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It´s now online the result of the Type Directors Club 2006 Contest.
In the picture: Frutiger Next Greek by Adrian Frutiger and Eva Masoura.

Update: This is very old news, i´m sorry for posting this with such a bad timing.
If you are interested in participating in the 2007 TDC2 competition, the deadline is January 12 2007.

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SAUL BASS
The Hollywood Connection
January 4–April 1
Ruby and Hurd Galleries
Free Entrance.

For anyone who has the luck to be in Los Angeles, here´s a nice event.
On view are movie posters, soundtrack-album covers, Bass’s storyboard of the famous shower scene in Psycho (1960), and more.
During his distinguished career, graphic designer Saul Bass (1920–1996) became a legend for conceiving the now-iconic logos of such companies as AT&T and United Airlines. Bass is also recognized for transforming motion-picture title sequences from static typography into an art form. This exhibition focuses on Bass’s work for the American film industry. On view are posters, soundtrack-album covers, Bass’s storyboard of the famous shower scene in Psycho (1960), and continuous screenings of a montage of selected film titles edited by Bass and his wife, Elaine. The documentary Why Man Creates (1968), for which Bass won an Academy Award, will also be screened in the exhibition.

It was award-winning filmmaker Otto Preminger who offered Bass his first opportunity to design a title sequence—for the film Carmen Jones (1954). From this groundbreaking early experience, Bass would come to work with such illustrious filmmakers as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorcese, all of whom valued Bass’s creative use of animation, live action, and dynamic typography. Bass—who, beginning with Spartacus (1960), collaborated with his wife, Elaine—produced more than fifty title sequences for such celebrated films as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Vertigo (1958), Exodus (1960), Grand Prix (1966), and Cape Fear (1991).

Source: Skirball

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12th Internacional Design Conference
17 to 19 May
Issue: Music

TYPO is not a meeting of experts, a congress of crazy typographers, but TYPO has developed itself into becoming the largest designer event in Europe. It is interdisciplinary, open-minded, and outward looking. It offers an annual focus, and a combination of presentations, lectures, and panel discussions. It is a showcase for graphic, motion, web, game, typography, sound, corporate and boundless design, from all over the world, compacted and condensed into a 3-day programme, in three parallel series of discussion themes. As David Carson said in 2006: “The best conference in the world.”

Some names already confirmed but more to be added: Clive Bruton, Lutz Hackenberg, Markus Hanzer, Kim Hiorthøy, House Industries, Richard Kegler, YangLiu, Horst Moser, Sander Neijnens, Hans Reichel, Moritz “mo.” Sauer,Piet Schreuders, Henry Steinhau, Niklaus Troxler, Frank Westermann,Werner J. Wolff

If you register until the end of the year, you will benefit from the special early-bird registration rate. Tickets are 445,- € for professionals and 200,- € for students (incl. VAT).
Two days left, hurry up!

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Ok, it´s a bit old news, but i thought i´d published it since it wasn´t mencioned yet on this blog.

In this 4 day workshop for students and professionals alike, designed lettering and signage that is based on Lisbon’s great variety of vernacular and vintage shop signs.These beautiful but sadly endangered pieces were used as inspiration and as the base for the sketches.

Type the City! is one of a series of workshops iniciated by Atelier Carvalho Bernau.

Source.

Sketches.

Final Result.

Is this example D. Emília by Catarina Lopes.

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