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I really liked the first albums of Kanye West but since Late Registration all his stuff somehow became dull. At least he proves taste in visual appearance of his latest video by comissioning So Me to help him out stylewise.



So Me is typically known as Ed Banger's chief Art Director ensuring an all over look. Every album, every single and the music videos published by the french dance music label features So Me's colourful type treatments, as well as Justice's D.A.N.C.E.

Look ma! I got in second... quite a few weeks gone though, but still.

See the mighty Anchorman in action and judge yourself.
Jonathan Puckey helped me a lot to finalize the script and actually made it a lot more user friendly. Now the script works as intended, no errors and a lot of fun visualizing anchors, handlerpoints as well as handlers.

Posters will be added soon.

Flickr Set of Crouwel Exhibition in Paris beginning of this month.

This is a hard one. I'm working on my type project this semester. I threw things away a lot of approaches even more sketches and even started once all over again. Right now I'm working on kind of an exploration on Lucas de Groot's interpolation theory. It's actually quite fun from time to time!

Today I read an article on Fontblog and this one made me think again. I'm not close to restart everything I worked on but it leaves me here with a feeling of slightly futile work.

The idea of Superpolator is quite interesting. Take 4 fonts (well not fonts but rather vektors of glyphs) to define a designspace. Within this space Leterror's software gives you the chance to define points within this space to generate new forms (video).
Nice toy? I think it could be a huge timesaver and I lost motivation to continue today. Thank's Letterror ;)

I have some sketches of another approach here. Maybe I should start all over… again!

A movie spanning the history of type! Perfect material for a lazy student like me, and perfect for my project right now. Since it's a bit vague, I'll drop some info/ progression bout it later.

Movie by danish typesetting company Purup (Esco)
via Fontblog

Hui, wenn ich mir das anschau, dann frag ich mich, wieso ich selbst vorher nie auf die Idee kam. Der vielleicht meistgehasste Font, hat echt Potential!
Die Comic Sans wurde 1994 von Vincent Connare bei Microsoft entwickelt und ist frei für andere Systeme lizensiert. Sie wird wegen ihrer handschriftlichkeit gerne von VHS-Kursen, Kindergärten und Fahrschulen genommen;) Ich hab mich allerdings noch nie gefragt wieso sie so schrecklich ist. Nach der Überarbeitung von Jan Pieter Chielsen frag ich mich auch wie man eigentlich das grundsätzliche Potential übersehen konnte. Hinter der Hackfresse steckt ja ne schöne Type!

One of the loveliest characters concerning type is the ampersand. I remember drawing it over and over again when i was young just to figure it's exact appearance out. Though it didn't help to develop any mentionable skills, the love for it's form remains.
Check out this Poster celebrating the Ampersand. And have a look at these Making-Of Flickr-Sets.
Conor & David did it!

B.t.w I'm still alive, still breathing, but currently far too much office air.

Gamer Theory ist ein Webbuch über Spiele, Computerspiele, um genau zu sein. Allerdings keine einfache Adaption eines echten Buches à la PDF File zum Downloaden, wie eigentlich alle eBooks aussehen. Die Seiten lassen sich kommentieren, die Kapitel sind Deeplinked… Wie auch immer, das Buch ist ein Projekt des Institute for the Future of the Book. Etwas für Schnittstelleninteressierte.