Wondrous things happen at FontShop BeNeLux. You may remember from the FontPool project that FontShop has a swimming pool. Well, “had” to be precise, because two years ago it started leaking through a hole in the foil lining the inside of the pool. These days there is barely a large puddle of water left, amassing dead leaves. Somehow a mother duck chose this makeshift sanctuary to lay her eggs. Meet FontDuck and her family.
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Our fascination with the alphabet runs deep. I think it is our innate need to communicate that brings us to recognise character shapes in the world around us. This brings certain people to scour Google Earth for hours on end to find letter shapes in satellite images of the terrain. The most successful and beautiful so far is by Thomas de Bruin, who assembled a Google Earth alphabet of the Netherlands.
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There are currently over 100,000 applications available in the App Store. And every single one of those apps has an icon. Dutch art director Ine Reijnen scoured them all, assembling an alphabet made from app icons consisting of single letters, numbers, and related symbol. She is now inviting everyone to send in Appoems, poetry of maximum 16 characters set in her Apphabet.
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Letter A in white chocolate © Muffles
On the eve of Sinterklaas (the night of December 5th) countless children – and also quite a few adults – in The Netherlands receive the initial of their first name in the form of a chocolate letter as a gift. Back in 1991 these letters were the subject of a deliciously tongue-in-cheek presentation Gerard Unger at The Monotype Conference 1992 - Typographic Connections. I was wondering where this typically Dutch tradition originated and stumbled upon the wonderful resources chocoladeletter.net, home to the history of the chocolate letter, and Saint Nicholas Center, where one can discover the truth about Saint Nicholas.
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Some people will do the strangest things with type. Others will do so with food. And then there’s those who will do the strangest things combining type and food. Meet Clio Chaffardon – a 23 year old student at ésad in Amiens, France – who created Snack Type, custom versions of FF Quadraat Italic made of … Pringles?
:: U P D A T E D W I T H S P E C I M E N ::
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I went to Amsterdam Thursday to attend the presentation of Rijksoverheid Serif and Sans, the new type family by Peter Verheul. These new typefaces will be used by and for all 175 departments of the Dutch government. Their creation already received nationwide coverage, which is uncommon for a typeface. Because I only returned the next day, big boss Rudy asked me to stay at the Qbic Hotel and write a report on this peculiar hotel as well. Two birds in one stone so to speak.
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Writing the review of the spoof magazine covers for Dexter, the hit television series from Showtime, made me revisit its Emmy Award-winning opening credits. Just like the opening credits of that other show my wife and I like so much – Six Feet Under – it was created by the creative agency Digital Kitchen. When I went to their site to make the screenshots for this post, I noticed the typography had changed.
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Being acquainted with Janno Hahn is not unlike being Santa’s buddy sometimes. Once in a while he sends me a promotional piece they designed, and they’re invariably real treats. This time I received a kit to create your own string with paper letters.
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Re*Nascent’s Joost Korngold sent us the main end titles for Tony McNeal’s short movie Born That Way. The typographic animation was created within a very tight time frame, with unlimited creative freedom in return. It exclusively uses FF Bau, Christian Schwartz’s take on S&G Grotesk, the earliest direct ancestor of Helvetica. |
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When writing the latest episode of Screenfonts a couple of nights ago the television was on and a video caught my eye. Toe Jam is a recent track by Norman Cook’s new project The BPA (short for Brighton Port Authority) and the video by Keith Schofield is a riot.
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