Freaky Friday 02

The black and white issue… almost

It’s been a busy week so there weren’t any updates in the last few days, however I have been making small notes over the week so that this issue of Freaky Friday would have some content.

 — | Font fetish | — 

Incognito and Requiem have some new competition for being some of my favorite fonts. Affair has just been released by Veer and hot-diggity it looks mighty tempting.

 — | DRAWing on the range | — 

Mac56 of Ranger Bastards (site currently down) from Indonesia has posted a few sweet-looking illustrations on the Graphics.com forums. He uses CorelDRAW of all things. You can view his first posting here, and his follow-up posting here. Lots of good stuff.

 — | Gelukkige Verjaardag! | — 

Today is Peter Bruhn’s birthday. Peter is the man in the one-man swedish type foundry known as Fountain. Fountain produces some top-notch quality fonts for a very economical price, and you can tell that he loves what he does whether it’s owning (and showing off) an original signed type speciman book from Frederic Goudy or creating a funky font after returning from a concert, it’s great stuff. (Fountain is another foundry that is distributing one of those typefaces I lust over, Incognito, designed by Gábor Kóthay.)

 — | Calendar niceties | — 

In case you’re tired of your current calendar already, FontShop has a great little thing that they do. Each month they put out a calendar that you can print out yourself (at 11x17), as well as a desktop, featuring some of their more popular typefaces.

 — | Caps & No Caps | — 

For those who are familiar with Upper & Lowercase Magazine, you may be interested in hearing that U&lc is not only not being printed anymore (their last issue was published in the summer of 1999), but U&lc Online also no longer has its own domain. If you’ve been looking for it, you can now find U&lc Online on International Typeface Corporation’s (ITC) website.

The nature of the type world keeps changing. And any online publication is, by definition, about change. U&lc Online began life as an online companion to U&lc, ITC’s award-winning magazine; from here on in, it will begin a new life, in a new format, as ITC’s online voice. Expect the unexpected.

Incidentally, if you’re looking for an archive of the printed issues, you can purchase a hardcover book of selected covers, stories, and illustrations called U&lc: Influencing Design & Typography from Veer’s Merch store.

 — | Design is Business | — 

I love it when graphic design gets exposure in the “civilian” world, and even more so when it gets recognized in the business world. BusinessWeek Online as a neat little write up on the influence of Milton Glaser’s work in the world of New York, as well as a little background history on the man himself.

My only complaint regarding the article:

At a recent book signing, says Elizabeth Lupton, a curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, young people crowded around Glaser, wanting “to touch genius.” Yet Glaser can’t claim to truly speak their language. He loves computers but worries that they narrow creativity, which thrives on ambiguity, fuzziness, and the borders between ideas. Computers, he explains, are all about clarity and defined boundaries. Even now, boundaries beckon to Glaser to come and break them down.

Okay, it’s Ellen Lupton, not Elizabeth Lupton.