A few things I’ve learned about typeface design By Gerry Leonidas

Gerry Leonidas's brilliant article about things he has learned about typeface design. http://bit.ly/cOz3fy

marian bantjes

Canadian graphic designer, illustrator Marian bantjes is a speaker at the TED conference in Long Beach today. I wish I was there. worked as a book typesetter for 10 years (1984–1994), marian bantjes had a deep understanding of typography. Her innovative hand work, patterning and highly ornamental style made her "one of the most innovative typographers working today,". Check her blog www.bantjes.com

Below is a lecture she did two years ago in Walker Art Center, Minnesota.

What Type Are You?

Which type face represents your characters? I just completed the test from Pentagram: What type Are You?. A very interesting piece you should try!
According to Pentagram, this ‘project’ was researched over seven years with a team of 23 academics across Eastern Europe, it asks the four key character questions of our day, analyses your responses in exceptional detail and recommends one of 16 typefaces as a result.
My result is Dot Matrix. I am a little bit disappointed since this is not the one from my favorites.
Is it a sign to show that I have been teaching web based course too long?
Click to go to the 'What Type Are You' test.
The password is 'character.'

Two Taiwan film posters

Two Taiwan film posters. Nice hand writing and Chinese characts.

Cubic

Cubic: an interesting font from myfont.com. All 3 fonts: $70.

Nice handmade letter and image. I like this DVD cover design. It is from Time's top 10 list of 2007: It is listed #9:
#9. Berlin Alexanderplatz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15½-hour epic — a sensation and a scandal when it premiered on German TV in 1980 — is finally on DVD, in a digital restoration much cleaner than any other version, including the original broadcast. In adapting Alfred Doblin's 1929 novel, the German wunderbrat created a fresco of Weimar Berliners ground down by their base appetites and that form of bad luck known as Fate. But the movie is no downer. Fassbinder was every bit as much entertainer as artist, and this, his masterpiece, is a tonic experience.

Tokyo Type Directors Club

Tokyo Type Directors Club (Tokyo TDC) was found in 1987 with the mission to firmly establish the field of "type direction.". It has involved extensive and deep searches into the visual expressions of letters, going far beyond conventional character designing. It's main activity is the annual international design competition which Embracing free-flowing ideas, flexible rules and a perceptive eye for quality. Check the website and see the winner's work. http://www.tdctokyo.org/awards/award07/index_e.html

Type 01