Entries categorized as ‘Design’
I was complaining about the sudden ubiquity of Mrs. Eaves (really *pretty* serif typeface), and yes, it was one of those indie-snob complaints that might be better placed in HIgh Fidelity music-dork territory than font-dork territory.
And now –Zuzana Licko at Emigre brings us — MR. Eaves! He’s pretty too, but hopefully not so distinct that he stands out in a crowd. A strong, silent, slightly dickish Don Draper typeface.
Thanks for the head’s up Jim.
Do you have another opinion?
Title and endline credit: Pixies, Mr. Grieves (slightly bastardized)
Categories: Crushes · Design · Dorky · Fonts · Uncategorized
Back to school means metaphorical closet cleaning… Here are some links
This is helpful for an overall digital system reorganization- the numbering seems a little hard to find things by keyword… but otherwise nice and clean – yay Chris Griffin!
GD Forum has a few ideas. For project-based physical notes/ephemera I use clear letter-sized poly envelopes, and the transfer them to a client’s file folder when the project is finished. Still trying to figure out structures for digital filing.
Right now I use
_Local Design Work
and each client gets their own subfolder
_LocalDesignWork/local.client/
and then projects
_LocalDesignWork/local.client/projectA/
And you can see how this gets unwieldy. Quickly.
Anyone have any tips they want to share?
Title credit: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, White Corolla
Categories: Blogs · Design · Dorky · Editing
Goddamn it Mr. Coupland – does everything you touch turn to primary-coloured-gold?
The giant Downy bottle… the white miniature replica CN Tower… Mousetrap as sculpture, for chrissakes? Even your pizza box looks intentionally brilliant.
I’m almost as excited about your new book as I am about the Mad Men season 3 premiere.
Categories: Art · Can-lit · Canada · Canadian · Chairs · Crushes · Design · Editing · Novels · Pop culture · Summer of 2009 · books · border-crossing
The book design is DONE! Get your very own copy here:
How to Stylishly Fall From Grace on Amazon
Seems like the Frutiger vs. Bell Gothic debate started so so long ago –yes, these are the kinds of things that keep me up at night. Serif, slab serif, and so on.
Congratulations to Felicia on her first novel!
Title credit: Uncle Tupelo, The Long Cut
Categories: Design · books
Look what I designed!! Few more corrections to make, and it will be officially “in stock.”
This is my neighbour’s first novel, and I’m excited I had a chance to help her put the finishing touches on it.
Title credit: Fleet Foxes, Mykonos
Categories: Design · books
Register today!
The line-up is stellar. Take a workshop. Or five.
Title credit: Superchunk, Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)
Categories: Art · Art school · Artist's books · Design · Grad school · Photography · Rochester · Visual Studies Workshop · books · media
I have been posting in an awfully negative way, lately. Time to reread Franny & Zooey and humble myself, again, again.
Some positivisms, to get me through my distraction spell:
-I found my thesis starting point on Sunday and photographed the hell out of it. Probably won’t use those images (abandoned buildings… so so done) but seeing that font, that Labelon sign above the door, made me chest skip a few. I’m a scavenger at heart.
- a friend of mine recently sold a book of his to the Library of Congress — pretty cool and a way bigger deal than he and his brilliant wife (who is also making her mark all over the map) are makin it out to be…oh, modesty. Will post links and stuff once it is official, or at least announced on his online message board.
- the Monroe branch of the library has Dexter AND Mad Men on dvd! AND 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould… bring on the summertime lazy movie watchin…
- afterimage 37.1 is *almost* done. And I’m sneaking in some new design stuff… we’ll see if it lasts the proofing stage…
See? I don’t have to stomp all over everything I find.
‘If you want me, honey baby,
I’ll be here.’
(been stuck in my head since Sunday)
Title credit: Bob Dylan, Buckets of Rain
Categories: 2009 · Art school · Beards · Blogs · Design · Films · Grad school · Ideas · Mapping · Movies · Notes to self · Novels · Photography · Thesis! · books · library
Unnecess. short forms make me laugh. So do t-shirts that scream: ‘Obscure references make me cooler than you!’
Categories: Design · Dorky
