I've been working on a trilogy of animated shorts for Veer, and we just posted the second instalment, Ready, Typeset, Go!. You'll learn about things like kerning and font families, while lulled by the friendly drone of our narrator (who we sourced through VOX Talent). If you missed the first film, check out Our Fonts, Our Friends. The third is on its way!
Veer's creative team is closing up shop at year-end, but not before a few last feats of strength. The slideshow we made to showcase Ale Paul's Poem Script is headed for Typography Annual 2 — the January/February 2012 issue of Communication Arts. Behold terrible things set in lovely type, featuring my writing, design by Drew Ng, and the mechanical stylings of Mr. Stephen Peasley.
The ladies of Edmonton studio Woodward Design — Amanda Woodward and Kristin Gibson — launched their side project The Hee Haw Collective a couple months ago, and yesterday they decorated Edmonton with the first batch of posters created by local designers.
I'm not local or a designer, but I did get to participate from the comfort of my living room. Two of my Twitter outbursts were included in the mix, beautified by Amanda and Kristin themselves. See those below, then head over to the Hee Haw site to see all the posters.
You can put a lot of things on the internet before something goes viral. So here's the best thing until the next thing. Clockbusters is a game that Dan Parry and I created for Veer to showcase royalty-free stock photos. With 3 photo clues and 60 seconds on the clock, the goal is name the movie before time runs out. As of today, over 1.1 million people have played the game and its sequel.
A few hundred of those have commented online about there being no answer key provided — that was my call, folks. Answer keys are for babies and quitters, and you are neither! You are a champion! Pep talk over.
See some more of the game in my portfolio, or better, go play.
A little something I wrote to promote Laura Varsky's Lade Rene typeface.
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ANDERS J. SVENSSON is a propaganda machinist & part-time adventurer living in Calgary, Alberta, in Western Canada. He supports his wanderlust and wiener dog by working as a creative copywriter, lending gibberish, propaganda, and a cultivated brand of irreverence to businesses, agencies, and non-profits. |
October 24, 2011