So you need a typeface…

deck
playing with type
playing cards

via STEEZ LUIS

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BLOG: http://friendsoftype.com/

a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue of type.

4:02 pm • 16 December 2009 • Comments

Does someone in your studio use one of these typefaces? Does it make your typographically sensitive skin crawl? You can help. Order this poster and make your hack designing colleague take this pledge and sign it.

Jeff Matz Designer/Principal of Lure Design created this last week for a screen printing presentation at “Pull + Ink” Art Center of South Florida, South Beach for AIGA Miami. They were such a big hit – they decided to put them up for sale!

Via: Swiss Miss

12:57 am • 11 November 2009 • Comments

Lubalin Now

Cooper Union is exhibiting one of my favorite designers/art directors/typographers, Herb Lubalin. He designed two of my favorite typefaces: Avant Garde (which is used in the aesthetic206 image to your left) and Lubalin Graph, a serif version. He art directed the progressive magazine, Avant Garde (1968-1971), which was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language. To my luck, I found an early issue of it at this used book store on Queen Anne not too long ago! I wasn’t even aware that Lubalin had a Study Center named after him, and I think it is well deserved. I am SO tempted to go to NYC just to attend the opening reception!

Here are a sample of posters that will be exhibited there: