Kyle Jones just released another hit with Haäfe & Haph, a set of gorgeous ampersands, not to mention a really lovely site to display them all.
Provided in EPS and Opentype formats for $10. Simply beautiful.
Ollie, now for sale.
Brooklyn-based illustrator, typographer and designer Jessica Hische has launched a store as part of her new site, where you can purchase her printed works including this type specimen sheet for the Daily Drop Cap project. Want!
Edit: Jessica also has one of the most in-depth Q&A pages I’ve ever seen, under the sweet title of “overshares”.
Big news overnight is the launch of Square, a mobile app supporting multiple devices that enables anyone to take credit card transactions without the hassle of merchant accounts or complicated fee structures. It’s the brainchild of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey and with the likes of Buzz Andersen involved, it’s going to be huge. Impeccable website design by Bobby Andersen.
As pointed out in the notes by Max Wheeler and Lachlan Hardy, part of the solution is a physical card reader mechanism that sends magnetic data from a credit card to a supported device through its audio input jack, generating the power to do so from the swiping motion. Clever.
Anna and Nathan Bond’s boutique stationery company now has an online store offering cards, prints, paper goods and — soon — invitations (plus very nice use of widely-spaced Futura).
Just when I thought the scrapbook design meme was played out, MetaLab’s Sara White produces what may be the definitive theme of its type for Tumblr, Vintage Scrapbook. It’s a paid theme via Envato’s Theme Forest, but at $12 — and with MetaLab’s customary attention to every single detail — it’s a steal. I’d love to see an option in Tumblr’s Theme Garden for designers to offer paid themes, perhaps with a revenue split akin to the App Store.
The Art of Tim Burton, a 434-page tome packed with more than 1,000 drawings, doodles, paintings and evocative concept art dating back to Burton’s teen years. Packaged in both limited-edition lithograph ($300) and standard hardcover ($70) versions.
This might make up for just missing the exhibition at MOMA. But I’ll wait till the book arrives on Amazon, as shipping from Steeles Publishing to New Zealand is more than twice the price of the standard edition, at US$145. Ouch.
“Untitled 2008” by Elizabeth Weinberg, an editor’s pick on Print Society, the new site showcasing the best prints for sale online, from the creators of t-shirt emporium Rumplo. Update: the photo is now correctly attributed.
SongParts
A new venture from You Look Nice Today: buy just the best parts of songs for a fraction of the US$0.99 pricetag. Gold. And taking submissions now. (via Adam Lisagor)
Because old business models won’t change, eMusic now looks broken by the very people who deemed it in need of protection. I suppose I’ll hang on till next month, collect my sorry-about-this bonus, and then cancel.
— From Russell Brown’s backgrounder on eMusic’s new pricing regime, from an Australasian perspective. Short story: so it can deliver Sony’s back catalogue to the US, Canada and the EU, eMusic has roughly doubled the price of its tracks, leaving users outside those territories subsidising a product they can’t buy. I’ll stay for a bit to see how it pans out, but this does not look like a particularly fair deal.
