Paul Stonier

Type Battles #33: Futura Holiday Dingbats

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Every once in a while Typophile hosts a new battle for fellow members to compete in a type nerd’s version of a street battle. The current battle is to create 5 Futura dingbats

“As with any street battle, there is no panel of judges and no prize — only the ability to call yourself the best on the block.”

Here’s my entry. I’m one of the few to try to do it for Futura Bold. Also, since the limit of the space when dealing with such heavy strokes, I decided to make them very simpler and more iconic. There haven’t been many other entries yet. Any challengers up for the task?

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Pentagram Designs This Year’s AIGA Annual

Graphic Design

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Paula Scher and her team designed this year’s AIGA annual. I can’t wait to get mine. Check out a sneak peak here.

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Monsieur Qui

Graphic Design

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I just heard about this Parisian Illustrator from cakeface.
I’m extremely impressed by the beauty, complexity and sophistication of this artist’s work. The integration of type with form and models feels extremely organic.

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Yulia Brodskaya

Graphic Design, Typography

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Yulia Brodskaya makes typographic illustrations and designs including what she calls Papergraphic illustrations. These are quite interesting and impressive. Have a looksee at these gorgeous examples of her fine work.
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AIGA Upstate New York re-design

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AIGA Upstate New York
AIGA Upstate New York’s got a new site design…and it seems to have a hint of MyDarndest behind it.

The quasi-new President of AIGA Upstate New York, Bill Klingensmith aka MyDarndest, has been making some impressive efforts in order to make the AIGA an outstanding resource for members in upstate. Through organizing events such as Creative Eats, where fellow creatives can hang out and chat about what’s going on and the Poster Exhibition at Abilene. He’s also been developing and writing for the blog on the AIGA Upstate site to serve as a resource for both students and professionals. So, I’ve got to give props to good ole BK for putting in some solid effort into making AIGA an even greater resource for creatives in Upstate NY.

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Internet People

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It’s a strange sense of humor that spreads among people. Luckily corporate America hasn’t figured out how to take advantage of this yet. The closest has to be either Geico with the cavemen or apple with the PC vs Mac ads.

Thanks to If Its Hip Its Here for bringing this to my attention.

Strangely enough, the latest episode of South Park was exactly about this.

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Blogging a Blog

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Keep an eye out for these guys. A group of 4th year design students are contributing to a blog together and they have some good taste. I’ve been looking through they’re posts and wondering why I haven’t posted about them myself.

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