Wednesday, May 16, 2012

3. PLASTER Festival



The third edition of International Festival of Poster and Typography PLASTER 3 is dedicated to issues concerning cultural and artistic relations between Polish and Belarusian graphic design. Despite the geographic proximity and strong historical connotations between both countries, the question of mutual references in the field of widely understood design seems to be still little penetrated. The Festival is going to cause symmetrical actions – we will see the art of Polish and Belarusian designers in equal proportions.

The opening of the Festival – on the 23rd of May (7 p.m.) - will be accompanied by vernissages of four exhibitions. On the CoCA's ground floor we will have an opportunity to see an exposition of prominent Polish poster designer Lech Majewski who, in a very individual style, presents relation that exists between graphic form and manually prepared typography. After the opening, in the space of Kino Centrum, at 8 p.m. will take place a meeting with the Artist.
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Monday, April 2, 2012

typeconnection























A pretty cool typographic match game, made with much attention to detail: typeconnection

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Chrono

Chrono by Process is another addition to the range Recta/Neuzeit-esque faces, including Calibre by KLIM, Graphik by Christian Schwartz and digitized Recta itself, by CanadaType, to name a few. Eric Olson's vision is DINified a bit, and it's good to have alternatives, right?

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Kontrapunkt Bob

Kontrapunkt, the danish guys behind award-winning free Kontrapunkt typeface, have released a nice slab serif in two weights, for free. Test and download here

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Origins of popular typefaces



Download the overview as a PDF here (and ignore the terribly written article, wrong typeface names, Times New Roman classified as a Sans Serif, come on)