Encore Sans / extreme sans

Encore Sans Pro // By parachute fonts
This is a brand new contemporary typeface by parachute, a perfect alternative to your overused classic sans. Encore Sans Pro does not pretend being different but it does claim its own personality. It is simple and stylish. Encore Sans Pro is a humanistic sans-serif which projects an image of reliability, authority and competence making it ideal for corporate applications. A functional typeface which combines utility with style. Its subtle round characteristics such as the slightly curved-in edges, create a distinctly contemporary look, blending effectively traditional with modern details. Encore Sans Pro is extremely versatile. It comes with 22 weights and supports simultaneously Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Each font contains 1518 glyphs and is loaded with 22 advanced opentype features. Extreme weights, such as the elegant hairline, are carefully designed to establish an even color throughout, while ultra black despite its heavy characteristics is quite legible and powerful. Other intermediate weights such as light and book are ideal as body text for magazines and catalogs.

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Selected work of 2008

This is selected work that I created last year i hope you will enjoy them as i did.
Happy new Year

"As the world my eyes see"
"Satisfaction is the death of desire"
"You are a f*cking Pig"
"Red wall" illustration for Fault Magazine Uk
"Jusqu'ici tout va bien." in the memory of Alexis Grigoropoulos
til01"The Future is unwriten"

10 best typeface design of 2008

The new year offers a pretext to reconsider all the creations carried out during the last year. Beautiful creations to tell the truth, in all the fields and in particular in that of typographical creation.
Rich and varied work, having each one their specificities, their functions and their styles. Original work which particularly allured me and I want to make you profit in this article.
Discover in the continuation, 10 creations typographical which held my attention this year 2008.

PF Centra Pro

The project of the Centro character began in 2005 by Central Serif then was packed for finally leading to three families of characters: the Central one, Central Serif and Central Slab. The award winning typeface of 2008 at the ED Awards.
An article on the making of of the project is available on the blog of the Parachute foundry which created this great typeface.
The making of PF Centro Pro
More on Centro serif
More on Centro sans
More on Centro slab




FF Netto

Created by Daniel Utz for the Font foundry Make, FF Netto wants to be minimalist: to remove any historical detail to preserve only the essential components.
A function thus, which has as an ambition to simplify the form for a better legibility of the characters.
Equipped with a series with pictograms and arrows, FF Netto is an ideal for the creation of descriptive.



SOHO Gothic

The series of pig iron and cast iron SOHO Gothic is the last stage of project SOHO, drawn by Sebastian Lester.
This family of character proposes seven different, Italic greases included/understood, and is distributed by the Monotype foundry.
For the people wishing to discover the Sebastian designer To ballast, a very good interview comes to be published on site I Coils Typography.



Gloriola

Resolutely contemporary, the family of Gloriola characters was created by the independent foundry Suitcase
A typography without sérif which proposes seven different greases, and which of course makes use of all the possibilities of OpenType by offering small capitals, bindings and a set of alternative styles.
A very beautiful font which was recognized like one of the most beautiful creation of the year 2008 by prestigious Type Director Club.


Skolar

The Skolar was created to allow the publication of information educational goal in various languages. It was created by the Czech designer http://davi.cz " >David Březina and preceded this year of a ED Awards in the category “Prints Original”.
It offers in addition to its many glyphes a multitude of descriptive arrows.



Benton Modern Display

Inspired by Century Expanded of Morris Fuller Benton, the family of characters Benton Modern Display was drawn by Dyana Weissman and Richard Lipton for the foundry Font Office.
A colossal work created for a use in the press or the magazines, which is declined in 36 different styles.



Archer

One of my favorite and about which we already spoke here: Archer, by Hoefler & Brother-Jones.
A mécane full with charm which draws the best from the lesson of the past, but which is integrated perfectly into a contemporary creation.



Katarine

Another creation of quality realized by the Czech foundry Suitcase: Katarine.
Taking as a starting point the structure of DIN or Trade Gothic, it is perfect for a use on a poster for example.
The Katarine offers it also a diversity of style, and even a play of alternative style.



Le Monde Without, Le Monde Mail & Le Monde Deliver

Not one, but three families of characters created by French Jean-François Porchez with whom I had discussed a few months ago.
Three families of characters which are followed but do not resemble and a multitude of styles provision. In short a gigantic work but the result is with the height!





Leitura

The last family of character of this selection should not appear in it, since actually it was published the last year.
Nevertheless it is of a very complete and a great quality, which gives him all its place in this list.
Drawn by Dino Back Santos, Leitura is made up of 6 different alphabets: Leitura, Leitura Display, Leitura Headline, Leitura News, Leitura Without and Leitura Symbols.



A splendid work which was selected the year spent by Typographica like one of most beautiful the typographical creation of 2007.

