January 2011
16 posts
And while we’re dwelling on French design, here’s something new to go with the old— the wonderfully playful work of à 2 c’est mieux (which translates—roughly—to “with two it’s better”). Don’t miss the playground. So much fun.
We had the typography of Jean-Luc Godard on the brain this morning, and it seems that everyone else did, too. A quick search for this New Wave master revealed a wealth of exciting new online resources of his work. First there are the collections of Godard’s titles and intertitles at the Walker Art Center blog and Movie Title Stills Collection. Then there’s Atelier Carvalho Bernau’s release of The JeanLuc Alphabet, a typeface based on the PDU alphabet, used extensively in Godard’s title sequences. Atelier Carvalho Bernau also links to some other great Godard references, including Laura Forde’s lecture “Jean-Luc Godard’s Critical Appropriation of Graphic Design in the 1960s.”
Another snowy weekend in New York. See you on Monday.
Shakespeare via Ed Ruscha (1987). Feel like we could blog about him every single day and never run out of good stuff.
MoMA announces the acquisition of 23 digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design Collection.
This cover is a few years old, but new to us, as we’ve just stumbled across this fantastic-looking magazine from Knee High Media. Really worth a look through.
Lady Gaga’s massive hit Telephone becomes a delightful 50s-style children’s book after Andrew Kolb gets his hands on it.
Loving the vibrant work of Michiel Shuurman on an otherwise gray winter day. His site is currently under construction. Hope an update comes before spring. We’ll need it.
ITC, the original publisher of U&lc, is re-releasing scans of every issue of this seminal publication through the Fonts.com blog. Pictured here is a page from the very first issue. Awesome.
Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji. The project was conceived and edited by Fred Benenson.
Lovely new iPad-only magazine Post. From Remi Paringaux of Dazed & Confused and Vogue Hommes Japan.
Update: Interesting review by Andrew Losowsky
If you’re near Oakland check out the latest at Swarm Gallery, a two-person show featuring Alexis Anne Mackenzie (featured in Issue 1) and Austin-based artist Katy Horan. The exhibition, BLOOM & GLOOM, opens tonight with a reception from 6-9 and runs through February 27.
