The ligature: music to your eyes or an outdated typographic nuisance?
Posted by: Dana Deschene on Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Categories: Design, Fun, Industrial Brand, Learning, Pop Culture, Technology, Typography, Uncategorized, We love | 2 Comments »
Jim Rimmer died last week and I really wasn’t sure I wanted to post anything online after writing a tribute post for my recently deceased friend Leo Obstbaum. Losing people takes the wind right out of your sails. Then I found the foll [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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It’s like Communication Design class all over again. Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign. The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Music, Typography | No Comments »
Dutch design firm SPRANQ has developed a new typeface that incorporates their concern for the environment. Ecofont is a typeface similar in look to Vera Sans, but resembles Swiss cheese in its makeup. The aerated font uses 20% less ink to p [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Categories: Design, Pop Culture, Sustainability, Typography | No Comments »
Buenos Aires isn’t the first place I think of when I consider type foundries, but Studipos has some brilliant fonts. Check em out.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008
Categories: Design, Typography, Websites | 2 Comments »
This comes from vaults of something I thought I shared a few weeks ago, but it must have slipped through the cracks. Check out this piece on ABC news taking a look at the fonts used by the “remaining” US Presidential Candidates [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
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I stumbled on a great piece on ABC news that analyzed the US potential nominees for President (back when there were 3…. ohh wait… Hillary still things that she’s in this thing!) according to the typeface they chose for the [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, June 5th, 2008
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Adobe and the AIGA have teamed up to package 500 commonly used fonts aimed at design students making the transition to professional life. Creating a font library can be daunting and when you’re just starting in a career assembling the [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Categories: Education, Typography | No Comments »
With some time to spare and a little bit of curiosity I found “New Vintage Type” a book that I am now in need of getting my paws on. So how did I find this gem of a book?
Posted by: Claire Alexander on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Design, Fun, Inspiration, Typography, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Keming. I give this about a week before it’s used industry wide. And it’s available as a t-shirt.
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Categories: Pop Culture, Typography | 2 Comments »
This blog has sure gone stale, hasn’t it? I wonder if we have any readers left? We sort of suck, you’re right. Anyway, I’m still blogging, which is ironic as I used to be the lame infrequent blogger at IBC. Here’s a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Categories: Design, Film, Fun, Pop Culture, Typography | 1 Comment »
Uh-oh, seems I’m a foodie AND a fontie. The Globe & Mail’s Ivor Tossell says that’s an annoying combo in his recent Globe & Mail rant For The Love of Typography. And yes Ivor, it’s true, Comic Sans sucks like [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 15th, 2007
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Serifs, sans serifs, baselines, kerning, leading, rhythm, contrast, readability, hierarchy. These are all concepts that trained graphic designers who specialize in print are well aware of, but seldom applied to the web. Why is that? For a s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
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You’ve seen the film Helvetica. Now you want to own it for yourself and see all the other stuff said by those designers that didn’t make the cut. Now you can pre-order your own copy of Helvetica on DVD.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Categories: Film, Typography | No Comments »
Rumor has it that there will be announcement by GDC of a second screening of Gary Hustwit’s documentary Helvetica in Vancouver on August 7th, but for those who can’t make it you can always watch this celebration of Cooper Black [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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Having been involved in the Digital Design and Digital Design Programs at VFS for a number of years now, it’s a source of pride when our design students really “get it”. Check out this impressive motion graphics project do [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 4th, 2007
Categories: Design, Education, Film, Typography, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
The title of this posting sounds like some twisted thing Ben would say. Let me explain, what I mean is, it is getting really easy for a web developer to sprinkle a little magic on their websites with some help from the open source AJAX libr [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Categories: Typography | 1 Comment »
If you’ve never had the rare privilege to hear Canadian poet, typographer and author Robert Bringhurst speak in person, here’s your chance. He’s a captivating speaker – sort of like Dr. Hunter S. Thomson mixed with a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 17th, 2007
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London College of Printing’s David Dabner claims “Computers make design students sloppy.” Probably true in many ways. Not many of us get the privilege of learning how to set movable type for letterpress anymore. Here’ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 15th, 2007
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I always enjoy seeing what Google comes up with when specializing their logo for holidays and events. They must have been in a hurry to get their Valentine’s Day logo up (what with taking over the world and all) because their designer [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Categories: Pop Culture, Typography, Websites | 1 Comment »
Stumbled on The Playground this morning which is an experimental site presented by Rick Valicenti. (of 3ST among others. Anyways the premise of this site is to “to create an alphabet of 26 characters illuminated not to start a sentenc [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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Astronauts, geographers, and typographers alike can all find joy in the impressive world of Geogreetings. Geogreetings are in my definition, “The combining of a sattellite’s view of landmarks, algorithmic(seemingly, but not real [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, November 17th, 2006
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This year’s Design Thinkers conference kick off party featured the Canadian debut of the FIFFteen Exhibit at Resistor Gallery in Toronto’s funky College Street district. Celebrating 15 years of the FontFont type library co-found [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 6th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Typography | 1 Comment »
