The cold new movie about how to make a font in subzero windchills. Extreme typography!
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.)
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.
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.
What a thrill it is for me to see the Westsac freefont all over Neil Gaiman’s new Neverwear website. The famed author also uses the font on a whole slew of his books published in the UK by Hodder Headline, including the Stardust book that was the basis for the popular new movie. I’ve been a big fan of Neil’s work ever since the earliest issues of the Sandman comics way back in the day, so needless to say I’m quite proud to see one of my free fonts on so many of his books. Excellent choice! The Westsac font was created during a fontmaking workshop at the Sacramento Art Directors and Artists Club back in 2003.
My old standard Mister Frisky is selling jewelry on the streets of Greece. I have no idea who made this hacked Greekicized version of Frisky, but I’d love to get a copy of it for my files. I’ll be making my own Greek fonts soon, thanks to all the great knowledge I gained from a Greek fontmaking workshop at the Type Directors Club in NYC last week. That’s where Rich Kegler of P-22 was nice enough to show me this picture he took while he was in Greece.
Chank Fonts World Tour, next stop: LONDON! I’ll be in London Chank-font-spotting and taking my ales as they come to me Oct 15-20. Sneak previews of my upcoming YouTube video showing on my laptop while I’m there. Find us near Oxford Circus Friday afternoon, okay? Cheerio!
Oh what a thrill it is for me to see Chank Fonts on products that get displayed by the full palette in stores. That’s what greeted me in Office Max the other day. Crayola is using Chumley (aka Chauncy Fatty) for typographic brand-unification on their colored pencils and signature crayons. There was a whole, full palette of ‘em on display right in the middle of the aisle. That’s a bunch of crayons. Way to go, Chumley!
Somebody noticed the historical design references embedded the the Sam’s Club Organics Expo flyer, and was even nice enough to post some examples of original war-time propaganda posters using similar design tactics. No mention of Liquorstore, though. Does anybody know which agency designed this flyer?
