Posts by Yves Peters
Blue Note Records Mock Covers Celebrate Barack Obama
The FontFeed loves Blue Note Records and Reid Miles, so it was with great pleasure that I discovered the Barack Obama’s Jazz website. It is fascinating to see how the figure of the first African-American president of the USA continues to inspire the creative community, as witnessed for example in the Artists For Obama poster [...]
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New Website Pits Lettering Against Calligraphy
Lettering vs Calligraphy is the repository of a visual dialogue between letterer Martina Flor and calligrapher Guiseppe Salerno.
Read moreScreenFonts: Fun Size, Chasing Mavericks, The Sessions, The American Scream
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreHamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Forced to Relocate
It is not a good year for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. After having been flooded at the beginning of May, now its unique collection has to find a new home, and fast. Indeed, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum will no longer reside in the building that bears its name. The property [...]
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ScreenFonts: Frankenweenie, The Paperboy, Argo, Seven Psychopaths
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreWorks That Work, magazine of unexpected creativity
Peter Biľak, the founder of Typotheque (and former editor of Dot Dot Dot magazine) is starting a new design magazine, if he manages to raise sufficient funds by the end of the week!
Read moreOutcome 2012 Presidential Election Predictable By Typography?
Now that the dust has settled and the United States of America have elected their new… errr… old president, I thought I’d have a look at the campaign logos to see if the type tells us anything that we should have known. 20/20 hindsight, ya know? Since Shepard Fairey and the Obama camp embraced Gotham [...]
Read moreSecond Edition of Beyond Tellerrand Next Week
Just before lunch today I did a presentation at Webfontday 2012, a one-day conference organised by the Typographische Gesellschaft München. Up until recently I only talked at typography / graphic design conferences. Because of the rapid rise of webfonts I now have couple of web design / webfonts events under my belt too. My introduction to these was the [...]
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- Almost Blue is an overview of sleeves that are based on specific releases by Blue Note Records, or that are…Read more
- Netanyahu: Yes We Can … Knock-off Obama
- The campaign website of Benjamin Netanyahu, conservative Likud leader running for prime minister of Israel, feels unmistakably Obama-esque.…Read more
- Reid Miles Typography Comes To Life In Music Video
- A promotional video for the Bellavista Social Pub recreates a number of Blue Note album covers as tableaux vivants.…Read more
- Artists For Obama Poster Gallery
- The American presidential elections have inspired high-profile artists to donate poster designs for Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency.…Read more
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