Uh-oh, seems I’m a foodie AND a fontie. The Globe & Mail’s Ivor Tossell says that’s an annoying combo in his recent Globe & Mail rant For The Love of Typography. And yes Ivor, it’s true, Comic Sans sucks like [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 15th, 2007
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Serifs, sans serifs, baselines, kerning, leading, rhythm, contrast, readability, hierarchy. These are all concepts that trained graphic designers who specialize in print are well aware of, but seldom applied to the web. Why is that? For a s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
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Beside a 16x9 anamorphic widescreen presentation, with English and German language subtitles, and a 12-page color booklet, the DVD includes 90 minutes of additional interviews with Massimo Vignelli, Matthew Carter, Erik Spiekermann, Hermann Zapf, and many more. Spiekermann was hilarious in the film, but you just know he had more to say than that!
DVDs ship as early as November 6, but if you order now, you'll save some cash, get early shipping and exclusive goodies. There's also a limited-edition box set, which includes the DVD, three letterpressed mini-posters, a color C-print of a still from the film (one of ten different stills) signed by director Gary Hustwit, two love/hate Helvetica buttons, and a letter of actual Helvetica metal type! Limited edition of 1,000 copies, order yours now.
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You’ve seen the film Helvetica. Now you want to own it for yourself and see all the other stuff said by those designers that didn’t make the cut. Now you can pre-order your own copy of Helvetica on DVD.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
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Rumor has it that there will be announcement by GDC of a second screening of Gary Hustwit’s documentary Helvetica in Vancouver on August 7th, but for those who can’t make it you can always watch this celebration of Cooper Black [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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Having been involved in the Digital Design and Digital Design Programs at VFS for a number of years now, it’s a source of pride when our design students really “get it”. Check out this impressive motion graphics project do [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 4th, 2007
Categories: Design, Education, Film, Typography, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
The title of this posting sounds like some twisted thing Ben would say. Let me explain, what I mean is, it is getting really easy for a web developer to sprinkle a little magic on their websites with some help from the open source AJAX libr [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Categories: Typography | 1 Comment »
If you’ve never had the rare privilege to hear Canadian poet, typographer and author Robert Bringhurst speak in person, here’s your chance. He’s a captivating speaker – sort of like Dr. Hunter S. Thomson mixed with a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 17th, 2007
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London College of Printing’s David Dabner claims “Computers make design students sloppy.” Probably true in many ways. Not many of us get the privilege of learning how to set movable type for letterpress anymore. Here’ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 15th, 2007
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I always enjoy seeing what Google comes up with when specializing their logo for holidays and events. They must have been in a hurry to get their Valentine’s Day logo up (what with taking over the world and all) because their designer [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Categories: Pop Culture, Typography, Websites | 1 Comment »
Being the tech head that I am though I dug a little further into these 3 sites (The The Playground, Rick Valicenti and 3ST) are all non flash, standards compliant websites build with XHTML, CSS and Javascript. As a user, I've watched the rise of Flash and I'm kind of conditioned to equate movement with Flash. And a huge props to the "Apple + U: View Source" for this one!
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Stumbled on The Playground this morning which is an experimental site presented by Rick Valicenti. (of 3ST among others. Anyways the premise of this site is to “to create an alphabet of 26 characters illuminated not to start a sentenc [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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Astronauts, geographers, and typographers alike can all find joy in the impressive world of Geogreetings. Geogreetings are in my definition, “The combining of a sattellite’s view of landmarks, algorithmic(seemingly, but not real [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, November 17th, 2006
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The exhibit was impressive with over fifty linear meters of 6 foot high posters showing the various typefaces designed by FontFont over the last 15 years. Neville Brody himself was present as the evening's special guest speaker causing young designers and students to giggle with delight as they got to meet one of their heroes. I even met a young designer who did her Masters design thesis on Brody. I have to admit, even I was a bit intimidated by meeting the man.
Then, while chatting with an older graphic designer, we both noticed some oddities in the body copy of one of the main posters hanging beside us explaining Brody's FUSE project. What first caught our eye was the justified paragraph amongst the aligned left text copy. But on closer examination we also found a typo, a widow, unusual letterspacing and horribly misaligned baselines - all in the same block of body copy. Now, of course Brody is well known for innovative typesetting, but this was straight up body copy in a text box.
My new friend found this all very offensive in a typography exhibit and decided Mr. Brody must be informed. So, to my horror, he marched over and literally dragged the surprised man over to the posters where we stood.
"Look at this!" says my excited design chum, "what rookie set this type?" he said as he pointed out the obvious errors. I was mortified as you can imagine – a hero and icon of graphic and type design challenged publicly like this.
"I did," admitted Brody, continuing "did you at least read the words? That's all I really care." Adding some comment about the difference between font design and setting type as though Norm, himself a very experienced graphic designer, was beneath him for asking.
"No," answered Norm, "I was too distracted by the horrible typesetting." Pow! Ouch. I backed away slowly, pretending to be engrossed in another poster.
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This year’s Design Thinkers conference kick off party featured the Canadian debut of the FIFFteen Exhibit at Resistor Gallery in Toronto’s funky College Street district. Celebrating 15 years of the FontFont type library co-found [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 6th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Typography | 1 Comment »
