Umlauts from Zürich
I was recently in Zürich for a lunch meeting and found the range of executions of the umlaut (ü) interesting and thought I would share with you some photos of my trip.
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dache daily - week 6
Since last week’s article, I have now confirmed the name for my daily upload of my work in progress as “dache daily”. This feature is currently available on twitter and I will be integrating this fully into the new website design of dache.ch. I am currently ironing out a few issues before I can officially celebrate the launch of version 3 and look forward to this over the month.
In the meantime, I am featuring below images of this past week’s work. I look forward to your comments and hope you enjoy.
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An Interview with David Pache
I was recently contacted by Ziggy Nixon to conduct an interview to be displayed on xymara as a feature. I hope that the content of the interview proves informative and interesting. I would like to thank Ziggy (James) for his great questions. Below you will find the article as published.
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First look at Fleur typeface
A preview of a fun new typeface which will be available to download for free once completed. I originally imagined it for use specifically with headlines.
The alphabet is after the bump.
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Type is art
I just recently came across the website Type is Art : An Interactive Exploration of the Typographic Form and I am finding it a really creative. It is an interactive Flash-based version of a poster created by Susanne Cerha. Susanne Cerha of Silo Design approaches letterfoms as “shapes, removed from their communicative capacity”. I love that. The site allows its users full creativity with a set of components of letters from the Centaur typeface. I’ve only just started using it as a fun new canvas and can see that it caters to more than just type addicts.
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