a poster exhibit at TypeCon. We are looking for your best poster work that has excellent usage of Type on it. It can be the main focus, or minor. We will be showing the best submissions and the poster show will most likely travel, like our last one did. Don’t wait till last minute, send them over now! And please help spread the word, we want as many submissions as possible.
To clarify some issues: There is no specific size requirement for your posters (whatever you’re able to ship) and they may make use of any typefaces at your disposal provided you have the necessary license agreements.
A designer named Joe Bauldoff has posted images from a promotional publication from the 80′s. It’s an attempt to streamline and improve our much celebrated Helvetica. There are definately improvements here in the construction as well as white space. But I don’t think “good” is the main charm of Helvetica. Anyways… meet Haas Unica.
(Thanks to ever so awesome Design Observer for the link.)
Although there is obvious inspiration, not to be confused with Siggi Eggertsson. This Siggi (Icelandic nickname for Sigurður) recently graduated from the Iceland Academy of Arts. Check him.
Old time buddy and former co-worker, Mr Eric is giving away a free font on his site called Greyscale Basic. For a freebie, its pretty nice so grab it while the offer stands. If you like like, end up using on that hot, daddy-fat-pockets new client of yours, drop the guy a few bucks so he can enjoy a nice lunch or something. Lets don’t all be take take take, lets give back this year, make 2008 the year of the give back, yeah? No? Don’t like fonts? Ok, I don’t like you either.
