ARCHIVE July, 2009

Good news for magazines

October 24, 2009

The Magazine Publishers of America put out this video and campaign “The Twenty Tweetable Truths About Magazines” at last week’s  Magazine Innovation Summit, encouraging the print based industry with recent good news. Check it out:

I found this on Font Feed where Yves Peters was also encouraged, but pointed out (via Amanda Ernst on FishbowlNY) [...]

AIGA Make/Think notes

October 17, 2009

The AIGA Voice blog gives an update from the recent Make/Think Conference in Memphis with sketches from designer Carolyn Sewell’s notebook. Love it. Here are a few of her pages, and the full entry on the blog.

With heros like Steven Sagmister and Jim Sherraden from Hatch Show Print that were at this conference, I kick [...]

Where the Wild [hand drawn fonts] Are

October 15, 2009

I simply can not wait to see Where the Wild Things Are. The trailer looks amazing, perhaps even more amazing than that beautiful type hand drawn by Geoff Mcfetridge (ht PicoCool for the source!) that succeeds in capturing the mood.

I love this movie poster too – the use of scale here is fantastic.