NowNow is an Australian born collective hosting an onslaught of exhibitions, features, mixes, interviews, and get this… they even put out their own magazine! /explosion noise.
I have been getting into graphic design from Iran again and there is a name that I always love seeeing, Ghobad Shiva. His work is varies from illustration to modernist with a strong sense of typography.
He has a site that shows all of his works, here. Ghobad also has a new book out on his works that shows almost his complete body of work. For sure worth a visit and a bookmark.
We are a little late on this, but the Fleuron posted a list of their Top 10 Type Foundries You Should Know About. We are happy to be included amongst them.
What are some of your favorite type foundries (other than us, of course)?
Cinco de Mayo is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico. The holiday commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.
I thought I would put together a list of essential latin-themed lps that can get you in the mood to celebrate (I know a lot of them are from Puerto Rico but whatever):
Joe Bataan – Riot
Eddie Palmieri - Vamonos Pal Monte
Joe Cuba - Bang, Bang, Push, Push, Push
Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce
Pete Rodriguez - I Like It Like That
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers – Yaina
Charlie Palmieri - Latin Bugalu
Fania All Stars - Live in Puerto Rico
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Ray Barretto - Barretto Power
Mike Davis works just down the hall from us so there’s a pretty good dialogue back and forth between our office and Burlesque where he works. He’s also a huge nerd for classic graphic design and runs a blog , So Much Pileup, devoted to digging up the greatest of graphic ephemera from the high modern to post modern years (Definitely worth following). And, we should also probably mention that he’s a talented club DJ (Mike2600).
Name: Mike Davis
Company: Burlesque of North America
Website: http://burlesquedesign.com
Short explanation of what you do or who you are, one or two sentences.
Burlesque is a group of graphic designers, illustrators and screenprinters. Headquartered in Minneapolis, we create graphic art for mainly music-based clients, host art exhibitsin our First Amendment art gallery, and put out music releases on our BRLSQOTHEQUE record label
Color: woodgrain
Music: Black Sabbath, Public Enemy, The Kinks, Wild Style soundtrack, MSTRKRFT
Book: Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer, Typographer
Designer: Herb.
Animal: Cobra Kitten
Website: friendster.com
Place: Space
Shape: Obelisk (no homo)
Artist: Chuck Close
Typeface: Helvetica Bold
Movie: Raging Bull, Empire Strikes Back, Goonies, When We Were Kings
Work: What?
Word: What!
Season: Autumn, even though I live in a city where the space between Summer and Winter lasts 30 seconds
Magazine: Plumpers
Guilty Pleasure: MC battles, 21st century Pro Wrestling
Distraction: The internets
Love: Hate
Hate: Love
What are you working on right now?
Cuckoo clock art print, two gig posters for Flight of the Conchords, CD artwork for anticon
What career would you switch to if you had to stop your current profession?
Fulltime DJ / music maker.
Why do you __________?
Because you always ______________
A.M. Cassandre produced the typeface Bifur for Peignot in 1929. Bifur broke from rigid typographic forms by combining Art Deco principles of obsessive geometry with the line and stroke of letter forms. Skute picks up Cassandre’s spirit and carries it onward in YWFT hand set fashion. And we are happy to give it out to you. Yep, that’s right, we’re giving Skute to you for your own personal use! Should you need to use Skute for a commercial project or want more letters, buy the enhanced Pro version, Skute Pro.
Happy Friday, Have fun with it!
Found (one F) these. Top left “Perspective” designed by AM Cassandre, 1968.
Yale is on point, lots of great grad work coming out of there (Hi Vance!) Neil Donnelly’s 100 Warm Jets project for instance, is an interesting exercise in process, organization, and presentation.
Artist Zanis Waldheims was born in Latvia in 1909. A whopping hundred years later I discover his amazing body of geometric work… thanks to Kevin Byrd via It’s Nice That.
About a month ago we released a new font, Matter. We felt it would be beneficial to go an extra mile and create a small PDF zine to further show the typographic value of Matter.
Download the Matter Zine (Right-Click, Save As)
Swedish graphic designer Joakim Jansson is this week’s featured designer. His work encompasses many areas related to design including art direction, graphic design, typography, illustration, branding and web. He also contributes to the Style Press blog and DJs as Soda Popinski in his spare time. Here’s a little more about him and his work…
From the big wigs over at Canada Type we now have their second bundled collection. This set includes 14 different type families and a total 31 different font weights and variations. So go ahead, revive and freshen up your font collection with this super discounted set today! This package saves you over $125! In this sour economy, this might cost a grip up front, but you save so much more in the long run and grand scheme of things. Perfect for any agency or small design shop’s type collection.
Personally, I really like Canada Type and what they are doing. These guys are typeface making machines, just look at how many of their fonts we handle. I really like this work ethic, which is, well WORK!
