Chank Blog


Chank Fonts Across America: Mankato

The cold new movie about how to make a font in subzero windchills. Extreme typography!

 



Christopher Walken has font issues
April 28, 2008, 2:15 pm
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I’d like to think that maybe it’s one of my fonts that’s setting Walken off here. 



Enter the Serif!
April 28, 2008, 2:01 pm
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Ah! A rare and brutish blast of font geek humor!



Snow Big Deal: Chank Movie Trailer #2
March 31, 2008, 10:47 am
Filed under: Chank Art, Font News, FontSightings

Another sneak preview of the next Chank YouTube video, this time a fontmaking workshop set in Mankato in February. (The first trailer is right below it here.)



Snow Big Deal: Chank Movie Trailer
March 22, 2008, 3:00 pm
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Skippy font video featured at YouTube
January 23, 2008, 2:41 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

Yeehaw, that’s right, we’re #1 with a bullet. The Pela music video using Chank font Skippy Sharp is featured on the main page of YouTube today. 35, 000 views and counting… wow!



Skippy Sharp moves in Pela music video
December 22, 2007, 10:40 am
Filed under: FontSightings

More kudos to Shelby for making this animation of Chank font Skippy Sharp using a song from the band Pela. What a great way to capture the youthful fun and bounce of this classic Sharpie marker font! We’re still looking for more new font movies. Make a video using Chank Fonts; if we use your video we’ll send you a prize.  

 



GOSHEN GOES GONE GONE GONE IN MUSIC VIDEO
December 3, 2007, 5:38 pm
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Congratulations to Shelby Miller of Shifted Sound, the first winner of the motion graphics contest. He sent this video our way showing off Goshen in this John Ralston music video. Way to go, Shelby! He gets a hundred bucks and a one-year subscription to my font club. Now it’s your turn to make a video using Chank Fonts… go! go! do it now! If we use your video we’ll send you a prize.  



CALL FOR ENTRIES: CHANK FONTS MOTION GRAPHICS
November 29, 2007, 4:42 pm
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Chank Co is looking for someone to help design some motion graphics videos displaying our fonts in action. As you are a smart designer, you should have lots of Chank Fonts installed on your system already. Do you have the know-how to make a YouTube-style video displaying your choice of any Chank Font in action? Do it up and send it over for me to see. If we use your video to promote our fonts, we’ll give you $100 cash PLUS a one-year subscription to Chank’s Font of the Month Club.  To get an idea of the kind of videos I’m talking about, check out this “Type Movies” playlist on YouTube. Something like this maybe:  



Mpls Art Greats in Charity Auction Friday, Nov 9
November 2, 2007, 4:57 am
Filed under: Artworld, Chank Art

Chank Art #12795: Border FlowersSome of the Twin Cities finest fine artists will be showing their contributions to a big charity event this upcoming Friday. The event is Pro Choice Resources 4th Annual Art 4 Choice, which will take place at the fancy new Graves hotel in downtown Minneapolis this Sunday. Featured artists on display include Chank Diesel, Michael Birawer, Terrence Payne, Tara Costello, Allen Brewer, Laura Drabant, the Rosalux gang and many more. This is a rare opportunity to purchase some great works of original art and help people in need at the same time.