Here’s To The Crazy Ones.
Atipo is a Spanish design studio from Gijón which created an interesting series of posters dedicated to four typographical designers. For this great work they combined facial expressions and black-and-white make-up interpreting Caslon Italic, Clarendon Bold, Helvetica Bold and Carousel Medium.
Great poster design for the annual exibition. Stunning typography and color scheme, had to post this. Love it.
The history of Gill Sans stems from Edward Johnston’s iconic typeface, Johnston Sans, designed for the London Underground in 1913. Eric Gill, who had studied under Johnston at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts, later became a friend and apprentice—and even had a small role assisting in creation of the proprietary typeface.
Today over two dozen Gill Sans designs are available digitally, with mainstream reach thanks to its inclusion on Mac OS X and Microsoft Office. It can be seen everywhere, used on everything from corporate logos to movie posters. These include brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, United Colors of Benetton, the BBC and eHarmony.
Last week my inbox popped with an invitation to the preview of Typekit, a technology platform that hosts both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM. After setting up an account and looking around, I realized that I would not be able to use it until I set up another blog platform, or until Posterous enabled JavaScript.
Anyways, recently there have been a few blogs that have been giving away invites to Typekit in the form of a contest. Here is where I come in. I have 5 invites. If you want one please just leave a comment with your email (I will delete your comment once ive sent an invite). Or @reply me. (no contests, first come first serve.)
