seen in HOWPerfect for type geeks—the serif tote bag from Little Company. Makes me smile.
Visit their site here.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Serif Tote
seen in HOWPerfect for type geeks—the serif tote bag from Little Company. Makes me smile.
Visit their site here.
Type and Music
via The FontShop FontFeedAlways a good read, Yves Peters writes about type treatments on the covers of recent releases in his My Type of Music posts.
Read the rest here.
Producing a book, the analog way
via boingboing
A nostalgic look at what a it took to produce a book in the era before digital typesetting and printing.
A nostalgic look at what a it took to produce a book in the era before digital typesetting and printing.
Variations on a Theme
They have no idea who I am since they do not get my name correct; all they know is that this is a “valid mailing address.” [Oh, the things that one learns working in a print and mailing facility.] What becomes even more interesting is when your misspelled name is sold to a list, and suddenly there are mailings from multiple companies that bought that particular list. It is almost viral, since lists are constantly complied, bought, and sold by companies trying to capture segments of a specific marketing demographic.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Business Cards: Page VII
For the most part, the designs of the cards on this page utilize the white space very well — lots of breathing room around the logos and type treatments.Two nice ampersands found on the Fish & DiRocco [why a swan image?] and Patz & Hall cards.
I've always loved the T.C. Lynch card [top row, middle]; great use of a perfect green spot color on the leaves. The illustration reminds my of an old woodcut design.
Ghosting: Mechanical Ghosts
via printersting
“A printing ghost is an unwanted image resulting from the printing system itself. There are basically two kinds: mechanical and chemical. Mechanical ghosts are usually visible as soon as the press sheet lands in the delivery section of the press. There are three types of mechanical ghosts: starvation, blanket, and plate.”
Read the rest of the post here. Part Two on Chemical Ghosts can be found here.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Highland Hall Moon Tree
This afternoon we decided to get out of the house for a bit, and go see if we could find the Moon sycamore tree in Hollidaysburg. It was sunny outside, but very windy when we located Highland Hall.
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| Highland Hall, now shuttered with a large “For Lease” sign on the property. |
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| Our camera was set-up on what was the base of the “Pioneer Family” statue. |
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| The Moon sycamore, now 35 years old, looks to be healthy. |
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| Base of the “Pioneer Family” statue on the left and Moon sycamore on the right. We discovered a trashy little geocache tucked under one corner of the base as we were leaving. Driving out of town to our next stop on our trip, we discovered where the statue has been moved to outside the court house, just a few blocks away from Highland Hall. |
American Ballet Theatre swings into action for London students
via YouTube“The American Ballet Theatre and U.S. Embassy London invited students from across London to watch them rehearse for their UK performances. Afterwards some of the students got to participate in a question and answer session with members of the production.”
Watch it here. Screen capture of my son, Arron Scott, in Tico Tico from Paul Taylor’s Company B.
The Mystery of the Missing Moon Trees
via wired
“15 years after NASA astronomer David Williams started searching for them, hundreds of trees grown from space-faring seeds are still missing. The moon trees, whose seeds circled the moon 34 times in Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa’s pocket, were welcomed back to Earth with great fanfare in 1971. One was planted in Washington Square in Philadelphia as part of the 1975 bicentennial celebrations. Another took root at the White House. Several found homes at state capitals and space-related sites around the country. Then-president Gerald Ford called the trees ‘living symbol[s] of our spectacular human and scientific achievements.’ And then, mysteriously, everyone seemed to forget about them.”
Read the rest here, visit his site here. Fascinating; a moon tree is less than an hour away in Hollidaysburg, PA.What is the Financial Times and Why is it Pink?
via the financial timesThe Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 23 cities around the world. Its primary rival is New York City-based The Wall Street Journal. Since 1893, the Financial Times has used its distinctive salmon-pink newsprint as a distinguishing trademark to set itself apart from other daily news publications.
Friday, February 18, 2011
James Taylor
via james taylorWatch footage from James Taylor’s December 2010, BBC Interview from the Barn as part of The Lennon Legacy. If you want to cut to his intimate solo performance of his favorite Lennon tune In My Life, you can skip to: 28:47. Watch it here. This song is one of my favorites as well. It was quite moving hearing this Beatle’s song played at a memorial service a few years ago for a fellow graphic designer who died quite suddenly. The acoustics in the spiritual center were perfect that day as I sat listening among friends and aquaintances gathered that day.
James Taylor: I Met Lennon's Assassin
Singer-songwriter James Taylor tells BBC’s Tom Brook that he was accosted by Mark David Chapman the day before John Lennon’s murder. Watch the interview here.
You can also see James Taylor’s performance of Let It Be honoring Sir Paul McCartney at the Kennedy Center Honors. Among the many artists joining him for the evening’s finale were Mavis Staples and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Watch it here.
Full Moon
Midget & Giant
via swissmiss“Ryuji Nakamura created this miniature paper model house to sit ontop of his iMac, in front of the iSight webcam. It transforms a webcam view into something straight of out of Alice in Wonderland. How can this not make you smile?”
Making Handmade Books
via feltandwire
“For those of you interested in bookmaking, you might want to pick up Alisa Golden’s Making Handmade Books. This comprehensive guide has instructions for the novice and professional. The book features 100 different types of bindings/structures, including folded books, glued books, accordion books and a lot of variations on each book type.”Read the rest of the post here.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Black History Month: Interview with Roy Eaton
via creativity online
Geoff Edwards, co-founder of DOJO, interviews one of the first ever African American creatives Roy Eaton. Eaton wrote the campaign line for Texaco: “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star,” Advertising Age named that Texaco jingle from 1962 as the foundation for one of the twentieth century’s top 100 creative campaigns.
Read the rest here, and visit his web site here.
Daily Drop Cap: Black Treacle E
via dailydropcap
yecatching. . . .Alison Carmichael’s drop cap has the perfect amount of whimsey and playfulness—she works in a multitude of styles and mediums for her lettering, including ketchup and black treacle.
More daily drop caps can be found here.
yecatching. . . .Alison Carmichael’s drop cap has the perfect amount of whimsey and playfulness—she works in a multitude of styles and mediums for her lettering, including ketchup and black treacle.More daily drop caps can be found here.
Business Cards: Page VI
Gandhi’s Words in His Own Type
via @Issue Journal of Business & Design“Leo Burnett India ad agency commemorated the 141st anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth (October 2, 2010) by creating an alphabetical font in the Devanagari script in the style of Gandhi’s trademark wireframe eyeglasses. The special typeface was the brainchild of Burnett’s national creative director KV ‘Pops’ Sridhar, who wanted to inspire younger generations with the teachings of Gandhi. The glasses symbolize Gandhi’s vision and his visionary thoughts on truth and nonviolence. Sridhar explains, ‘The way he saw the world is completely different than the way we do – and hence the glasses, to subtly nudge people into thinking like him again.’ Gandhi had originally given the glasses in the 1930s to an Indian army colonel who had asked the great leader for inspiration. Gandhi reportedly gave him his glasses and said, ‘These gave me the vision to free India.’ ”
Read the rest here.
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