Erler Dingbats [free]

For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 – U + 27BF) is now covered by a complete, contemporary quality font. Erler Dingbats is a spin-off of the distinguished FF Dingbats 2.0 family, and was designed as a special collaboration between designers Johannes Erler and Henning Skibbe.

http://ffdingbatsfont.com/erler/index.html

The Branding of the Occupy Movement [NYT]

By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: November 27, 2011

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Kalle Lasn, the longtime editor of the anticonsumerist magazine Adbusters, did not invent the anger that has been feeding the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the United States.

But he did brand it.

Details on Chip Kidd’s Batman: Death By Design

It’s no secret that Chip Kidd is a big Batman fan. In fact, just a couple of years back, we were talking about exactly that, when we wrote about the famous design keeping tabs in his journal of all things Batman-related at that year’s Comic-Con. Now it seems that Kidd is making that love official, with the news coming last month that DC Comics had brought aboard Kidd to pen a full-length graphic novel and artist Dave Taylor to visually bring it to life.

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design

Take a look at the printing of the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work.

Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta.

Film by Alice Masters

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

a provocative and quick read:

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

"Hands do two things. They are two utterly amazing things, and you rely on them every moment of the day, and most Future Interaction Concepts completely ignore both of them.

Hands feel things, and hands manipulate things."


courtesy of
artdepartment.tumblr.com

Type. A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, 1628-1900

Wow - what a book and a second volume as well. Includes exclusive access with TASCHEN keycard to online image library: over 1000 high-resolution scans of type specimens downloadable for unrestricted use.

Check it out.

Thank you James Van Kriedt for the reference.

111 Minna Gallery event - call for submissions

Call for Submissions - Due Friday November 11th

Nexus ArtReach is organizing a one-night exhibition event at the 111 Minna Gallery that will happen on November 23, the day before Thanksgiving. The deadline for submissions for the show is Nov. 11, which is Friday and they are still looking for art - namely from college/university students, recent graduates, or community-based artists. The theme of the event is "Have Your Say," and is supposed to be a platform for artists to share what's on their minds regarding today's local, national, or global affairs.

A Tale of Two Graphic Designers: Martin Venezky and Jon Sueda

Today, professors Martin Venezky and Jon Sueda seem like two sides of the same coin. In the Graphic Design courses they co-teach at CCA, they listen to their students before speaking, argue with each other fruitfully and comfortably, then almost always agree on what the student should do next. In addition to their academic work, each has forged a successful professional career.

Read the article

AIGA SF Student Lecture: Tom Crabtree | AIGA San Francisco

AIGA SF Student Lecture: Tom Crabtree | AIGA San Francisco

Schedule:
6.30pm – 7.00pm – Mixer, Free beer & snacks (21 and over with ID), while supplies last!
7:00 – 8.00pm – Talk
8:00 – 8.30pm – Questions/mixer

This event is for students only.

Manual is a San Francisco design and branding studio. Originally from England, Tom has been living and working in San Francisco since 2006.

Tom’s career started in London in 1999. Within a few years he was working as a senior designer at two of London’s most high profile design studios;MadeThought and Spin. In 2006, he relocated to San Francisco to work as an Art Director at Apple, specializing in packaging design and art direction for products including the iPhone.

In 2009, Tom established his own studio: Manual. In just over two years Manual has gained an international reputation and continues to embrace working with a diverse range of clients in fashion, arts & culture, technology, food, architecture & industrial design, and publishing.