Jan 8, 2010 by ståle
Our friend (and fellow type club member) Stian W. Bugten and his buddy Simon P. Egli has worked on a font the for a while now. We blogged about the project some time ago, but things have happened since then.
Copy+Pasted from Simons site:
“Sea Ark Sheep a contextual typeface.
This font is getting its look only by typing. See a preview on vimeo.
Started as a project at Central Saint Martins, finally this font is getting released early 2010 by the publisher Die Gestalten. For a preview a small serie of riso prints has been published. (100 sets of 7 A3)”
Lucky me. I got my hands on one of those preview sets. I took some pictures of the sweetness on my kitchen floor.
Well. Enough talk. Here´s the pics:
On Stians Flickr there is some photos from the preview printing in Zurich. Check it out.
Looking forward to seeing the font on sale at Die Gestalten.
Jan 7, 2010 by ståle
I was out strolling on the internet, when I suddenly came across this sweet sweet site; Friends of Type. I tell you, no I urge you to bookmark it ASAP. Friends of Type was made like this. I love the simplicity. DIY. Here´s a taste:
©Friends of Type
Jan 2, 2010 by ståle
A new year. A new blog post. A bunch of fun & found stuff. Ståles famous “Stumbled upon on a Saturday”.
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Dec 28, 2009 by ståle
I got a sweet mail the other day. From Jonathan Calugi of Happy Lovers Town. With a free typeface download. What a great christmas gift! here is what Jonathan said: “YEP just not in time but i love to say happy holiday to everyone… from now to 1 january 2010 you can download this gift for you.. A new typeface ;)” And who am I to not share it with our visitors?? If you want it, you got it. Here. Thanks Jonathan! We love your work. Keep on truckin´.
Remember to download the typeface before 2010…
Nov 3, 2009 by ståle
Melkeveien made a really bautiful typeface for SDG and their client Statoil. Yes, it´s for the same profile as the much talked about redesigned logo… (Statoil and SDG is presenting the new profile at faglig frokost 9. desember at DogA (Oslo) ) I like the typeface. Good work Melkeveien!
Nov 3, 2009 by ståle
Got a newsletter from YouWorkForThem yesterday, with loads of new font releases. Many nice fonts indeed. But one caught my eye: the font Blobz, Designed by Jeff Proctor. Why? I don´t know. Perhaps the colors. But I am a sucker for hand made organic and twirling fonts. Guess thats the old graffiti artist in me. I don´t think this one was the coolest/best font in the newsletter, but it was the one I thought was worth mentioning.
Here another pic, but without color… I like color. I like black&white also. I like type. (nice poem?)
Nov 2, 2009 by ståle
Recently I got this tee in a nice package in my mailbox. Thought I´ll share it with you, not the tee but some pics of it…
Bought @Random Objects.
Yep.
Oct 29, 2009 by ståle
Non-Format have released a new font available for purchase! Super cool. The fonts name is OTTO. Nice. If anyone wants to buy me a present, buy me this font. Thanks. Read more and/or buy the font here…
Oct 23, 2009 by Aasmund
Got friday news from Luth&Co with the new Unit Slab, a modern humasnistic slab made by Kris Sowersby, Christian Schwartz and Erik Spiekerman.
Quoted http://klim.co.nz: “Erik Spiekermann considers FF Unit (designed with Christian Schwartz) to be FF Meta’s “grown-up sister”. Comparing the two san-serifs one finds that Meta is warmer, more organic and slightly quirkier, whereas Unit is Teutonic, technical and serious. Despite these differences, they both clearly come from a similar place, sharing the same DNA.
During the development of Meta Serif, we identified the organic quirks of the original Meta and translated the relevant parts to serif forms by redrawing everything from scratch. Unit Slab was a much different design process. Unit possessed a solid skeleton that easily accepted slabs, making the first drafts fairly straight-forward to complete. However, it quickly became apparent that we couldn’t simply graft slabs onto Unit—the sheer size of the family (7 weights with italics, smallcaps and exhaustive numeral sets) and the subtlety of the slab-serif form demanded an unerring eye for detail combined with stamina for the marathon design process. Fortunately, the resulting slab-serif is the perfect typographic companion in style, tone and aesthetic to the original Unit.”
Oct 19, 2009 by ståle
Stumbled upon this sweet thing on Behance. Eibatova Karina ( Eika ) have used pencil and drawn out the alphabet. her project idea was: To represent a letter in a natural form and appearance. Nice! Check out more (details+video+story behind) here. And while I`m at it, sharpen your pencils and draw me a picture. Thanks.
Oct 19, 2009 by ståle
We (UREDD) got a new book a few weeks ago. Type addict. It is great. just so you know…
Jul 27, 2009 by ståle
Aasmund bloged about the IQfont the other day. I liked the idea of a typeface being made by a car, so i googled a bit and BAM! I found a free download of the font. So, there you go… download and have fun.
peace.
Jul 14, 2009 by ståle
Popped by Onionmag just now, and damn the first post I saw was a killer!
Bela Borsodi made these letters for WAD magazine. Beautiful!
Thanks Onionmag!
Jun 17, 2009 by ståle
I´ve been to the tattoo man to day and done this:
Result:
Jun 3, 2009 by ståle
Got a Newsletter to day. Gestalten gives us a free font… go fetch!
Gestalten
