- ARCHIVE / Interviews
- An arresting development.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Above: From the Star Tribune’s photo series from last night (Sept.4, 2008). That’s me on the left with my old black messenger bag. (Thanks to K for finding this.)
As it happens, a friend and I were caught between two opposing sides last night and were arrested while we were trying to return to [...]
- Guardian / Polish Posters
Film Poster History and Analysis
Above: From the Guardian, a welcome review by Paul Rennie on the history of the Polish film poster. With Poland playing an awkward role in the renewal of archaic Cold War tensions and games, the irony of this history of state-sponsored design is striking.
Tangentially, it is also interesting to note this [...] - Fifty Seven Even
Wayfaring designer strikes gold, son.
Above: The man himself, Seven Even of Gold Rush Studio. LA based fine artist, multidisciplinary designer, consultant. Currently working in advertising, fashion design, and brand strategy while exploring the role of graphics as a cultural barometer.
Above: An overview. KDU Member Feature.
Above: Some detail. More at Gold Rush Studio.
- Apropo aluminum cans…
Coke adds life.
Above: From a pack of Coca-Cola in Minneapolis. Chris Jordan’s latest reminded me of a lost text pic from Lathrop and these cross-cultural messages (tied to a mono-culture product), from Coca-Cola’s latest campaign. The can on the left is from Thailand, and, on the right, Ethiopia. The cans on the inside? All from [...]
- Bernard Canniffe / USA-UAE
Graphic Design Students Engage in a “Social/Cultural Intervention.”
Above: Process board from an ongoing exchange in Dubai between MICA (Baltimore) and students from Zayed University. The project involves a collaboration between students and faculty led by Bernard Canniffe (MICA), Dr. Nanci Takeyama (GD Instructor from Zayed University) and Peter Chomowicz (Env. Design Chair MICA). Bernard describes [...]
- Aftonbladet
Stockholm, Sweden
Above: Your columns got you down? Good medicine for a bad type day,
one can always rely on some pulse-raising zeug from the Aftonbladet.
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- Free Radicals Still Swim
Above: From a helmet-cam sequence by messenger/director Lucas Brunelle, a new version with a great track from Überdose (ignore the paint filter/slo-mo moment…)! The original footage is a true welcome to the jungle (and includes a priceless one-hit at the beginning), and makes me think of twenty years ago today…
DC Messengers were not so [...] - Jean-Benoît Lévy / Helvetia + 10,700
Guiness World Record
Above: Jean-Benoît Lévy, from Studio AND, a Guiness World Record video short of a human scaled, 10,700 participants, version of Jean-Benoît’s Helvetia stamp (below). See more of his stamps here, and click here for an interview with this
San Francisco based designer. - Jenny Tondera / Wim Crouwel
Above: Wim Crouwel’s “New Alphabet” typeface, 1967.
Tondera / Crouwel
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset,
Steven Heller, Paula Scher, Ellen Lupton, and Jessica Helfand.Jenny Tondera writes: Dutch designer Wim Crouwel (born 1928) is one of my favorite designers of all [...]
- Jenny Tondera / Jessica Helfand
Above: Cover of Jessica Helfand’s book Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002).
Tondera / Helfand
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset,
Steven Heller, Paula Scher, and Ellen Lupton.
Jenny Tondera writes: It was so heartwarming to receive such an inspirational, [...] - Jenny Tondera / Ellen Lupton
Above: The cover of “The ABC’s of Bauhaus, The Bauhaus and Design Theory” edited by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller. Princeton Architectural Press, 2000.
Tondera / Lupton
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut,
Experimental Jetset, Steven Heller, and Paula Scher.Jenny Tondera writes: [...]
- PEN World Voices / Rattapallax
International Film Feast in NYC, April 29
Above: A flyer front I designed recently for Ram Devineni, Rattapallax Editor and Founder. Images, from top to bottom, are stills from two featured films, Unfed by Jason Lam, and Some Days, by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. (See his film below.)
