Posts by Yves Peters
Mastering Type 2012 Presents New Type Design(er)s
For the second consecutive year Mota Italic showcases the type designs of the Type]Media and MATD graduates.
Read moreTipos Latinos 2012 Travels Around The World
Two years ago I reported about Tipos Latinos, dedicated to promoting Latin American typography and type design, for the first time. It is created by students, professionals, and enthusiastic followers spread out over the whole Latin American region. Its main objective is the organisation of Tipos Latinos, the Biennial of Latin American Typography, whose fifth [...]
Read moreScreenFonts: Moonrise Kingdom, Rock of Ages, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Magic Mike
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreIntentional Mistake Due To Wrong Assumptions
After writing about Fenstern Zeichen, Herbert Marker’s delightful gallery of Austrian shop signs, it pains me to show you this miserable failure for contrast. This sign which I discovered only recently graces the facade of a restaurant/bar on the Friday Market in Gent, my home town. When walking around the city, I have been confronted [...]
Read moreA Look at The TypeCon2012 MKE Shift Identity
The TypeCon identity radically changes every year – see for example my post on the 2009 identity by Under Consideration/Department of Design. SoTA always picks a local(ish) designer to represent the area through designing that year’s logo and identity. They usually go with “name” designers and have been happy with the results. This year however [...]
Read morePreserving Disappearing Architectural Lettering in Austria
With the modernisation of the urban landscape, vintage architectural lettering disappears at a worrying pace. Beautiful commercial signs above shop windows make way for default letter shapes in plexiglass and neon. As the logos of international chains take over, the couleur locale fades, making the typical shopping street look identical to any similar street in [...]
Read moreVirusFonts Releases Olympukes 2012, London Edition
On the occasion of the London 2012 Olympics, VirusFonts release Olympukes 2012 – a new set of pictograms for the London games. In 2004, VirusFonts originally took on the Olympic pictograms – the ultimate designer’s commission – but with a witty subversion. Rather than of expressing ‘inspirational’ human endeavour, the Virus pictograms acknowledged the complex contradictions of [...]
Read moreFonts In Use Now Open To Public Contributions
Great news for font addicts and typography collectors. Early this week Fonts In Use opened up their doors for public contributions. Launched in late 2010 by Sam Berlow, my original partner-in-font-geekery Stephen Coles, and Nick Sherman, the website originally was a blog showing real-world examples of type in action. Exploring type specimens is a nice [...]
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