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Jean Jacques Peters 1941–2012

After battling a very aggressive cancer for over a year, yesterday evening my father chose to not let his illness have the last word. I feel very fortunate that we live in a civilized, humane country, where a person at the end of his life can decide to leave with dignity, without any more needless suffering.

Somewhat related – I would like to apologise to the people coming to tonight’s BNO Romeo Delta evening CUT! in Rotterdam for not showing up. The organisation is looking into rescheduling my presentation at a later date, most probably the next IMG LAB evening on February 20th.

Uncategorized | Yves Peters | January 23, 2012

Funky Experimental Typographic Poetry In Flickermood

The weekend is upon us, and I am feeling in a strangely funky mood today – not that I have any reason to. I thought I’d throw an animated typography classic at you. Type designer and MA Typeface Design alumnus from the University of Reading Paul Hunt once suggested Flickermood for inclusion in the Typophile Film Fest. This video was directed and animated by Sebastian Lange, motion designer at Qu-Int. Text fragments from the poem Mutability by 19th century English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley were animated in Adobe AfterEffects, flawlessly synchronised to an edit of the contemporary funky jazz breaks track Flickermood by Forss from Sonar Kollektiv. The most recent version of this experimental typographic orgy was expanded to almost three minutes of mind-blowing animated typography.

Fonts in Use, ScreenFonts | Yves Peters | January 20, 2012

FontFont Focus: FF Good, FF More, FF Best!

One of the things the FontFont library is known for are its extensive type families that cross type classifications. The jury is still out whether we should call them super families or type systems, but one thing is sure – these co-ordinated type families of serif and sans serif companions (and sometimes even more) are ideally suited for graphic identities, complex publications, editorial design and so on. While some like FF Nexus were specifically conceived as such, others start as humble typefaces with a couple of styles and gradually expand into sprawling typographic systems. The best-known example of this is of course FF Meta. Recently one of Łukasz Dziedzic’s typefaces made similar transition. He first expanded his sans serif family FF Good from 9 to a whopping 60 styles; then he built the 30 styles of the serif FF More to work alongside it. An interview.

Handpicked Typefaces | Yves Peters | January 19, 2012

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