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May, 2007 Monthly archive

Kansas City screening
RIT Screening

For those who didn’t had the chance to book a seat for the show friday 25th May, you have a second chance. A new screening date has be scheduled for the day after, saturday 26th at 5:00 pm at Palais de Tokyo. Don’t miss it.

To book your seat send a mail to Fsept : reservation@fsept.net

Toypography

Toypography, by Dainippon Type Organization (first seen at DesignTide 2006) is a toy of typography. Fragments of letters, that can be put together to either English or Japanese letters and characters. The thing about Toypography is, that Japanese expressions can be transformed into English expressions of the same meaning.

(via swissmiss)

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Mark Blamire of Blanka informed me of this interesting article about Helvetica on the BBC website.

The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday. You’ve probably seen it a thousand times today. Why?

At this moment in boardrooms across the globe, captains of industry are leafing through sheet after sheet of typefaces. There are hundreds of choices, but many of these movers and shakers don’t take a lot of leafing before plumping for Helvetica.

Read the article here.

Ink Magazine, issue 1

The first issue of the french collaborative type magazine Ink will be out in May. This issue will featured: Experimental Jetset, Atelier Télescopique, Thomas Couderc, Le club des chevreuils and more…

32 pages, 190 x 260mm, printed in B&W.
300 copies.
Price : 5 euros.

More info here (in french)