ZIGZAG Not Rounded – Volcano Type
ZIGZAG Not Rounded is an OpenType font designed by Benoît Bodhuin, published by Volcano Type.
It is a further development on ZIGZAG Rounded which was released in 2012.
ZIGZAG is a funny font family whose letters have four varieties each in order to multiply
expressions and attract the eye by breaking the rhythm of reading.
The variations oscillate between a hand-drawn design and a geometric or imaginative drawing.
Opentype’s function lets you choose between different variations of each glyph and contextual
variables allow to mix the styles.
ZIGZAG is on sale (50% off) till the end of March.
Slanted Magazine #20 – Slab Serif
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SLAB!
Slanted Magazine #20 – Slab Serif is entirely dedicated to the early 19th century born »serifenbetonte Linear-Antiqua,« broadly known as Egyptienne, Slab Serif, Square Serif or Mécanes outside German classification. Developing during Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, these typefaces fastly spread on advertising posters and flyers. Back in these days it was the main purpose of the slab serifs to attract attention by their strong visual expression. In this issue we want to bring back some of this (at least in Central Europe) rather gone attention to the often striking slab serifs.
Blue (Not) Mono – Volcano Type
Blue (Not) Mono is an OpenType font family designed by Jérémie Nuel, published by Volcano Type.
As a binary system, at the junction to two antagonist drawings, the Blue (Not) Mono typeface is an
hybrid between the monospace and the humanistic sans-serif families. Declined to several variants and weights: a true monospace and a proportional one, a roman and italic style, bold and the main purpose is obviously to maintain in the same time a calligraphic identity, and a computing legacy.
Slanted Magazine #19 – Super Families
Slanted #19 – Super Families hosts a great family party. In this issue we focus on large font families, and their family trees, displaying an amazing variety. They all have a large amount of weights that features an extreme range, giving a spectacle from Hairline to Ultra Black with Compressed to Extended. Relatives also come in Sans, Serif, Semi-Serif, Slab, Rounded etc.
We are pleased to present a number of readable essays and reports:
Unit Gothic & Uniform Set Gothic, wood type as precursor (David Shields Austin TX US), Über Koffer (Frank Wiedemann, Berlin, DE), Japanese Graphic Design: Not In Production (Ian Lynam, Tokyo, JP), On typographic superfamilies (Julia Sturm, Berlin, DE), Eine wie Keine, aber die für alle Fälle! (Maurice van Brast, Weimar, DE), Mr & Mrs Eaves: A Type Family (Emigre, Berkeley CA, US), Jenseits der Interpolation – Entwurf einer Schriftsippe mit Superpolator (Stefan Claudius, Essen, DE) as well as The Kegler Bros by Terry Wudenbachs (Buffalo, NY, US).
In this particular issue there are many wonderful family photographs:
Royal Families (thanks to Ken Johnston, Historical Corbis, Brooklyn NY, US), Princesses and Footbal Stars (Daniel Schumann, Erkrath, DE), Alison (Jack Radcliffe, Baltimore MD, US), Life on Both Sides of the Border (Joseph Rodriguez, Brooklyn, New York, US), Stranger Than Family (Matthew Avignone, Chicago IL, US), The Other Family (Nicola Lo Calzo, Paris, FR), A portrait of community life at Castle Tonndorf (Roger Hagmann, Blankenhain, DE), Salt & Truth (Shelby Lee Adams, Pittsfield MA, US), Caches (Sirin Simsek, Cologne, DE), Miner’s Families (Song Chao, Beijing City, CN), Portrait of a Family (Todd Danforth, Blackstone MA, US).
In the interview format 10 × 10, family experts gave answers to 10 questions – with Łukasz Dziedzic (Typoland, Warszawa, PL), Hannes von Döhren (HVD Fonts, Berlin), Peter Biľak (Typotheque, The Hague, NL), Christian Schwartz (Commercial Type, New York City NY, US), Nadine Chahine (Linotype, Bad Homburg, DE), Ian Party (swisstypefaces, Villette, CH), Erik van Blokland (LettError, The Hague, NL), Paul van der Laan (Bold Monday, The Hague, NL) and Yanone (Kromsdorf, DE).
Furthermore, we spoke with Albert-Jan Pool (Hamburg, DE) about the future of FF DIN and what he thinks about other DIN typefaces, Panos Vassiliou about his type foundry Parachute (Athens, GR), Andreas Frohloff and Ivo Gabrowitsch (fontfont, Berlin, DE) about the meaning of big type families for one of the most renowned international type foundries, Olaf Leu (Wiesbaden, DE) about the tasks of type systems, Thomas Marecki (Lodown, Berlin, DE / Blurb, San Francisco CA, US) about their publication “The Icons of Lodown,” Philippe Apeloig (Paris, FR) about his work and what inspires him.
Besides historic family portraits of Corbis, the eight page fold-out cover presents something really special: a family tree of the best type super families, compiled by Indra Kupferschmid.
Slanted Magazine #19 – Super Families
Editor: MAGMA Brand Design
Release: August 30th, 2012
Volume: 164 pages
Format: 24 × 32 cm
Language: English, German
Review at slanted.de: www.slanted.de/eintrag/slanted-19-super-families
Buy Slanted #19: www.slanted.de/shop/slanted-19-super-families
Subscribe to Slanted: www.slanted.de/abo
Mestizo – Volcano Type
Mestizo is an OpenType font family designed by Johannes König, published by Volcano Type.
Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America and Spain for people of mixed heritage or descent.
