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A first its kind, The Lost Type Co-Op is a pay-what-you-want type foundry.
Begun a little over two years ago by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world.
Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font (you can even type in ‘$0’ for a free download). 100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively — Lost Type takes no cut of sales, and holds no funds.
(somewhere in 18th-century Italy)
I stumbled across these lovely images today… from an 18th century Italian book entitled Scoperta della chironomia, ossia, Dell’arte di gestire con le mani by Vicenzo Requeno, a Spanish monk living in Italy. The book examines the gestural techniques as recounted in various Greek and Latin authors, concentrating on representing numbers with the hand.
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Paris, France
Lovisa Burfitt caught my eye. She’s a Swedish illustrator based in France, drawing fashion, accessories, food, make-up, travels, flowers, objects/interiors and more…
Vigo, Spain
Isaac Cordal is a Spanish artist whose ongoing series entitled ‘Cement Eclipses’ began in art school in 2002. Cordal makes the tiny sculptures in his apartment/home studio. He has placed them in major cities all around Europe including: London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Milan, Berlin and Brussels… “Small interventions in big cities.”
“Our gaze is so strongly focused on beautiful, large things, whereas the city also contains zones that have the potential to be beautiful, or that were really beautiful in the past, which we overlook. I find it really interesting to go looking for those very places and via small-scale interventions to develop a different way of looking at our behaviour as a social mass.”
—Isaac Cordal
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At some point last week this link crossed my desktop… a lovely collection of cautionary poster images (many more at the link).
To whoever sent me this link, apologies… let me know and I’ll give you source credit here.
Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change The World
by David B. Berman
AIGA Design Press / New Riders (Peachpit)
A little over four years ago I reviewed David B. Berman’s important new book here on this blog. I was delighted today to receive an updated/reprint version of this honest, hard-hitting, book—together with a lovely note from David (Duv to his friends), who I have known and exchanged ideas re: design ethics with for well over 20 years.
Do Good Design rails against the consumptive excesses of the so-called “developed world” and urges designers to help steer a better course for our planet—before it’s too late. Delivered with in-your-face directness, it presents a strong argument regarding the inherent power of design to shape our world and takes on greed, excess, and the scheming tendencies of advertising and “targeted” visual communications. Full of pithy quotations, well illustrated (with wide-ranging examples of manipulative media and manufactured needs) and impressively annotated and cross-referenced, David combines his keen observation skills with courage to question the status quo, expressing his marathon call for positive change with passionate zeal. In his words, “the future of civilization is our common design project.”
Thanks Duv—keep up the “good” work of shaping a more equitable and sustainable future!
More info at dogoodbook.com.
London, UK
In 2010, Fletcher Studio was set up by Alan’s daughter, Raffaella Fletcher, to manage the archive of her famous father’s work. The archive is now online, and Raffaella has given me permission to post some samples of Alan’s work here… please note that everything shown here and on the website at alanfletcherarchive.com is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world.
View much more of Alan Fletcher’s beautiful graphic design work (and descriptions for the images shown above) here.
Thanks to Ronald Shakespear, a mutual friend from Argentina, for bringing the Alan Fletcher Archive to my attention.
