This year I’ve returned to teaching at Otis College of Art & Design. My friend Bill Sneed asked me to participate in a class he is teaching on Motion Graphics fundamentals, techniques and workflow. I met Bill when I first taught at Otis 11 years ago; he was a student at the time.
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Stephen Coles of Typographica invited a number of type luminaries to weigh in on their favorite new typefaces of 2011. He compiled their selects into a list called Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011. I picked 6 from Typographica’s list of more than 40 (or well over 100 if you’re counting Honorable Mentions).
Australian American designer Cameron Booth created a subway-style map of the U.S. Interstate system. The result is a boon for the geographically and cartographically impaired like me. Click the image to see a larger version.
Found on the Fast Company Design blog.
More samples below.
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Jarrett Heather created this fantastic animation for Jonathan Coulton’s ear worm of song Because it’s Loud when the Shop-Vac’s On.
To all of you practicing that thing someone decided to call kinetic typography - this is the bar and it’s very, very high. And while I might quibble with Jarrett’s kerning ability, that would be missing the point entirely.
This is awesome. Enjoy.
XK9’s typeface Megahertz is seeing some time on the silver screen this Summer.
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I love dogs. I wasn’t a cat lover until Camille.
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I’m going to a friend’s house this afternoon. There will be a football game on television that many people seem quite interested in. Not me.
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On January 24, 2012, Matt Sessions, Josh Zucker and I met at Aardvark Letterpress in downtown Los Angeles. Cary and Brooks Ocon and Pressman Bill Berkuta had agreed to let us to get in their way while the XK9 business cards were being printed. This film is a small document of Aardvark’s excellence and what happened that day.
