Fonts, movement and bikes!

Type-Bike Juan Madrigal, 2010

Back from our first in a series of site visits to the Anne M. Cramer Studio and Woychick Design and feeling restored and inspired once again by the powers of art and design...special thanks to the designers for their generous sharing of  their work, ideas and studios with us!  Looking forward to another conversation with both of them and Section D this week...

As we officially begin this dark and blustery midterm week, I want to direct you to another link to that mesmerizing font ballet Ligne I spoke about last week, along with one to designer Andrew Sloat's More Perfect Union, a  textual performance of the Constitution. Both of these projects are innovative performances of text and definitely worth checking out.

Bike Type by George Crick

Mid term reports are due next week, and I urge anyone who has not yet posted blogs 1-4 (including your collaborative Mining the Museum post due this week,) or turned in their Visual Archive Resource journal to do so now!   Section A will have a little work time in the classroom this week after we watch a little of  Helvetica, but don't wait til the last moment... 

Write a Bike by Zuri Zaech

In the meantime, I will leave you with these images of type and bicycles.  From the Behance Network comes the Bike Type by George Crick and Write a Bike, by Zuri Zaech, and on Trendland I found the Type Bike by Juan Madrigal, adorned with none other than Helvetica Medium 98 pt. and 198 pt. 

And in honor of Halloween and all things type, here's a link to an interesting article by designer and educator Jessica Helfand from her post on  Observatory about text and body, with a somewhat spooky image by Chinese artist Zhang Huan from his performance Family Tree.

Family Tree ©2000 Zhang Huan

p.s. This week's art-junk prize of the week goes to the first person to identify the font used in our OAD syllabus....

Happy fonting!