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Font Aid IV: Ampersand Entries
Posted by francis bold in
24 Jan 2010 — 1:50pm
24 Jan 2010 — 1:50pm
For those who have contributed to the Font Aid IV Project, I thought it would be cool to get a cheeky preview of what you lovely people submitted.
Its not necessarily a crit, just a place to see what different styles and variations you come up with. Feel free to comment how you wish tho.
I went for a simple, circley, wiggly, snowman style :)
And off course what a great thing the Font Aid team are doing to raise money for this tragedy. Good to know there's so many caring people out there.
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28 Jan 2010 — 3:36am
On behalf of YouWorkForThem, best of luck.
28 Jan 2010 — 4:22am
Here goes ...
28 Jan 2010 — 6:13am
"but the internet-voice inside my head wants to say something witty and inappropriate about safety-belts & segregation... "
@brock
Huh? I don't get it.
28 Jan 2010 — 7:32am
Michael, very nice. Make the drop more tear-like?
hhp
28 Jan 2010 — 7:56am
this is my first post here, too.
my contribution:
28 Jan 2010 — 8:45am
I just sent this, I hope it helps.
The PNG turned out a little flat at the bottom.
28 Jan 2010 — 10:16am
Here's my 2 submissions!
H O P E 4 H A I T I !
28 Jan 2010 — 10:19am
Hope it will help!
28 Jan 2010 — 11:18am
My contribution:
28 Jan 2010 — 11:44am
Theo, that's beautiful.
Viktor, now that's what I'm talkin'bout.
hhp
28 Jan 2010 — 12:39pm
Our contribution:
28 Jan 2010 — 1:12pm
Looks good, Elias!
28 Jan 2010 — 2:08pm
Wow! Very high level here. This is my proposal. :)
Lucky to all.
28 Jan 2010 — 5:01pm
So many beautiful forms! Here is mine.
28 Jan 2010 — 7:02pm
28 Jan 2010 — 7:27pm
or
28 Jan 2010 — 7:37pm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
from the Fontry...
28 Jan 2010 — 7:43pm
Redbot Supports Haiti
28 Jan 2010 — 8:19pm
Here's a second one from me. Starting point was a seismogram-like wave.
28 Jan 2010 — 8:43pm
hi
here's one of my submissions
28 Jan 2010 — 9:10pm
& my ampersand...
28 Jan 2010 — 9:42pm
Aw, my first post! Here are my two - I'm only submitting the first one though, the cleaner one. The more calligraphic version... yeah, not so simple and clean as requested. But I have a tendency to overdo it. Always. ;)
~ Laura
28 Jan 2010 — 10:13pm
Those are lovely Laura - welcome to Typophile.
pbc
29 Jan 2010 — 12:06am
I made this by using the pattern:
29 Jan 2010 — 3:06am
my ampersand
29 Jan 2010 — 5:21am
29 Jan 2010 — 6:54am
Quite a good one, Wolfgang!
29 Jan 2010 — 9:46am
Howdy Folks - Here's another design I've been playing with.
29 Jan 2010 — 12:41pm
29 Jan 2010 — 1:36pm
Very nice work, everybody! Here is my monoline ampersand:
29 Jan 2010 — 3:20pm
Here is mine. So many great entries. My is more a grid based icon. Love seeing the community come together.
29 Jan 2010 — 4:03pm
Now that the font is done, lets make a Poster for charity too! :)
29 Jan 2010 — 4:52pm
My little grain of sand for the cause.
29 Jan 2010 — 6:51pm
Here's mine, finished with more than two hours to spare! :-)
hhp
29 Jan 2010 — 9:12pm
Thanks everyone! We have close to 400 participants. The font is coming together very nicely. I'll send out an update as soon as we have more information to share. If all goes well, we hope to have the font for sale by the end of the week.
Michelle
29 Jan 2010 — 11:18pm
Brilliant, Hrant! I also like the one by Anderson Maschio a lot, very "Asian-fusion".
30 Jan 2010 — 1:39am
great work everyone!
hrant, nice one.
30 Jan 2010 — 1:55am
A great, and fun project - wonderful to see all different creative kinds of work!
Here's one of my contributions.
/Mathias
30 Jan 2010 — 4:24am
30 Jan 2010 — 6:02am
Very seismic, Hrant! :-)
30 Jan 2010 — 10:36am
Fabulous variety. Here's my very humble design:
30 Jan 2010 — 10:45am
Here ya go type geeks!
30 Jan 2010 — 12:15pm
Nice one from the heart Andrea!
30 Jan 2010 — 4:00pm
Missed the deadline, sadly, but I had worked on this guy.
30 Jan 2010 — 5:03pm
Thanks everyone! This font is going to be amazing. We had 379 people submit designs from 37 different countries.
Chank Diesel is doing an amazing job behind the scenes putting the font together. The font will be sold for $20 (same as Font Aid III) through several different font distributors. We’ll announce which distributors once the contracts and plans are finalized.
All money raised will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to help with their work in Haiti.
The SoTA board is overjoyed by the response to this project. We hope many of you will join us at our annual conference being held this year in Los Angeles, California at the end of August (www.typecon.com). We also encourage you to become a member of SoTA to help support projects such as Font Aid (http://www.typesociety.org/memjoin.html) . SoTA is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers.
Thanks again! You guys are amazing!
Michelle & the SoTA board
1 Feb 2010 — 4:50am
My contribution
3 Feb 2010 — 2:55am
I couldn't decide on one direction for the design, so submitted two. They can use one, the other or both.
3 Feb 2010 — 7:53am
3 Feb 2010 — 2:13pm
here's mine:
A bit bland, but hopefully useful, and adding to the usefulness of the for-sale "typeface". ;)
5 Feb 2010 — 10:20am
my ampersands!