About a month ago we released a new font, Matter. We felt it would be beneficial to go an extra mile and create a small PDF zine to further show the typographic value of Matter.


Download the Matter Zine (Right-Click, Save As)

Swedish graphic designer Joakim Jansson is this week’s featured designer. His work encompasses many areas related to design including art direction, graphic design, typography, illustration, branding and web. He also contributes to the Style Press blog and DJs as Soda Popinski in his spare time. Here’s a little more about him and his work…




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From the big wigs over at Canada Type we now have their second bundled collection. This set includes 14 different type families and a total 31 different font weights and variations. So go ahead, revive and freshen up your font collection with this super discounted set today! This package saves you over $125! In this sour economy, this might cost a grip up front, but you save so much more in the long run and grand scheme of things. Perfect for any agency or small design shop’s type collection.

 

Personally, I really like Canada Type and what they are doing. These guys are typeface making machines, just look at how many of their fonts we handle. I really like this work ethic, which is, well WORK!

A good strategy for design and maybe even for life is to be more weird than the guy next to you. Tokyo/Osaka’s It’s Our Thing is accomplishing this one t-shirt at a time.

Super nice guy and talented illustrator Damien Correll has been doing these beautiful covers for the podcasts over at Radiozero. Go there and check them out as well as the podcast if you need some tunes to get you set for the weekend.

Eric Carlson (formerly YWFT) and H/H crew were interviewed by the Walker for an upcoming gallery project here.

 

For more info:

Hardland Heartland

Eric Carlson

I am going to riff a little with the spirit of today’s theme, Earth Day. 

 

First, there is a really nice zine for earth day titled, RRR. You can check the pdf out here and has a lot of really nice work from a lot of players in the illustration-design arena. I think you can only find it here, so feel free to link this post up. Proceeds from future sales of the printed versions of this book or artwork found within will go to benefit the Surfrider Foundation. Don’t forget to check out Steven Harrington’s Earth Day poster. Thanks, Jonathan.

 

I really like themes, collections, etc so thought I would put my top 10 albums to listen to today:

 

David Axelrod - Earth Rot

Marion Brown - Sweet Earth Flying 

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Red Earth

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Olesi: Fragments Of An Earth

Sandoz - Live In The Earth

Augustus Pablo - Earth’s Rightful Ruler 

Madlib - Earth Sounds 

Vangelis - Earth (Essential listen)

Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

Earth - Hex

Earth Day is tomorrow, be sure to get outside and appreciate our wonderful planet.

Lee Douglas Self Portrait

Monsieur L’Agent is a creative agency, which brings together some of the most talented art directors, illustrators and graphic designers out there. Started by Alexis Le-Tan and Romauld Stivine.

If you’re in Minneapolis tonight, PB&J (Peter, Bjorn, and John) are playing a show with Chairlift at the Fine Line Music Cafe. This beautiful poster was screen printed by Mr. EMQUINN and features a YouWorkForThem typeface Augustus designed by Karl Frankowski. Buy a print at the show this evening.