Posts by Yves Peters
I Can’t Draw Animals…
This weekend A2-TYPE – the type foundry set up in 2010 by Henrik Kubel and Scott Williams’ design studio A2/Sw/Hk – posted a wonderful and surprisingly touching video on Vimeo. I Can’t Draw Animals… shows type designer Henrik Kubel hand lettering his own narration, explaining why he draws type. The video was produced as a final piece [...]
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TDC Greek Week-end With Gerry Leonidas Next Week
Gerry Leonidas returns to the TDC to instruct a weekend-long Greek workshop, November 2-4. Since the first TDC Greek Week-end in 2007, the demand for new typefaces to cover the Greek script has grown dramatically. Pan-european character sets have become the minimum expectation for branding and corporate projects, and the migration of publishers to new [...]
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ScreenFonts: The Words, Francine, The Master, Dredd, Solomon Kane, Looper
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreTYPO London 2012 In Full Swing
The British capital is currently experiencing “Social”, the second edition of TYPO London, and by the looks of it it’s another success. The first series of images have started appearing in the TYPO London 2012 Flickr Group Pool, and there’s also a Lockerz page. You can still catch iconic Dutch book designer Irma Boom’s presentation [...]
Read moreRosetta Camp Brings Type Designers Together
This September David Březina organised Rosetta Camp near the foundry’s headquarters in Brno (Czech Republic) to give its type designers the opportunity to meet and collaborate.
Read moreBob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues, Relettered
Some people say classics shouldn’t be messed with, but I see no harm in having a little fun with iconic fixtures of pop culture. And few are more iconic than the footage of Bob Dylan discarding cue cards to the lyrics of Subterranean Homesick Blues. Regarded widely as being the first “commercial” music video, in [...]
Read moreA Typographic Look Ahead At Rio 2016
As straight and angular as the London 2012 font by Alias was, as soft and round is the new custom typeface designed exlusively by Dalton Maag for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016. One of only a few bespoke fonts created by a Brazilian team, the Rio 2016™ font depicts [...]
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Interview With Sumner Stone For TDC’s Type Legends Series
This weekend the Type Directors Club of New York posted an interview with Sumner Stone conducted by Nick Sherman on their Vimeo account. It is the latest instalment in their Type Legends series, which also features interviews with Mike Parker, Ed Benguiat, and Erik Spiekermann. The iconic type designer recounts his career in type design, [...]
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