Friday the 13th…
Be kind to the media buyers… ad placement and the context in which audiences encounter marketing messages have much to do with the success or failure of the intended communication. (Thanks to Matt Warburton for this link).
Winnipeg, Canada
Geez magazine is looking for a half-time, Winnipeg-based person to help with business aspects. The new Associate Publisher would work closely with other part-time staff. Application deadline is 31 March, with an anticipated start date of 15 April.
A clever idea (also a useful reference tool re: peer opinions on typography, as the rankings are determined by sorting and combining “best font” lists from a variety of interesting sources), here.
(Thanks to Kathryn Lancashire for the link).
West Virginia
Here’s a nice find… from Westvaco’s Inspirations for Printers 1953-1955, designed by Bradbury Thompson. Inspirations for Printers was a graphic arts publication issued by the Westvaco Corporation (formerly named the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company) with the objective of showing typography, photography, art work and other graphic inventiveness on papers manufactured at its mills. (Via Parisian graphic designer Peter Gabor’s Galeries Pédagogiques de Design & Typo).
Confoederatio Helvetica
Bibliophiles and typophiles alike will enjoy this richly annotated collection of “book (design) stories”—from new typography to swiss style—here (with a full index showing the nearly 600 titles here). Takes me back to growing up in Basel-Land (just a few km from Münchenstein, where Helvetica was designed) in the early 1960s…
Images (from top): Stile Olivetti designed in 1961 by Walter Ballmer; Typographische Mitteilungen, 1925, by Jan Tschichold; Der Film, 1960, by Josef Müller-Brockmann, Jörg Hamburger, and Serge Stauffer; and Pontresina (ski-resort map) designed ca. 1935 by Emil Schultheiss.
The International Womens Day turns 98 today; the official website is here.
Images (from top): Europe Supported by Africa and America (detail—explicitly ‘Eurocentric’), 1796, William Blake: The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running Between the Combatants (detail, the Louvre), 1794-99, Jacques-Louis David; The Musician, 1929, Tamara de Lempicka.
Los Angeles, California
Churchill, Manitoba
These shots just in from good friend Mike Grandmaison, who’s been hanging out with local polar bears in Churchill again, (on Hudson Bay, about 1000 km north of Winnipeg). Enjoy more of Mike’s outstanding photography—spanning the entire breadth of Canada—here. (Images ©2009 Mike Grandmaison).
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Noah Richler (son of the often acerbic Mordecai Richler) has written a glowing tribute to Winnipeg in today’s Toronto Star—all I can say is I fully concur… and I feel very fortunate to have anchored my design career in this very special place. Read the article here.
(Thanks to Oliver Oike for the heads-up, and to Mike Grandmaison for the great photo looking across the mighty Red River).
