Devoted to the art, design & context of typography
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Just a little post today, about a cool video I came across the other day. Oguzhan Ocalan of Gravitart recently released his new Badona family, and to promote it he created a little video for it, embedded below.
Badona Font Family from gravitart on Vimeo.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
This is a re-posting from my other blog on a topic relevant to typography, intended to signal that I am, in fact, still actively blogging here. Have a post or two up my sleeve…
It’s often said that print is dead, the web is king, and long live the masses.
While I totally agree with the last point, I have a bone to pick with the first two. Namely, print’s not dead, it’s just in need of an overhaul; and that the web is king for certain things. Like anything, context plays a greater role in determining the viability of a media over anything else, and I firmly believe that print can find its niche in the evolving digital landscape. (more…)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Just a quick update here, that I’m back blogging again, but in a slightly less formalized way.
I found that, as much as I love typography, I wanted to sound off about other parts of design and creativity which the limited scope of the blog didn’t, by nature, let me. So, after a few weeks of pondering different ideas, I’ve started up an update-as-I-have-it blog called Design Thoughts which will serve as my own personal soapbox for opinions, essays and criticisms of pretty much anything. I’ll likely be posting a post every week or two, but you can be sure that each post has some meat on its bones and it’s not just a list, roundup or another stat-stuffing grab.
So, feel free to check it out. I’ve posted a couple older “soapbox” pieces so far, with a couple more previously-written pieces to come alongside some original content. There’s only a few “archival” pieces going up, so the new stuff will get rolling asap. Check it out, and please, by all means, update your feeds!
Monday, 5 October 2009
So I’m going to be taking a little break from regular blogging, at least with Thoughts on Type (I also write at http://www.dailyfaceoff.com). With a whopping 10 readers on FeedBurner, it seems relatively unnecessary to post this, but I felt a quick explanation was necessary.
My love for typography and design has not diminished; in fact, the more I learn, the more I do and the more I immerse myself in the graphic world, the more I feel at home in it. However, I am still relatively new to the field, and it seems a bit audacious for a neophyte to wax poetic about the finer points of 500+ years of technological and artistic progress. The good thing about having a blog is that it forces you to get in a rhythm of observing and reacting, which is a rhythm I was in anyway, but when there’s barely any crowd to speak of, and barely any growth over the 6+ months of regular postings, it’s time to call a spade a spade and put a pause on proceedings, at least for now.
In the future, ideally sooner rather than later, I’d like to take up blogging again, as there are still tons of ideas bubbling around in this head. However, there’s a ton on my plate right now (I start my new position at Applied Arts magazine next week, working freelance full-time this week, moving soon, misc. other life-related stuff), there’s a ton coming in the months ahead, and it doesn’t seem to make sense to keep a forced rhythm when I’m not sure how much time I’ll be able to dedicate to it.
This blog will be back, with a bang, but when it’s ready to be written. I’ll still be super-active on twitter, commenting on other blogs, I’ll be shifting my random postings focus to tumblr (http://typetumble.tumblr.com/), and generally still be involved to what little degree I was before. This is all just part of the “Do It, Don’t Say It” mindset I’ve been adjusting to and embracing over the past month or so.
‘Til next time.
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
This is the 25th anniversay of Typeface Tuesday! Granted, it’s 25 weeks not 25 years, but nonetheless, huzzah! That’s 125 different typefaces from MyFonts that have been highlighted for their uniqueness, beauty, functionality or price – and what better way to celebrate than with 5 more! Broadway is a decent showbiz font, an adequate replacement to the default (and oh-so-90s) Jazz LET. We follow that up with Magistral, a futuristic sans serif from ParaType; Mussica, a playful little serif that’s skyrocketing up the charts of MyFonts; New Caslon EF, Elsner+Flake’s take on the eminent classical serif; and finally Occulista, a display face absolutely perfect for anything neon, 1970s or loud. Keep an eye on this space for a special edition of Typeface Tuesday next week… (more…)