Helvetica Marker

Ahhhh… technology. The geniuses at Plexifilm have spent the past two years developing a Sharpie pen that actually writes in Helvetica! This pen is so experimental that it’s priceless… literally. You can’t buy one, but you can get one free with any Helvetica merchandise purchase (DVD, T-shirt, etc.). Get your free pen while they last. It’s a great gift for that person in your life with sloppy handwriting…
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Me&MyPen is Daren Newman

Daren Newman is designer, illustrator & typographer. Daren is from Manchester England Uk> I run on his web site by mistake but i felt so lucky to see his work on his site you would find a selection of his bespoke, hand-drawn typographic and illustrative work.
Daren Newman is Me&MyPen

Adobe-D-DAY Athens 2008

Adobe D-Day is a conference which takes place around the world and features top international and local talent discussing issues on inspiration, innovation and latest design solutions. They offer a high degree of expertise in a variety of fields such as video, web, motion graphics, print and much more. Furthermore, the event includes a showcase of hardware and software vendors which offer creative solutions to the design industry. Now, for the first time, the one day conference will be held in Athens, Greece on the 22nd of November. The D-Day event is powered by Adobe and is expected to draw a large number of participants. It is the second in a row this year, after the successful conference which was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates back in April. The speaker line up includes diverse experts such as Icograda’s Vice President Mohammed Joggie, the President of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) Freda Sack, highly acclaimed designer and Adobe’s Channel Manager Charis Tsevis, Adobe’s Senior Worldwide Evangelist Paul Burnett, designers Yiorgos Kostopoulos and Petros Voulgaris, expert photographer Takis Diamantopoulos, as well as, award-winning typeface designer and founder of Parachute® Panos Vassiliou.
For registration information and program details visit Adobe D-Day

Julien Vallée

Julien Vallée Is young director artist motion and graphic designer,
he has a great way to with craft, lovely use of color with incredible ideas
With clients like MTV1, New York Times magazine, Print magazine, UK's best bookstores, im sure we are going to see more things from him in the near future.

Julien Vallée

the most expensive street installation

Obsessions make my life worse and my work better
In September 2008 Sagmeister Inc. is participating in Droog Event 2: Urban Play. The public art installation will consist of 250.000 eurocents placed on the floor, covering more than 300sqm on a square in Amsterdam (>Map). The coins will spell out the sentence “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better”. The piece is part of the series “Things I have learned in my life so far” by Stefan Sagmeister.
From September 14-21 this blog will document the process of setting up the piece, and will then feature live webcam images of the installation.Details

The design is created using four different shades of pennies. We first sort them by color, then lay them out on the tiles. you can download the original design (zip, 4.4MB).
After the piece is completely set up we will leave it alone, on the street. We expect the piece to slowly dissolve as people take coins, play with them, alter the design. All coins have been painted on the back with a bright blue permanent color.

police business
It seems that the Amsterdam police were called by a resident of one of the overlooking buildings early Sunday morning to report that someone was “stealing an artwork”. As the story goes, people were pocketing a few of the coins, which was also expected, but things got a bit out of hand when a resident saw this happening. So the police responded, and, in a rather bizarre instance of police efficiency, they proceeded to “secure” the artwork, by sweeping up the entire installation. 

as taken from sagmeister

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Font park by Morisawa

Morisawa is on oldest font design companies in the world established in july 1924 with more than 240 employees sure is big. Recently released a mini site called font-park where you can explore typographic illustration there is a great random gallery and even create your own typographic illustration made out of Japanese characters enjoy it! 

Font-park

SI SCOTT

ENGLAND UK
Si Scott is a graphic designer from Leeds Uk, In the age of 16 he left his school and went Leeds College Of Art & Design after he moved to Buckinghamshire Chilterns University to study a degree in Graphic Design were he stayed for 2 or the years, and worked for some small agencies and continued to work freelance
He has worked for many big brands Like: nike Channel 4, bbc Tv, Casio , Volvo and many more.
Si, one of the most celebrated typographers of our time.
His work has spawned a thousand copycats.

si scott studio

new bodoni script pro from Parachute fonts

The online version of Bodoni Script Pro has just been released. Based on Bodoni’s distinct swash capitals, this is not simply a digital version of his work, as this typeface was designed with connected lowercase characters and capitals with extra calligraphic elements. It was first released back in 2002 and published in Parachute’s award-winning catalog/book IDEA/Trendsetting Typography vol.1. Later in 2005 a large number of ornaments and borders was revived. All this work was left behind until recently when it was revisited to create a complete 'Pro' family. Several new uppercase and lowercase glyphs were designed in order to make it stand out on its own. Bodoni Script Pro is a (3+1)-weight superfamily. It supports 10 special opentype features including 'contextual alternates' as well as support for both Latin and Greek. Each font comes with 725 glyphs including a large number of alternates as well as 144 ornaments. The full package includes an additional 'bonus font' which contains 120 frame parts. These parts, when put together, create some truly amazing borders.Bodoni Script ProParachute's blog

Best typeface for 2008

This is the the best typeface of the year, winner of the Original Typeface 2008 Ed Awards 08 Stockholm Sweden

"PF Centro Pro is a type system, not just a type family. This large series of 40 fonts with 1519 characters each, is composed of 3 superfamilies (serif, sans and slab), includes true italics and supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It is an almost ‘invisible’ typeface which has legibility as its main attribute and is ideal for a wide range of design works. It does not attract any unnecessary attention, but rather serves its purpose. A rare case of contemporary type family working across three alphabets, Centro Pro meets an ever-growing demand for such typefaces among pan-European companies and institutions”.
Parachute®

The making of PF Centro Pro