“Grown Ocean” by Fleet Foxes, from the cheerfully titled new album Helplessness Blues, out May 3rd. (via Darren Wood)
Richard Miller’s Westin Black is a great take on the friendly slab, by way of Cooper Black. It’s now available for desktop and web use from Fontspring, as part of a new collection of rounded faces that also includes Museo Sans Rounded and Proxima Nova Soft.
New from TK Type: Chartwell, a type family by Travis Kochel that employs OpenType ligatures to interpret and visualise numeric data as line, pie and bar graphs.
Just a few of the many alternate glyphs in Tomáš Brousil’s new Tabac Sans superfamily — a linear, humanist face that does double duty for both text and titles, with support for more than 40 languages.
New “Heroes and Villains” toy prototypes from Yum Yum London. The granny is genius. (via Jon Hicks)
Brandon Grotesque is a sans serif family of six weights plus matching italics, designed by Hannes von Döhren.
Influenced by the geometric-style sans serif faces that were popular during the 1920s and 30s, the fonts are based on geometric forms that have been optically corrected for better legibility. Brandon Grotesque has a functional look with a warm touch.
The regular weight is free through April 15. (via Jeffrey Zeldman)
Nathan Hickey’s video for “Buffalo”, the first single from The Phoenix Foundation’s forthcoming studio album of the same name, out at the end of this month. Band frontman Sam Scott:
It’s about a young lad who travels to an alternative hippy underwater universe (and a floating forest of enchanted wanderers…?) when he holds his breath. Which seems entirely appropriate companion to a song about a Buffalo who rumbles his way across the floor of the great Pacific ocean.
jQuery 1.4 Released
Highlights include siginificant performance improvements, per-property easing, better support for live events, and plenty of new methods (including a native delay()).
Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams, edited by Klaus Kemp and published by Gestalten, presents the career of the peerless industrial designer from concept to final product, with commentary placing the work in context. Available from Vitsoe and Amazon. (via Alex Cornell)
