Who doesn’t know typographer/art director from the 50s and 60s Roger Excoffon? Published for an exhibition at Musée de l’imprimerie in Lyon, this book gather more than 100 documents previously unpublished.
éditions Deux-Cent-Cinq
Format 14 x 19,5 cm / 128 pages
Softcover
French texts
1000 copies, printed in France!
Graphic design: Extrafine
15 €
The rapidly expanding online market for digital typefaces is exciting and diverse. With new fonts and type foundries launching on an almost daily basis, it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments—until now. Type Navigator is a useful current handbook of modern fonts, independent foundries, and innovative type designers that provides an overview of today’s vast market. This comprehensive publication offers a valuable overview of international sources for quality fonts. In addition to concise profiles of type foundries and recent typefaces, Type Navigator features inspirational visual examples of fonts in use. A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the 320-page book.
Jan Middendorp, TwoPoints.Net
Release Date: September 2011
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 320 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM with 100 typefaces from 20 foundries
Language: English
Catalog Price: €49.90 / $78.00 / £45.00
Nice identity work by James Kape.
Speed Republic is a small start-up company specializing in trade and the resale of hi-end motor vehicles in South Africa.
The brief was simple, to create a clean and contemporary symbol that was to be applied to a variety of collateral as needed. The origin of the final mark stems from the trafficking symbol “No limit”. This reference was intended as a tribute to both the industry which it represents as well as the greater idea that Speed Republic are not in short supply of limited edition vehicles.
First audiobooks and then portable reading devices. What ever happened to the original greatness of a written text – the art of finely adjusted characters, placed on natural pieces of paper?
As a retrogressive reaction to the technology development in the world today, Mattias Sahlén made these not-suitable-for-reading-on-the-bus booksters, where written words will remain written. They’ll not get digitialized and hidden away in some music-flipping-pod-slash-picture-showing-browsing-machine.
Instead, he took it back to where it all began. With characters old school printed on old school pieces of paper. And posteralized the whole shebang.
The calendar side is based on a 15 column grid across the full width of an A1 sheet — A dual function piece — The A1 calendar can be folded into a 5 column fold out A1 length mailer, which allows for less expensive and easier posting of the calendar. The reverse of the calendar features selected Trebleseven branding/design projects.
