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Today’s Classic: Orestes Pursued by The Furies

1. By William Adolphe Bouguereau (1862)

2. By John Singer Sargent (1921)

3. By Franz Stuck (1905)

Julie Mehretu - Mogomma: Part I (2012)

Fallon Organized Neatly

Shentox by Emtype Foundry.

During a visit to London in 2008 I fell in love with the square font used on the British car number plates. I was immediately inspired to start working on this font and have been developing it intermittently ever since. Several more trips to London and the project evolved before it finally took off and became Shentox. Despite the starting point being inspired by simple, everyday car plates, the font soon evolved into something fine and very rich in detail. Even though the square genre is very restrictive, Shentox is a highly legible contemporary font with a full range of weights, useable not only as a display family for headlines and posters, but as a distinct, clean font family for branding and general editorial use (Especially magazines). It has been carefully drawn paying extra attention to the details, high end finishes that makes Shentox a safe font for use in large scale work. For example, the curves of every individual corner have been adjusted character by character to avoid the common problems encountered with square fonts (Eg. darker corners between weights or a visually inconsistent radius between the Upper and Lowercases as a result of copy/paste). Shentox italic, which has a 12 degree slant, has been corrected to avoid distortion when slanted. The radius of the upper-right and lower-left corners are more pronounced, giving it a more fluid Italic feel. Shentox is available in Open Type format and includes ligatures, tabular figures, fractions, numerators, denominators, superiors and inferiors. It supports Central and Eastern European languages. This type family consists of 14 styles, 7 weights (Thin, UltraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold) plus italics.

Audrey Hepburn by Ruslan Khasanov

Sagmeister & Walsh   |   http://sagmeisterwalsh.com

"I have lived on three hundred dollars a month and spent thirty thousand over the same time span with little perceivable difference in happiness. My overall well-being seems to exist largely independent from my income. We produced the piece on the facade of a casino in Linz, Austria. Our direct client, Martin Sturm from the O.K. Centrum, had the unenviable task of negotiating with the management of Casino Linz, who were (understandably) reluctant to see their entire building wrapped in black and stating that money wouldn’t make their customers happy.

As viewers walked down the main pedestrian zone in Linz, they first noticed only the gigantic word Money printed seven stories high on the pitch-black casino. Only as they passed the building and looked down the side street did the rest of the maxim reveal itself.”

Sagmeister & Walsh is a NYC based design firm that creates identities, commercials, websites, apps, films, books and objects for clients, audiences and ourselves.