This must be the best news today: The release of the FF Real Superfamily by FontFont. FF Real began as the voice of Erik Spiekermann’s biography Hello, I am Erik, (reviewed in SNDS Magazine 4, 2014, p. 28-29) as his personal and efficiently beautiful revival of Helvetica – or as FontShop phrases it the design …
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The sweet smell of success
Editor’s column from SNDS Magazine no. 2, 2015: Do not try to win awards. Do not try to follow fashion. Be true to your subject and you will be far more likely to create something that is timeless. That’s where the true art lies. – Paul Arden* Although you should not create just to win, …
SNDS Magazine 1, 2015 is out
The first SNDS Magazine of the year is on its way to the printer. Take a look in this web version at all the great content we have put together for you. The cover story is a very personal story by John Bark and a project by him and his colleague Charli Kasselbäck, in the …
Embrace the visual format
Editorial from SNDS Magazine no. 4, 2014 We believe there is nothing social about online social networks, so get out from behind your screen and get to a live event, with real people, real communication, real beer, and real creative fun.” – www.pechakucha.org Visuals can be many things. In the previous issue of SNDS Magazine, …
The aesthetic value of boredom – SNDS Magazine 3, 2014
I like living, breathing better than working … my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it’s a sort of constant euphoria. – Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) When the French artist Marcel Duchamp exhibited a mass-produced urinal in 1917, he shocked …