Xalinat packaging

Contributed by Indra Kupferschmid

Source: http://www.factumdesign.com. License: All Rights Reserved.

From the Factum Design website:

“We were asked to design the package for Xalinat – a medicine used in Alzheimer treatment seen as an improvement at the level of the life activity and consists in the posibility to enjoy life almost like before the ill started.

Our aim was to create a distinct packaging in terms of visibility and memorability with high personality and less significance (interpretation), that gives to the viewer (patient or doctor) an optimistic feeling of better. The visual translates the meaning of life as ‘vibrations’ – a colourful stripe. Also, the stripe plays an optical role: it attracts attention upon it and enhances the package visibility on the shelf in order to be rapidly identified. The large white surface of the packaging highlights the kind of this medicine: reliable, honest, and based on its purpose. For the name of the medicine we chose the Meran typeface from Our Type.”


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Mergenthaler Linotype ad for Antique Olive

Contributed by Stephen Coles

Source: http://uandlc.com. License: All Rights Reserved.

Found in U&lc Vol. 2, No. 4, 1975. Some good-and-corny copywriting from Mergenthaler:

The best thing to happen to an olive since the martini.

Antique Olive Roman, Italic, Bold Roman, Black Roman, Light Roman and Compact Roman. Which is a lot of Romans for a French face.

Though the round shapes can look like olives, that’s not how this face got its name. It was made for Fonderie Olive in Marseilles. “Antique” was the French term for sans-serif, not “old”.


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Your favorite fl ligature font?

I’m thinking of making a business trademark image, and the most important word (”flow”) will start with ”fl”. What fonts do you think have the best ”fl” ligatures? I know this is a pretty broad question, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. (If anything, you could just suggest your favorite fonts that has the ”fl” ligature.)

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Karbid Book Giveaway – The Winners

Time is up to enter our competition to win one of 15 copies of the new Karbid: Berlin – From Lettering to Type Design!

Thank you for all of your beautiful and inspiring entries, we wish we could have given each one a prize, but here are the 15 images that really caught the eye of FF Karbid’s designer, Verena Gerlach:

Andrea Curtis

Andrea Curtis – Michigan, USA

Eero Antturi

Eero Antturi – Helsinki, Finland

Etienne Pouvreau

Étienne Pouvreau – Ocqueville, France

Felix Arnold

Felix Arnold – Walkringen, Switzerland

Florian Hardwig

Florian Hardwig  Berlin, Germany

Paul O'Rely

Paul O’Rely – São Paulo, Brazil

Nicolaskrizan Skovde

Nicolas Krizan  Skövde, Sweden

Georg Andreas Suhr

Georg Andreas Suhr – Westbengal, India

Martina Flor

Martina Flor – Berlin, Germany

Ralf Zeigermann

Ralf Zeigermann  Brussels, Belgium

Scott Maurer

Scott Maurer – Madison Wisconsin, USA

Peter Presseg

Peter Presseg – Vienna, Austria

Stephan Wilke

Stephan Wilke  Berlin, Germany

Slávka Pauliková

Slávka Pauliková  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Shtiliana Andonova

Shtiliana Andonova  Krumovo, Bulgaria

 

All of our lucky winners will be notified and can look forward to receiving this beautiful book by post.

Published by Ypsilon Éditeur in trilingual (French, English and German) format, the Karbid book is a text and pictorial archive telling the complete story behind Verena Gerlach’s typeface FF Karbid that also pays homage to the history of German lettering and the letter paintings of Berlin.

Once again thanks to all those who took part, it was fantastic to see what lettering in and around your city inspires you!

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