Nick Shinn’s lovely meditation on the world’s most ubiquitous font on Typographica, shows just how versatile Helvetica is. In 1957 when Max Miedinger designed Haas-Grotesk, renamed Helvetica three years later, did he have any idea just how successful the font he created would become? Link.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 26th of January 2006 Permalink
From what I can make out this started as a child’s hand drawn, grammatically error-strewn poster for his missing frog but has spawned a succession of parodies and photoshopped speculation as to the fate of Hopkin Green Frog. I’m torn between being entertained by the efforts of the website and feeling heartbroken for the boy’s loss. Click on each image to see the next.Link.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Friday, 20th of January 2006 Permalink
The Wurst Gallery commissioned artists to find a piece of framed art at their local thrift store and transform it into a piece of their own. The Wurst, an online gallery set up by Oregon-based Jason Sturgill offers each piece up in a ‘before and after’ fashion together with a Q&A from each artist. Link
Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 12th of January 2006 Permalink
We are having what in NYC parlance is called a stoop sale this weekend. Here’s the invite David designed for it. (Please note the lovely Schwinn Stingrays for sale and the Atari…) But it’s hard moving, getting rid of stuff, though it does lend itself to creative activity. I myself will be making cookies and cake but that’s not the sort of creativity I mean. Keira Alexander, creative director at the Sundance Channel in NY, decided to change her life and leave her flat and sell off all her amazing collected possessions. She and David Brown (not the one who blogs for 30 gms) made a book called “Everything Must Go,” documenting it. (It’s available from very cool self publishing website lulu.com.) Other book suggestions I’ve heard about include giving your unwanted stuff to a charity shop, but with the things you desperately want to keep, take a picture of them and write down their stories—when you got the items and why they’re important to you. Then turn it into a book. Indeed, our cultural consumption can be good to get rid of things and make more things.
Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Wednesday, 11th of January 2006 Permalink
There’s that book, and now there’s the Flickr set to match, with some digital examples that surpass the printed. Why not add your own? Link
Gary Butcher
Posted on Friday, 6th of January 2006 Permalink