Monthly Archive for July, 2009

‘Buttermilk’ Font, From Jessica Hische

‘Buttermilk’ Font, From Jessica Hische

‘Buttermilk’, from Jessica Hische.

Illustrator/Designer Jes­sica Hische released her first type­face today, and it looks gor­geous. But­ter­milk is a “bold script that would be just per­fect for mag­a­zine head­lines, book title type, hol­i­day cards, ini­tial caps, you name it.”

The numer­als are espe­cially beau­ti­ful, and she promises a “huge array of lig­a­tures to help you set it beau­ti­fully and easily.”

I worked with Jes­sica last fall on a nice retro logo for the Pogue-o-matic. Be sure to check out Jessica’s work, (I’m par­tic­u­larly fond of her let­ter­press stuff.)

July 14, 2009 » Tags: , . » 0 Comments

Mediaite Launch

Rex Sor­gatz on the design of Medi­aite, Dan Abrams’s new media website:

…‘horizontal sites’ build a new kind of impor­tance hier­ar­chy. Design­ers don’t real­ize it, but unaligned ver­ti­cal stacks are a rem­nant of the way that news­pa­pers were designed—in columns, up and down. These new lay­outs are more like movie screens and wide mon­i­tors, with action moving left and right.

A very simple, but poten­tially evo­lu­tion­ary step in our under­stand­ing of how read­ers can best scan and make sense of content.

July 6, 2009 » Tags: , , . » 0 Comments