Just posted Exorcist, a new track from our power-duo project called Gentlemen, for your listening pleasure. Shake your ass.
The more plays (and votes) the Gentlemen get this month, the better the chance they’ll receive funding in the November round of theaudience, to help them to make more great tunes.
Kris Sowersby’s Tiempos Text is employed to great effect in a new boxed collector’s set of Malcolm Gladwell books, designed by Paul Sahre and illustrated by Brian Rea. Read more at Co.Design.
Sidenote: Tiempos and its sibling Tiempos Headline look beautiful on the web too. Pretty much can’t wait until these are available for general web use.
I’m hugely impressed by the level of skill demonstrated by the Type and Media masters course in type design’s 2012 graduating class. Pictured are Christine Gertsh’s Allonghata and Dave Foster’s Blanco, which could easily have come from Underware and Commercial Type respectively.
Most people can’t discern good from bad typography but everybody can feel it.
— Oliver Reichenstein, writing on iA’s new, adaptive agency site about responsive typography, and the work his company has done to create multiple grades of its Nitti and iABC faces.
A Closer Look At Font Rendering
Type designer and Typekit consultant Tim Ahrens has written a comprehensive state of the play for Smashing Magazine regarding rendering engines and font formats for screen use. He covers the basics of rasterisation, the benefits and drawbacks of the Windows ClearType renderer, and the differences between PostScript and TrueType outlines. A must read.
Type design firm Underware’s bold and beautiful new wordmark for Tahoe South. Love.
A stunning, fan-made opening title sequence for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, created and composited by Doğan Can Gündoğdu. /via Nice Type
FontShop’s best typefaces of 2011 have been announced:
To celebrate the end of another exciting year in type, our type experts put their heads together to compile our annual “Best Of” list, highlighting the typefaces that surprised, impressed, and delighted us.
Some nice picks, I’m a big fan of TypeTogether’s Abril which was lauded as a “Modern Romance”.
Saul Bass’ brilliant opening titles for Grand Prix (1966).
