Helvetica on PBS

PBS launched a nice mini-site to coincide with the premiere of Gary Hustwit’s film Helvetica. Visit the site here. Also, take the test to see which font you are, my results listed me as being Helvetica. Take the test here.

Goodbye Henington Press

Full story at WNYC here.

Thank you Design Observer.

Typographic Tour of London

A short brief film on typography in London and it’s usage by Boico.

Thank you Design Observer.

Polaroid PoGo

With traditional Polaroid film slowly becoming extinct the Polaroid PoGo looks promising. The device “is a pocket-sized, inkless digital printer that produces full-color photos wirelessly from cell phones and via PictBridge from digital cameras.”

More information on PoGo can be found here.

Vinyl

I need to find this, Alan Zweig’s documentary, Vinyl.

Thank you Things Magazine.

Monkey Style @ SiP

12.15.08 – 01.15.09
Monkey Style
SiP
998 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025

Opening Reception
12.27.09
9 PM – 12 AM

Curated by Trevor Traynor, portfolio here, blog here.

Down 12 18 08

Poster I designed for my friend Eric’s monthly event, Down, at Oulu in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

More information on Eric can be found at his site here and at Beyond Booking here. Last month’s Down session can be found at MNML SSGS here.

Brooklyn We Go Hard

Beautiful typographic treatment for the new Jay-Z video by Evan Roth.

Blog posting from Evan Roth here. Source code, yes source code, here.

Peter Saville

“I like the idea of things looking better because I thought they should look better…not just looking better in order to make people buy them or in fact to make people buy things that they don’t really need…”

Thank you Kottke.