1. Tomato Košir

    nice use of gradients on a Baby Teeth like font; that could be simulated by rasters – what do you think?

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    November 26, 2008 by jerome
    Category: the work of others
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  2. dingbats

    it’s not far from your work jerome…

    by bertrand
    Category: repetition
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  3. Obamabats vs Fontnestbats

    Yo everybody!

    Do you rememeber the good old days… when we were designing dingbats for whatever?

    It could be nice to make a Fontnest dingbats for the next workshop… ?nop?

    by bertrand
    Category: WORKSHOP
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  4. Nefertiti – thin egyptienne

    Nefertiti – thin Egyptienne (Workshop n°0: Fontes à 40 mains)
    the format to handle to the group is vector based, so EPS or SVG is the best i assume
    the only parameter fixed is the x-height: 20cm
    we all know it will be a thin, with square terminations (egyptienne is part of Thibeaudau classification in france * or is it up for interpretation as well? you decide!), and it would be named after nefertiti…
    the rest is up for interpretation: highs, lows, top/bottom proportion, general shape, termination size/proportion, precise weight

    DEADLINE: 9th of December.

    Here are the glyphs; I reduced the amount to the caps and lower case, plus integer and few ponctuation signs.

    sylvain: 1
    AhD–m3KçtQ€z
    (* em dash)

    jerome: 2
    V.YF…o5MObS¥

    bertrand: 3
    g?j0Hfiq79wdU

    jak: 4
    ;C—l2J{ft}suRyf
    (* en dash)

    christian: 5
    !XE:n4LßPc£,

    harry: 6
    BiZG&p6NaxT

    amandine: 7
    W-k1I{fl}r8v$e
    (* math symb minus)

    November 25, 2008 by jerome
    Category: WORKSHOP, internal
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  5. Eric Gill Controversies

    Whilst Gill was a deeply religious man, largely following the Roman Catholic faith, his beliefs and practices were by no means orthodox. His personal diaries describe his sexual activity in great detail including the fact that Gill sexually abused his own children, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and performed sexual acts on his dog. This aspect of Gill’s life was little known until publication of the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy. Robert Speaight’s earlier biography mentioned none of it.

    Check out:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill

    by bertrand
    Category: press
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  6. Illustrative Typeface

    some really nice drawings where sometimes characters and words appear and are made of various elements.

    g+wd takashi okada portforio

    November 18, 2008 by jerome
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  7. Mapa connexion


    Medium: Scanner & fully lined household rubber gloves.
    I suppose this is a type specifically designed to discuss household matters.

    Cumulus

    by amandine
    Category: experiments, process
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  8. Action Types

    Marcus Schaefer: 3 dimensionnal typefaces you can play with: check more things on his pages: Online Portfolio of Interaction Designer Marcus Schaefer » Action Types (via Preik, via Designyoutrust)

    November 17, 2008 by jerome
    Category: the work of others, typeface
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  9. ☼ Nice Events in London / Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?


    ☼ Nice Events in London / Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?

    Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?
    Location: Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
    Description: The adjective ‘systematic’ (from the Greek word ‘systematikos’) means, in one dictionary definition: ‘proceeding from a system, methodical, planned; corresponding to a system’. Systematic book design thus means: book design that follows a plan fixed before the work begins. A conscious, rational procedure sooner or later reaches an end: the unconscious – or that which is a matter of feeling – plays a large and often decisive role in design. Using examples from some of his own works, Jost Hochuli will try to show where the irrational has resolved rational decisons.

    After this talk Jost will be happy to answer questions both on book design and aspects of typographic detailing, the subject of his new book ’Detail in typography’. Copies of this book published by Hyphen Press will be available for on sale on the evening at a specially discounted rate.

    About the speaker

    Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer and graphic designer. After study at the Kunstgewerbeschule St.Gallen, he trained as a compositor with the printer Zollikofer and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich; his education was completed in 1958–9 in Adrian Frutiger’s class at the Ecole Estienne. Since then he has practised as a freelance graphic designer, eventually specializing in book design. In 1979 he co-founded the co-operatively run publishing company VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft St.Gallen, for which much of his book design work has been done. He has taught at the schools at Zurich and then St Gallen since 1967. As writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and a major monograph on his work: Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). An English-language edition of his Detail in typography was published earlier this year. He has edited and designed the annually published ‘Typotron’ series of booklets (1983–98) and the Edition ‘Ostschweiz’ (from 2000).

    Start Time: 19:00
    Date: 2008-11-27

     

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  10. Souvenir souvenir

    rollergirl

    by Harry
    Category: experiments
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