Interview in Slanted #11 – Monospace, Typewriter
The Summer 2010 issue of German typography magazine Slanted focuses on monospaced and typewriter faces. It features an interview with yours truly, conducted by Julia Kahl at TYPO Berlin 2010 “Passion”. With The Revolution won’t be set in Garamond as tagline, Slanted #11 – Monospace, Typewriter comes in a revised structure and layout. Projects are confronted with each other, and magazine sections overlap. The changes reflect Slanted’s attitude towards contemporary editorial design in analogue and digital times. This “new order” is a homage to the visual and to design.
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ScreenFonts: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Last Airbender, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Inception, Life During Wartime
My oh my, these Font Of The Day posts didn’t look so impressive, but they sure put a dent in my publishing schedule. I hope you managed to enjoy a cool 20% off on some FontFonts. Yesterday morning my favourite radio station left their summer programmes behind and now they are back on their regular schedule, so I guess summer is officially over. Well, to be honest, fall already began a month ago here in Belgium. Rotten weather. It’s way past high time I get the July episode of ScreenFonts online. Buckle up, here we go.
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Celebrating 20 Years of FontShop With Jürgen Siebert
Now Chief Marketing Officer of FontShop AG, Jürgen Siebert joined FontShop in its very early days. The dynamic co-founder of German graphic arts magazine PAGE was involved in every major marketing project of the original vendor of digital type. Jürgen also co-edited FontBook – dubbed the bible of digital typefaces – and is a member of the FontFont TypeBoard. Since 1997 he has been responsible for FontShop Germany’s TYPO Berlin, arguably the largest annual design conference in Europe. Jürgen edits Fontblog.de, an online journal of design, typography and media which entered the Top 20 in the German blog charts in summer 2008. Translations of his posts occasionally find their way to the FontFeed.
FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
I know I still owe you July’s ScreenFonts – please bear with me a little longer, it’s in the works. I have been busy helping out with FontFont’s current anniversary promotion, writing up posts for FontShop Blog. To celebrate 20 years, FontFont is offering 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days.
Read moreTypeCon2010: Babel Officially Opens Tonight
This week the typographic world congregates in Los Angeles, as TypeCon2010: Babel takes over the City of the Angels. The Society of Typographic Aficionados presents its annual letterfest, featuring more than 70 of the brightest names in type and design, including: Akira Kobayashi, Doyald Young, Jill Bell, Teri Kahan, Andrew Byrom, Sean Adams, Richard Kegler, [...]
Read more“L’Eau et Les Rêves”, A Typographic Fountain In Vence
Another piece of typographic environmental art we saw on our vacation was L’eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams), a “miroir d’eau” (best translated as “water mirror”) in Vence, the town we stayed in. I first noticed the new public sculpture in 2007, the last time we were in Vence. It is a long rectangular [...]
Read moreMy Type of Music: Rick Ross, Sheryl Crow, Actress, Tracy Bonham, Tom Jones, Danzig
An overview of covers of recently released albums.
Read moreNomade, A Man of Letters Looking Out Over The Mediterranean
I’m back from our family vacation since Monday night. Of course, with my “condition” I never really am on vacation. Several typographic and type-related things caught my eye in the two weeks we spent at the Côte d’Azur (or French Riviera if you prefer), sparking ideas for possible topics on The FontFeed. Without a doubt [...]
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