A photographic and poetic guide to the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, France, built around rain and impressionism, where shifting weather transforms the landscape.

From Wikipedia:

Art Van Damme (April 9, 1920 – February 15, 2010) was an American jazz accordionist.

Van Damme toured Europe and was popular with jazz enthusiasts in Japan.

The swashy Bookman variant used on the cover of his 1967 compilation Music for Lovers is PLINC Bookman Swash. The song list is set in all-caps News Gothic.

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A proposal to reconnect the passage of time with what happens in nature.

A calendar is a cultural tool that represents the passage of time via a series of common and recurring events. Since the dawn of human history, hunters and gatherers contemplated the skies to plan their activities and agreed on references to mark common events. Because they observed the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the stars, the first humans were able to collectively think about themselves in the future and reflect on their vast past.

Designed for Para la Naturaleza, the calendar was a finalist in BID20 (7ª Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño).

Bird is a Dutch independent accessories brand founded by Anja Fijma. In their Amsterdam-based atelier, Bird is handcrafting raincovers to protect precious, beloved handbags from bad weather conditions.

The brand creates protection the same way a person would for its loved ones or like a bird cares for its offspring, hence the name.

For Bird’s logo, Fijma customized Grand Slang (Nikolas Type) and paired it with Grand Slang Italic and Tenor Sans by Denis Masharov for the overall identity.

Double Sided US Advance One Sheet

The posters for the 1999 science-fiction action film The Matrix were designed by Concept Arts.

The film's logo is based on Times, creatively sliced and rearranged with added horizontal lines to appear as if it has been corrupted by computer glitch. The billing, release date, and digital rain are set in OCR-A, a standardized, monospaced font designed for optical character recognition on electronic devices. The credit block is set in Bee, a popular choice for the condensed credits required on movie posters.

Times letterforms, resized and compared to the logo for the film.

The US Advance Subway Two Sheet poster also features the same imagery and type in an alternate layout.

TWK Lausanne in use for the poster designed for a series of concerts titled “Purple Rain”, with songs about water performed by the Songria choir from Mutschellen, Switzerland.

Petrichor is a word for the scent of rain on parched ground after a hot dry spell. For our second typervention in this series, we stencilled it in water on Delhi’s heated roads, watching as it evaporated. […]

Set in the gorgeous Reina, a typeface we’ve been smitten with since last year, we cut a 2×12 feet stencil and sprayed water through it, to transfer the lettering to the ground. The roads and pathways are so hot in Delhi’s blazing 45 degrees, that the water made it smell lovely immediately and the lettering evaporated within seconds.— Type Out

Type Out aims to:
Create experimental typography installations (preferably in public spaces)
Use everyday materials (non-invasive, ephemeral, affordable), and
Spell relevant, meaningful, optimistic message about the city.

Via @rnkeller