Font Aid IV: Coming Together, a Collaborative Typeface
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake occurred approximately 16 miles (25 km) west of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake caused major damage to Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. The International Red Cross estimates that three million people were affected by the quake, with as many as one million Haitians left homeless. Casualty estimates continue to climb. Due to the widespread devastation and damage, vital infrastructure necessary to respond to the disaster has been severely damaged or destroyed. A spokeswoman from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs called this the worst disaster the UN has ever confronted. By the end of January Society of Typographic Aficionados(SOTA) announced the launch of Font Aid IV, a project uniting the typographic and design communities in raising funds to expedite relief efforts in Haiti. Type designers, graphic designers and other artists from around the world were invited to contribute artwork to be included in a typeface created exclusively for the Font Aid IV effort. The theme of Font Aid IV is “Coming Together” which is represented though a font consisting entirely of ampersands. Coming Together will be made available for sale, with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders.
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TYPO Berlin 2010 - The TYPO Game:
Picture Your Passion
Just like last year, TYPO Berlin is holding a contest for its 2010 edition. Let the Passion logo reveal what ignites your passion. Cut out the logo and use it to mark the object, the image, the person, the activity, the whatever you love and would do anything for. Make an image* of your passion and send it to TYPO Berlin. Running up to the conference, from May 20 to 22, each week three prizes will be randomly drawn amongst that week’s entrants**.
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Langara College Promotes Rethink Scholarship Contest With Video
These past few weeks one name in the previous post about the Grammy Award nominees and winners has been tweeted and blogged about quite intensively. Rethink Communications – credited as the communication agency responsible for the pretty impressive Splitting Adam album cover – have created a very popular ad promoting the Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries. Last week BestAds.com selected the video as its best TV ad of the week, and it was lauded in The Globe And Mail.
The Canadian newspaper may ring a bell with type aficionados – three years ago it was redesigned by Editorial Design Director David Pratt and Assistant Art Director David Woodside, using custom typefaces by Nick Shinn. The serif leg of the type system is now commercially available as Pratt.
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