My Type of Music: Gary Numan, The Roots, The Black Keys, Jónsi, Tim McGraw, Gotye
I am on the TGV to Paris as I write this, on my way to act as “Président du Jury”, Typography category, of the annual design competition organised by the Club des Directeurs Artistiques de Paris. I don’t know when I’ll be ready, yet one thing is certain – this instalment of My Type of Music is late. Although I did manage to assemble all the covers and do basic research, it was a bit difficult for me to snap back into rant mode last week. I honestly don’t know how this episode will work out. Here’s some album covers from January, with the first ones dating back as far as the end of November.
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TYPO to San Francisco
A story’s been quietly developing out of our San Francisco office over the past few months. Meghan Arnold and Michael Pieracci, our respective communications director and logistics man have steadily laid the groundwork and made way for the arrival of TYPO, Europe’s premier design conference, to our city. As April approaches and we enter the next phase of publicity and preparations, the two continue to work steadily at creating time and space for meaningful personal connections and the coming together of a community.
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Calligraphy Performance By Timothy Donaldson At Opening “Signs for Sounds” Exhibition
Letter worker, graphic designer, type designer and action calligrapher Timothy Donaldson created a new piece of calligraphy at Bilston Craft Gallery. The piece was commissioned by The Harley Gallery as part of Signs for Sounds. This touring exhibition curated by Jeremy Theophilus explores the contemporary practice of letter-forming from traditional calligraphy to the use of digital technologies and performance. It considers the impact of letter form, an art that we are surrounded by everyday – from traditional calligraphy to hi-tech type design. The event was beautifully captured on video by Anthony Davies for Last Phoenix Films. We witness the creation of a calligraphic work of art, as gesture becomes calligraphic movement becomes word, whose meaning is gradually obfuscated until it becomes meta-text. Timothy eloquently comments.
Read moreJean 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 [...]
Read moreFunky 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 [...]
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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 [...]
Read moreScreenFonts: Shame; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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