After an early lead in the voting, it came right down to the wire for the latest Lightboxing battle.
Although both fighters averaged a healthy 4 out of 5 score, Tom Huveners of Belgium tipped the balance over Katie Canada of Missouri by just a couple of votes.
Congratulations Tom! You’ll receive a $250 Veer gift certificate to spend on Veer Merch or whatever you like.
Stay tuned for the next Lightboxing event, and thanks to everyone who voted.
Image credit: Canadian girl
In honor of those celebrating Canada Day, we present some images keyworded in Canadian. Pretty great, eh? Please enjoy Veer’s fine selection of:
This image of a guy wearing a bunnyhug and a toque in a parkade, would be very Canadian if he wasn’t doing such an un-Canadian thing: breaking the law.Happy Canada Day.
Nice letterpress wine labels using Alejandro Paul’s Miss Le Gatees typeface, with refreshingly honest copywriting. Via Swiss Miss
Back online: the legendary “free font” site that tells it like it is. And check out those sponsors. (Slightly NSFW, for language.) Via Speak Up
Who will win the latest Lightboxing battle? It’s up to you. Vote for the best design on the theme of Midnight before June 30th.
Above: “#1” by Jason Tozer
What’s new and wonderful at the Creative Review blog? Let’s find out, shall we?
Lovers of the Helvetica film will be excited about another typography movie now in production, entitled simply Typeface.
Produced by the same team who brought us Hoop Dreams, Typeface explores the past and present of Wisconsin’s Hamilton Type Foundry, which in its 1900s heyday was one of the largest manufacturers of wood type. Now it’s a museum — but a living one, where design enthusiasts can actually use their more than 1.5 million pieces of wood type to set and print with.
Aside from its font freak appeal, Typeface will be an interesting case study about disappearing trades and technologies, and their place in the digital era.
While eagerly awaiting the trailer, check out the gallery, and help support the film’s completion with a donation.
Typeface, a film by Justine Nagan
Further linkage: see type designer Mark Simonson’s annotated museum slideshow, visit the official Hamilton Museum site, browse Veer’s digital versions (and descendants) of wood type.
Sweet archival footage of exercise, travel, and drinking games.
Mind-blowing ‘70s fashions on beautiful funky people.
New footage of (dead) fish and breathtaking scenery.
Gorgeous typographic end credits.
Apparently this short film is about Sweden. I would love it no matter what it was about. Update: it's in Swedish but it's about Norway, kinda.
Found on The Fat via motion designer Gustav Espenes, proprietor of the Klipp og Lim blog.
(Who wants to play name that typeface, for the end credits?)
On Tuesday I had the honor of accepting a Webby for Veer at their swanky awards gala in NYC. Veer won the Best Use of Typography Webby for our Type City feature.
If I had been allowed more than five words, I might have said something like, “This one belongs to Veer’s unbelievably talented creative team, in particular designers Justin LaFontaine and Christina Huber, Flash guy Dan Parry, and copywriter Mark Hamilton. Shout-out!”
Rambling further, I might have said, “And of course creative director Sheldon Popiel, and resident type guru and specimen-tweaker Grant Hutchinson, and editor Lori Burwash, and anyone else from Veer I might have missed, this is for you!”
Then, as applause began I would hastily add, “And I can’t forget to thank all the amazing type designers whose fonts make us look so good - Alejandro Paul, Rian Hughes, Jason Walcott, and so many others. You guys rock!”
But I couldn’t say all that.
Instead, my five-word speech was:
“Thanks, in 72-point Helvetica.”
(Read the rest of the speeches here.)
Where previous bouts featured snarky comments from Veer judges, now you decide the best design by rating and leaving comments.
See the design fisticuffs of Missouri’s Katie Canada as she bravely takes on Belgium’s Tom Huveners on the theme of Midnight. We’ll tally the votes on June 30.
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