Progam cover: Emily In White and FF Mark

Farewell event for the executive director of the American Academy in Berlin:
Invitation folder and event program.

Groundplan, labeling: Emily In White

Program layout: FF Mark

Invitation detail: FF Mark, Emily In White on transparency

Invitation in folder

Invitation detail

A sweet launched in 1983, named — according to this reference in Wikipedia — after a reference in the Dr. Seuss Book, If I Ran the Zoo, where a 'nerd' is mentioned as one of the creatures the narrator would collect for his zoo.

Alias August is used for logotype and product names.

“Exposed” or “showing something as it is” are some of the definitions for the word uncovered. Through this concept is born an editorial collection which proposes to avoid the clichés and question what was previously established. Structured in monographics, each publication addresses a range of topics (art, literature, photography, history, society) under
one single concept: dreams, emptiness, or even silence.

This final degree project was awarded with a Silver Laus 2014.

Nicholas Felton’s 2013 edition of his annual report is one of the first public uses of the Input type series. It is also a perfect example of how Input can perform beyond its primary function as a coding typeface. Felton explains the typographic backstory on the Font Bureau blog.

Marc Chagall – priča nad pričama is a monograph authored by Marina Viculin, Meret Meyer and Jean Michel Foray that was published on the occasion of the exhibition of Marc Chagall’s work at Klovicevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia. The key element of the identity is a “levitating” typographic composition of Chagall’s name, deliberately positioned in the upper edge of the format, bleeding off the page. This resembles Chagall’s flying figures, the reoccurring motif he used in his work which symbolizes his wavering between the spiritual and the earthly.

Chip Kidd chose Gotham letterforms for Gotham sounds. Forthcoming from Atavist, Twice Upon A Time is “a unique, multilayered digital experience combining a beautiful prose essay on the sounds of New York with the extraordinary music of Moondog and binaural recordings of the city itself.” Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in 2000, Gotham was inspired by signs and architectural lettering found on the streets of New York.

The logo for media streaming service Netflix — in use since its founding in 1997 — could be an entirely custom letttering job, but it is quite feasible that the designers based the mark on the very similar Graphique, perhaps trimming the shapes at the bottom for that retro-cinematic curved baseline.

Graphique is a 1940s typeface credited to Swiss designer Hermann Eidenbenz, the man also partially responsible for the modern incarnation of Clarendon.

There are at least two digital versions of Graphique, ARType’s Graphique-AR, which is a closer match to the metal specimens shown in Encyclopaedia of Typefaces and this Stempel specimen; and profonts’ Graphique Pro which takes more liberties with the design (see the detached ‘Q’ tail, for instance) and has a larger character set. Graphique Pro is also wider than Graphique-AR, with a heavier outline, so it could be based on a smaller size of the metal type.

Netflix headquarters.

Netflix Android app.

Netflix on a TV set.

The Netflix website. See also our entry on House of Cards.

Specimen of the metal Graphique from D. Stempel AG.

“The Slim wallet is a super-thin, card-carrying, over-achiever. Designed for minimalists.”

“Bruno's Supermarkets, LLC was an American chain of grocery stores with its headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1932 by Joe Bruno in Birmingham. During the company's pinnacle, it operated over 300 stores under the names Bruno’s, Food World, Foodmax, Food Fair, Fresh Value, Vincent's Markets, Piggly Wiggly, Consumer Foods, and American Fare in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and South Carolina. The chain was acquired by Birmingham-based Belle Foods which discontinued the brand in 2012.” — Wikipedia

I don’t know when this logo was introduced or who designed it.

Sample Child's Ration Book. Throughout the 1940s (and for nine years after the end of the war) every man woman and child in Britain owned ration books of coupons for food and clothing. The Ministry of Food's carefully formulated diet is generally believed to have improved the nation's health.