The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film [...] - Jenny Tondera / Paula Scher
Above: Paula Scher’s Citibank.
Tondera / Scher
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut,
Experimental Jetset, and Steven Heller.
Jenny Tondera writes: I was first introduced to Paula Scher’s work at age 16 when I was a student at a pre-college program at MCAD. My instructor showed [...] - Jenny Tondera / Steven Heller
Above: Cover of “Paul Rand” by Steven Heller. Design by Hans Dieter Reichert.
Tondera / Heller
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut,
and Experimental Jetset.
Jenny Tondera writes: Known more for his art direction at The New York Times and his design criticism within publications [...] - Jenny Tondera / Michael Bierut
Above: A poster by Michael Bierut for the
Yale School of Architecture.
Tondera / Bierut
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interview with Experimental Jetset here.
Jenny Tondera writes: Omnipresent in our current design culture, designer and design critic Michael Bierut works at Pentagram, is an editor of Design Observer, [...] - Jenny Tondera / Experimental Jetset
Above: Experimental Jetset poster for the Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Holland.
- Jenny Tondera on Jenny Tondera
Geotypografika welcomes a fabulous new contributor.
Above: Grafik Gung Fu student Jenny surfaces at last.
Jenny Tondera writes: Hello! My name is Jenny and I’m in my sophomore year studying graphic design at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design). I am currently working on an exciting project that I’d like to share with all of you!
This [...] - Apple Daily / Taiwan Edition
Today’s front page is from Taipei, Taiwan
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- Part DOS: Four Writing Systems and a Microphone
Part Two: Asahi Shimbun front page from February 4, 2008.
Geotypografika Kommentario: What follows is a continuation of a first posting,
Part UNO: United Nations/Nations Unies?
La Futura? Form can help create function, it does not simply have to follow.
Typographic and graphic problems as metaphor for troubled and complex world organizational issues? Ja, warum denn nicht? Type is [...] - The West Australian
Today’s front page is from Perth, Australia
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- Geotypografika Interview 005: Verena Gerlach
Berlin (Type) Designer / Educator
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Verena Gerlach
(Type) Designer / Educator
Berlin, Germany
Geotypografika Interview 005 Verena Gerlach
What developments are you following in the world of graphic
design/typography today?
VG Technical: I’m fascinated by the possibilities of the still young OpenType technology. My next font (FF Chambers Sans) design will provide a lot of OpenType features. Design: The [...] - Shinnoske Inc. / Shinnoske Sugisaki
Graphic Designer / Osaka, Japan
Above: Shinnoske Sugisaki, from his current exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. These will immediately remind you of Basel and Weingart.
Above: Shinnoske Sugisaki, from his current exhibition in Hamburg, Germany.
Above: From his recent Anonyma Exhibition. I love the contrast to the living visual environment just outside the hall, typical. Urban density equals typographic [...]
- Geotypografika Interview 004: James Bertoni
Graphic Designer, San Francisco
James Bertoni, Graphic Designer
San Francisco, CA Estados Unidos001 Portfolio
Geotypografika Interview 004 James Bertoni
What developments are you following in the world of graphic
design/typography today?
JB I am following the development of design as it relates to the online community.
What new developments are occurring specific to your location?
JB The new developments occurring specifically in my [...] - Sacre Vache / Ragnar Freyr Pálsson
From Iceland (via Michigan) with Love.
Athvarf Poster / Veggsjald
Litli Dímon og KvennaathvarfiðDauði trúðsins Book cover / Bókakápa JPV
Click here immediately, don’t read this. Well maybe just a little. I plan a much longer story, but the work speaks for itself.
An amazing collection of contemporary work by Ragnar Freyr Pálsson, an Icelandic designer currently working in [...] - Geotypografika is one month old.
Irashai! Welcome to the Backstube…
There is a test proof of the new poster on my homasote. The banner up top used to hang on our house in Bellefonte (we lived across the street from a little league baseball diamond). It worked. Type is Akzidenz Grotesk by the way. This? Well, I am Arial, pleasure to [...]