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Jos Buivenga

After looking at that wonderful face, how could you not enjoy the talented Jos Buivenga’s exljbris? And yes, there is a blog attached, the exljbris - Free Quality Font Foundry blog for news, releases & comments on the exljbris site.

exljbris

And since I’m on a sort of an enforced hiatus, I’m going to send you over to ILT’s to read Face to Face, an Interview with Jos Buivenga. Please enjoy. I did!

Say It Ain’t Slow

Slow. Yes. A good way to introduce a possibility. My time here in the UK is coming to a close. And, well, as I’m trying to cram everything in at the end, my posts are slowing down (which makes no sense out of my new addiction to twitter). [… Continue reading … Say It Ain’t Slow: Making the Font Game

Typesites

There are not enough sites around talking type, so I’m not going to wait three months for Typesites to add more meat. I’m going in now.

What is Typesites:
Typesites is a weekly look at sites that have great typographic design.

Interesting Posts:
A longtime fav - bearskinrug (be sure to check out the comments). And jesús velasco (by Miguel Ripoll).

Found at Typesites:

• I Love Typography devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical.
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web a practical guide to web typography.
• Typophile Typographic Collaboration.

And that’s a wrap for the week. See you on Monday!

Oded Ezer

Ketubah

From Oded Ezer:
Here is a preview of my new typo work - Ketubah.
The ketubah (a Jewish prenuptial agreement) is one of the predominant forms of Jewish art. Here, using a different typeface for each language appearing in this multilingual Ketubah (Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French and Spanish), I had a great pleasure exploring a more traditional aspects of Hebrew and Latin typography, trying to combine it with my own style.

This isn’t the first time Oded has been on DWB. Enjoy Tybrid and Typosperma.

Website: Oded Ezer Typography.

Oded Ezer Typography

Tybrid

After a month long holiday, it’s great to be back with a new project from Oded.

From Oded Ezer:
‘Tybrid’ (=typographic hybrids) is a new work created specially for an invitational poster exhibition, themed ‘My favorite Game’, that is going to be held in July 2007 in Ithaca, and in September in Athens, Greece. Tybrid consists of 4 squares (each 50×50 cm) combined together, forming the Hebrew word for ‘Typography’.

You can see more on his photo blog at Flickr - Photos from Oded E.

Manage This

… check out the Helvetica documentary world premier haiku contest submissions.

From Manage This:
In honor of the world premiere of the Helvetica documentary at SXSW … we’d like to celebrate and honor the achievement by giving away one of the limited edition fine art posters from the movie … write a font-related haiku in the comments section … the most creative, fun and interesting haiku will be awarded the prize.

Manage This is by: Extensis

TypeOff.de

From Dan:
In 2004, TypeOff.de was founded as a collective of typography students from Offenbach, Germany. After two years, a static website, and a group-based blog, TypeOff.de now primarily serves as an online soapbox for its founder, Dan Reynolds. TypeOff.de is dedicated to discussion about typography, type design, and graphic design.

Who wouldn’t smile at Dan’s post, Some Things Never Change. It’s about a type specimen sheet, in German, advertising wares (translation by Dan) “The cheapest priced contemporary typefaces are to be found with me / I have the cheapest selection of contemporary typefaces / Wolfgang Dietrich Ehrhart, typefounder in Leipzig [circa 1710].”

Other posts on TypeOff.de:
Writing Lessons from the Koch Book and Lombardic Lettering at Chartres

Found at TypeOff.de:
100types.com.list and Die 100 Besten Schriften and Fontblog

Discovered via: Submit a blog

Oded Ezer

Typosperma

About:
Created by Oded Ezer, Typosperma is the second experimental typo project in his ‘Biotypography’ series. As a paraphrase on the biotechnology definition, ‘Biotypography’ is a term that refers to any typographical application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to create or modify typographical phenomena. The main idea of the ‘Typosperma’ project was to create some sort of new transgenic creatures, half (human) sperm, half letter. These imaginary creatures are cloned sperms, that typographic information has been implanted into their DNA.

Check out:
Biotypography poster and ‘Rooms’, typo art project

Get to know Oded Ezer. Please.
“dot-font: Is It Type, Or Is It Art?
“Oded Ezer - experimental Hebrew typography
“The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy” / An interview with Oded Ezer

Discovered via: Submit a blog

ps: no, it’s not a blog … I’m cheating …

Richard Weston

Ace Jet 170

Ace Jet 170:
A blog of found type, print and stuff. I’m enjoying Richard’s straightforward nav in a nutshell consisting of Books, Print and Things. And wow. What a collection.

From the site:
… a project that took a while to compile. It includes the work of designers that have had an influence on my work: (in no particular order) Josef Muller-Brockmann, Tschichold, Derek Birdsall, Otl Aicher, Abrahm Games, Piet Zwart, Herbert Matter, Saul Bass, Hans Schleger, Le Corbusier, Brownjohn and Ladislav Sutnar, along with more random items like the Swiss Passport or Boccioni’s Fist.

Typographica

Typographica, a resource on all things typography.

Typographica is the former Typographi.ca. Remember the shocker when Canada pulled the name (.ca) after a new ruling went through? No? Well, it was then snatched up by a … well, you can read the rest of the story by visiting Farewell typographi.ca

For a savoury dip, check out Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1 and Our Favorite Fonts of 2004.

From the about:
Typographica is a journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.

Typographica is by: Editors Stephen Coles and Joshua Lurie-Terrell