A nice video by Boca & Ryan Uhrich on the wolrd of typography. they give us a ride in all aspects of typography.
(via Newstoday)
June, 2007 Monthly archive
For the 4th annual Typophile Film Festival to take place at TypeCon, this year in Seattle during August 1-5, 2007.
The film festival is wide open to anything relevant to typography, design history, and/or type design. It can be educational, experimental, inspiring or humorous.
The Typophile Film Festival debuted in 2004 at TypeCon San Francisco, and showcased fifteen short works of typography in motion from around the world, including films by Erik Spiekermann, H5, Motion Theory, Trollbäck + Company, Cheshire Dave, and others.
TFF 2005, at TypeCon NYC, showcased typographic works by Strange Attractors, WeWorkForThem, RESN, mono, Font Bureau, Max Kisman and others.
Overview & Eligibility
By submitting a piece for consideration, you affirm that you retain rights to such work, and that you acknowledge the right of Typophile and SOTA to use the work for festival exhibition and promotion.
- There is no fee to enter.
- Finalists will be chosen by Typophile at its sole discretion.
- This is a showcase, not a contest.
- All work shown will be properly credited in Typophile Film Festival materials.
DEADLINE
Friday, 30 June 2007 at midnight PST (Firm)
Helvetica Nation, a commemorative wordmark on the occassion of Helvetica’s 50 Year Anniversary. Translated for 9 different countries with a strong design culture. Typeface aside, the logo serendipitously includes the number 50 and a subliminal Swiss cross.
$35 USD/Shirt (shipping: $10 North America, $15 Rest of the world)
Contact: Emmanuel Buenviaje / info [at] helveticanation.com
Poster by Anthony Burrill
The Kemistry Gallery presents “Print run”. A charity exhibition running for Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation (Registered Charity No.1046584). This event will show the work of amazing designers like : Build, North, BB/Saunders, Anthony Burrill, Spin, Experimental Jetset…
Display 08/06/07-21/06/07. (map here)
About this exhibition :
Health is a condition of the body and mind. The term has gained large media coverage in recent years, introducing a whole new social conscious toward wellbeing. While the media affirms that its information is passed as impartial it delivers a confused model of health, predominantly between its offer of dietary advice and its unscrupulous access into celebrity weaknesses. With every statement concerning health, questions or counter-statements are raised; this goes to show that the term ‘health’ is ambiguous and amorphous, defined by the individual’s sense of their personal condition. In turn, this is a reflection of design, on how we perceive pure, flawless, ‘healthy’ work,
Design and health both embody tangible and intangible facets; while its form is evidently present in our environments, often our needs as designers for structure and clarity must come from the same formless conditioning we recognize as health. Understanding that health is a key aspect to design became elaborated during the late period of modernism, where wholesome ideals were transcended into both business and leisure activities.
The conscious decision-making when designing, is our way of finding personal resolve and vitality. It is common amongst graphic designers that once a complete piece of work has gone to print that there is a lack of personal fulfillment; it appears that a designer needs more than a printed outcome to feel that their work
is complete.
(Source : Print run)
Every posters of this exhibition are available, for only 70£ each, at Blanka.co.uk, only 10 copies of each available. So… Hurry !
(Thanks to Jonathan Turner and Mark Blamire for the info)
Michael McDonald has an interesting grid-based portfolio, with slick and accurate works within that are truly worth the look.
