7 posts tagged portland
@RistrettoRoast #portland #typogrpahy
Female Barista: “Have you seen that cart on Alberta called Breakfast Lunch Today?”
Male Barista: “Yeah. Have you eaten there?”
Female Barista: “No way! Have you seen the typeface they use!”
Me: “Nice! …disqualifying them because of a bad font.”
Female Barista: “Well if your not going to put any effort out, they don’t want my business.”
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Made my morning.
GREATER PORLTAND | My Greater Portland Logo Design as adapted to video by Sockeye Creative, accompanied manifesto by Jim Carey at North. Creative Direction by Jerry Ketel
More about @ http://greaterportlandinc.com/
My unreleased font family called Portland is featured in Plazm 30. Seeing that the font isn’t finished, I had a momentary hesitation imagining it used in the raw state that it will appear. I have already made changes and am contemplating a few more big ones. That’s one of the things that makes it special though. It’s use at this stage of it’s evolution makes it a time capsule. I have been designing Portland for over 6 years now and it keeps evolving. I am contemplating releasing new versions constantly, like person it grows and evolves and is never quite the same – counter intuitive to font design conventions, I know… but I have never had much use for convention.
Read on and see samples of Portland in action on my studio blog
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