In some countries it has come to mean a mixture of European and Amerindian.
The font Mestizo is based on a strict grid system – but combines it with ethnic symbolism.
Six weights can be combined in various ways. Accius, Alerio & Amias display the basic geometric shapes,
Balbo, Belus & Borba represent the playful icons.
Slanted Magazine #18 – Signage / Orientation
Gate 18. Upstairs. 164 pages. Turn left. 24×32. Departure.
Slanted #18 – Signage / Orientation focuses on the ups and downs, the lefts and rights, the stops and go’s, the Kiss+Ride and many more. Featured are many extraordinary wayfinding and orientation systems with different levels of complexity and relevant Typefaces.
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We are pleased to present a number of readable essays and reports: The NYCTA and Unimark International (Paul Shaw, New York City, US), Typografie & Architektur (Tim Loffing, Dortmund), U8 (Anton Koovit, Berlin), Einer für alle, alle für einen – Orientierung & Identität am neuen Campus der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Erwin K. Bauer, Vienna, AT), iMapping – Visual Orientation in Personal Knowledge Space (Heiko Haller, Karlsruhe), Leserlichkeit von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum – eine Untersuchung (Florian Adler and Sven Neumann, Berlin), Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and ageing readers (Thomas Bohm, Leicester, UK), Wo bin ich? – Über Schrift und öffentliche Verkehrssysteme (Indra Kupferschmid, Bonn, Saarbrücken), Die Kunst der Desorientierung (Maurice van Brast, Weimar), Das Leid (Frank Wiedemann, Berlin) sowie Faith / Void Split (Ian Lynam, Tokyo, JP).
ZIGZAG – Volcano Type
ZIGZAG is an OpenType font designed by Benoît Bodhuin, published by Volcano Type.
ZIGZAG is a funny rounded font whose letters have four varieties each in order to multiply
expressions and attract the eye by breaking the rhythm of reading.
The variations oscillate between a hand-drawn design and a geometric or imaginative drawing.
Opentype’s function lets you choose between different variations of each glyph and contextual
variables allow to mix the styles.
Benoît Bodhuin designed this font in 2011/12 for the theatre Vivat.
Slanted Magazine #17 – Cartoon / Comic
Comics consist of a sequence of images (strip) that tell a story. In cartoons, the narrative point is condensed into one image. The Slanted issue # 17 – Cartoon / Comic is packed cover to cover full of naratives and typographic explosion!
Along with the New Year, the first Slanted issue of 2012 has a new face. A new oversized format, 16 more pages, and a more tightening sequence in content and layout to create more space for projects and activities.
Ken Johnston of Corbis (New York) dipped into the archives and retrieved a grotesque photo story of the atomic bomb experiments in a patriotically charged world brought to light – Doom Town, a dark comic, the best stories are real life experiences. Patrick Tsai (Tokyo) leads a photographic diary – Talking Barnacles, is a story in image sequences combined with very personal lyrics.
We are pleased to present a number of readable essays and reports: Motorscream Landscapes – Über die Schrift in der grafischen Literatur by Alexander Negrelli (Berlin), Geliebt und gehasst: Comic Sans by Rieke C. Harmsen (Munich), Manga & Graphic Design, Hands On und Where The Wild Things Were by Ian Lynam (Tokyo), PAT! BON! DOKAAAN! – Schriftgewitter und Lautmalerei in asiatischen Bildgeschichten by Steffen Zillig and Sohyun Jung (Hamburg), Something like Max & Moritz – Vom Erfinder des Comic by Tim Eckhorst (Kiel), A very subjective and casual comics overview from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222 by Paul Hoppe (Brooklyn NY), Survival is possible by Michael Schmidt (Munich) and Sans Comique by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin).
Furthermore, interviews with Nora Krug (Brooklyn NY), Dirk Rehm (Berlin), Alessio Leonardi (Berlin), Fred Smijers (Antwerp) and Matthew Carter (Cambridge) with insights into their living and working environments.
Also the appearance of the new magazine is marked throughout the comic book world. The eight-page fold-out cover glows in red and green on the outside, while the inside are comments of readers from our blog www.slanted.de, which were posted online last November.
Slanted Magazine #17 – Cartoon / Comic
Spring Issue
Editor: MAGMA Brand Design
Release: March 22nd, 2012
Volume: 164 pages
Format: 24 × 32 cm
Language: English, German
Get your own copy here: www.slanted.de/shop/slanted-17-cartoon-comic
Call for Entries – bright! & Poladarium 2013
We are looking for exciting projects for a new book about typography and art, “bright! – Typography between Illustration and Art” (published in summer 2012 at daab media) as well as for our successful instant photo tear-off calendar POLADARIUM 2013 (published at seltmann+söhne in summer 2012)!
bright!/ Submission open til March 23rd:
bright.magmabranddesign.de/
POLADARIUM 2013 / Submissions open til March 15th:
poladarium2013.magmabranddesign.de/
poladarium.de
Looking forward to your submission!
Gingar – Volcano Type
Gingar is an OpenType font family designed by Melle Diete, published by Volcano Type, the font label of MAGMA Brand Design.
Gingar, a warm and friendly headline font with Slab Serif touch. A good mixture of the playful and the classic. A proper font.
Included: swash-characters and ligatures. Gingar offers a wide range between Ultralight & Extrablack, 30 styles, Italics included.
Use the font for Fashion, Food, Wellness, Magazines, Corporate Design Projects and many more. You will rock it!
Special offer: 50% off until December 22nd, 2011.
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