Emily Davidow » typography http://www.emilydavidow.com/wp design, technology, culture and nature Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:27:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pancake Lettering http://www.emilydavidow.com/wp/2009/10/pancake-lettering/ http://www.emilydavidow.com/wp/2009/10/pancake-lettering/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:54:33 +0000 Emily http://www.emilydavidow.com/wp/?p=1416 Three great obsessions taste even better together: pancakes, lettering and photographing your food!

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Last weekend I stumbled on Helvetiki, this witty marriage of the ubiquitous hei-tiki of New Zealand and Helvetica of the world by Matthew Moriarty at Crawlspace gallery. Created in 2007, the 50th anniversary of the type face Helvetica and the release year of the Helvetica film that looks at the larger conversation about the way type affects our lives, Helvetiki had me wondering what is New Zealand type?

I could point you to the magnificent type specimens from Kris Sowersby and Joseph Churchward, and note that New Zealand type often looks like it’s subtly growing, organic, alive, like koru unfolding. And I’m excited to learn more at the Printing Types: New Zealand Type Design since 1870 exhibition (at Objectspace in Auckland 25 July – 12 September 2009) curated by Jonty Valentine to “remedy the invisibility of type in New Zealand,” featuring work by Joseph Churchward, Robert Coupland Harding, Tom Elliott, Mark Geard, Maarten Ideema, Narrow Gauge, Warren Olds, Bruce Rotherham, Shabnam Shiwan, Kris Sowersby, Luke Wood, and Jack Yan.

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Furniture Typeface by Cody Haltom, created for High Fashion Home in Houston.

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  • studio libertiny - honeycomb vase - made by bees. concept by Tomás Gabzdil Libertini
    Design and the Elastic Mind – New York Times Review
    “Design and the Elastic Mind,” an exhilarating new show opening on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, makes the case that through the mechanism of design, scientific advances of the last decade have at least opened the way to unexpected visual pleasures. Features “Honeycomb Vase” made by 40,000 bees and Tomás Gabzdil Libertini through a process of “slow prototyping,” Front Design’s Sketch furniture, and Joris Laarman’s bone furniture. More images from the show.
    (tags: moma art patterns scale nano informationvisualization technology)
  • Gotham » A Font We Can Believe In
    obamasquare.jpgObama’s main “change” banner font is Gotham, designed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones for GQ to be something that would look fresh, yet established, to have a credible voice to it. It also needed to look very masculine and “of-the-moment.” Mission accomplished.
    (tags: typography politics obama gotham fonts typeface)
  • Endemic – New Zealand Design Store
    Online outpost of Devonport, Auckland, NZ based Endemic, devoted to artist and designer made fashion, publications, art toys and a wide range of playful imaginings. (Looks like physical store opened right after I visited this wonderful area — will have to go back.)
    (tags: playful design creative shopping newzealand endemic artbooks)
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  • FF Polymorph directionsPolymorphous Perversity
    I can’t help getting excited about FF Polymorph. This new typeface family by Stefanie Schwarz is inspired by characters from languages around the world. It morphs into 4 styles: decoration, serif, loop and interrupution and also 4 directions: north, south, east, west. Check out also detailed PDF of features and possibilities of Polymorph.
    (tags: fonts typeface design global typography)
  • NYT: Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain
    THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation. Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls.
    (tags: culture gender internet socialnetworking tech web girls women computers)
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