Category Archives: Type Design

Free Font

September 10th, 2010
It's almost becom­ing a post a day on the Anti-Design Fest, which kicks off in Lon­don next week. Auck­landers have a there own taste of the fest­ival via a set of bill­boards designed by Philip Kelly (the designs will also fea­ture at the fest­ival, and Design­works designer Josh Barr is rep­res­ent­ing there. Any­way, fans of guns and typefaces (or irony; [...]
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Week­end Her­ald Revamp

August 14th, 2010
The Sat­urday morn­ing stumble back from your let­ter­box may have today been a little more inter­est­ing. The Week­end Her­ald has been given a shake-up cour­tesy Aus­tralian print design spe­cial­ists De Luxe & Asso­ci­ates. De Luxe did a nice job improv­ing the Sunday News a while back, and the firm has quite a port­fo­lio of top shelf cli­ents on its web­site. [...]
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Butcher, Baker, Alpha­bet Maker

July 12th, 2010
Jes­sica His­che is one of the most eagerly anti­cip­ated speak­ers at Semi-Permanent 2010. Sam Eichblatt tracked her down in New York. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. It’s a decept­ively simple idea, but a stroke of genius when it comes to self-promotion. A young Brooklyn-based type designer leaves her day job to go freel­ance in Septem­ber 2009, and [...]
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On Record

May 4th, 2010
Quick­fire ques­tions with (soon-to-be) LA-based art dir­ector Jeff Docherty. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. ProDesign\\ The bio­graph­ical info on your web­site reads a little like this: Christ­ch­urch, Mel­bourne, New York. What’s the best place you’ve worked at as an art director? Jeff Docherty\\ I’d have to say New York, the city is filled with so [...]
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Rock On

February 18th, 2010
Self-initiated work leads to a musical break for Ratio. (ProDesign 104, with addi­tional images) Here’s a rock-related story. Peter Oxley is a rock climber. So too, as it hap­pens, is the Pix­ies’ band man­ager. In a slightly con­vo­luted chain of events, Oxley, cre­at­ive dir­ector of Christ­ch­urch design firm Ratio, who knew the band man­ager from Lon­don, got think­ing about [...]
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Graphic Design: More Koru

October 1st, 2009
You'll find more than just one koru-inspired typeface on these fair shores.
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