Posts by Yves Peters
Sign Painters Movie Explores Contemporary Sign Painting
The official trailer for “Sign Painters”, a documentary by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon.
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TYPO SF 2013 “Contrast” Presents Type Track
This year TYPO SF adds a Type Track in the intimate, 100-seat YBCA Screening Room to its schedule.
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My Type of Music: April’s Fool Special
My Type of Music posts typically are a little harder to write. However some months it seems as if the stars in the typographical heavens align and too many albums with great covers are released. Maybe it’s because March heralds the new Spring – not that we’ve noticed in uncharacteristically cold and even occasionally snowy Belgium – [...]
Read moreLast Days of Reduced Rate for TYPO Berlin 2013 “Touch”
You can always count on the TYPO organisers to come up with fun surprise initiatives. Their Early Bird reduced rates were supposed to end on February 28. That is, until they realised this year is an important anniversary for the Berlin design conference (which now also has sister events in London and San Francisco). Its [...]
Read moreScreenFonts: Bullet In The Head, Side Effects, Beautiful Creatures, Safe Haven
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreColvert, Achieving Harmony Through Diversity
Earlier this year the French typographies.fr joined FontShop as an exclusive foundry. Founded five years ago by Jonathan Perez – who was joined by Laurent Bourcellier a couple of weeks after its inception – the foundry’s mission is to create and distribute Latin and non-Latin typefaces, adhering to the highest aesthetic and linguistic standards. The typographies.fr typefaces [...]
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Discover Typographica’s “Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012”
The wait is finally over, and it was well worth it. Not a Best Of-list nor an Award, Typographica’s Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012 celebrates type design by inviting type connoisseurs – typographers, type and other designers, type commentators, … – to select one typeface released in the past year and write a review about it. This year’s [...]
Read moreHelp Touch: The Vista Sans Wood Type Project Get Funded
I would like to point you to a lovely project on Kickstarter which needs its last tiny push to get funded in a little over 24 hours. The Vista Sans Wood Type Project is a collaborative project involving 21 innovative letterpress artists, designers and studios from all over the world. It was initiated by Tricia [...]
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