Hasta La Creative!

Good friend Alex Haigh, A.K.A. Thinkdust finally dropped a personal project that’s been in the making for quite some time now.

HypeForType is a digital type foundry featuring typefaces made by some of the hottest artists and designers out there. Names such as Alex Trochut, Si Scott and Jon Burgerman are only a few of the giants in the line-up.

The idea, the approach, the website, everything’s top quality and sure to cause a buzz in the upcoming days.

Be sure to drop by and get yourself some type goodness.

Basée à Helsinki en Finlande, Janine Rewell est une illustratrice freelance depuis 2006 représentée par l’agence de talents Pekka. Elle réalise packagings, couvertures de livres et posters. Son style combine formes géométriques vectorielles avec de petits sous-ensembles de décoration.

La liste de ses travaux est longue, découvrez-le sur son portfolio

I’ve just updated my portfolio with 6 new works among which I include a font that is free to download.

Halfway is a font I’ve developed from the idea of reducing characters while maintaining their meaning. It’s still a 1.0 version, so there may be some updates done to it in the future or I might release a rounded version I’m working on.

The font is still under an Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons license, so you can use it for personal projects while giving credit to its author, and for commercial projects you have to ask for my permission.

Within the zip file you’ll find all three weights (Normal, Bold and Black) in TrueType (TTF) and OpenType (OTF) versions to use in PC and Mac.

You can download it directly through here: Halfway; or from the portfolio.

Hope you like the update and any comments you may have please don’t hesitate to contact me or leave a comment.

I had to post this. Star Wars credits as if they were made by Saul Bass.
 
Superb.
 
Via: Vecindad Gráfica.

I hadn’t realized I hadn’t posted anything about Helvetica: The Film, the movie about Helvetica, the typography.
 
I heard of it being made over a year ago, and since then I’ve been eagorly waiting to see it.
 
In the end the veredict is only one: It was worth the wait.
 
The documentary is excellent. Its editing is exceptional, the interviewed amazing, and the typography a modern classic.
 
From the testimonies of design geniuses such as Massimo Vignelli, Matthew Carter, David Carson, Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister and Eric Spiekermann among various others, Helvetica: The Film is a first class visual testimony that should without a doubt be seen by every graphic designer around the world. In fact I believe it should be being showcased in all design schools all over the globe. So if there happens to be any school directors passing by here, please try to show it. Your students will be grateful.
 
The best of all the documentary, in my opinion, is that it really manages to give Helvetica its well deserved protagonism, but at the same time gives an enormous amount of life advice, first to graphic designers, but really to any person who watches it.
 
This isn’t only a documentary about a typeface. It’s a graphic design guide written by the beautiful Helvetica.
 
And of course, not to leave you hanging. Here’s the full documentary.