In honour of Canada Day tomorrow, there’s an extensive article by My Fonts about Canada Type. Although there is plenty of typographic cheese in this library, there are some nice revivals. I’ve been researching old Vogue, Seventeen and Charm magazines lately, so these classic and stylish faces are appealing to me today.
See even more on Flickr! My favourite page is below.
See more (and closeups) on flickr.
Here’s a preview of one of the spreads in issue 2: Fine Print, featuring the marvelous book The Handy Book of Artistic Printing. I’ll draw a winner from all our subscribers. The lucky person will receive a free copy of the book with their subscription. If you’re not a subscriber yet, please go right ahead—the draw will be made this Friday from all our of subscribers up until that point.
‘…Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
…Don’t wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don’t wanna be a bum
You better chew gum…’
British actor Ben Whishaw riffs on Bob’s Homesick Subterranean Blues. Click here to read the song lyrics in full.
Here are some letters that Deidre cut out for the Library feature in the upcoming issue. I then photographed the letters, converted them into a bitmaps and used them in the page design.
Motion Typography from drifting creatives on Vimeo.
Ed Nacional emailed these pictures of artistic movie titles. Look for “The Lost Art of The End” in issue 2 of the magazine in which UPPERCASE readers explore end titles in contemporary film.
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