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Pentagram 2008 Typography Calendar Now Available

Pentagram’s 2008 calendar features typefaces designed by Matthew Carter.

Kit Hinrichs has designed Pentagram’s 2008 Classic Typographic Calendar using twelve typefaces designed by typographer Matthew Carter including Walker (originally designed in 1995 for the Walker Art Center), Snell Roundhand (a 1966 revival of 17th century English writing master Charles Snell) and Galliard (a 1978 anthology of Roman and Italian styles of French punch-cutter Robert Granjon). “I wanted to bring a new awareness of typographic design through this calendar,” said Hinrichs. “Typefaces are pervasive in our daily lives in everything we read and see around us and yet most people are oblivious of them or the circumstances in which they were created. We can gain a new perspective on our world by studying the origin of typefaces. I hope the calendar will encourage a new sensitivity to the importance of typeface usage and the work of Matthew Carter.”

The calendar is available in two sizes, a supersize 33-by-22 inch version suitable for wall hanging and a smaller 18-by-12 inch version appropriate for desk use. Both versions are available in the US and UK at kenknight.com. The price of the supersize calendar is $36 and the smaller desk and wall calendar is $22. (Prices do not include shipping.)

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“Dorogaya” Magnetic Calendar

This stunning concept has been very successful on Behance and you can probably see why. Not only easy to use but placed in the most perfect of places; on the fridge as it is more often than not the first stop in the morning!

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TypeOff

Typodarium 2009: The Typodarium brings daily typography inspiration, the first tear-off calendar with 365 different fonts—bread-and-butter types and typography gimmicks, character sets and punctuation, old masters and new wild fonts, favourite fonts from across the world on your wall. The front page, which is classic and functional, shows the date and on the reverse are background and details, designers and reference sources. In this way, every day becomes a typography day and some calendar pages become a font shopping list.

The typography calendar was planned and designed with the Berlin designer Raban Ruddigkeit and is the first publication by Magma with the well-known Mainz publisher Hermann Schmidt.

The following type designers and founders are included in the calendar: 2Rebels, Avoid Red Arrows, bp Foundry, Caketype, Canada Type, Cape Arcona, Christian Schwartz, Coma AG, Cubanica, ds Type, Dutch Design, Dutchfonts, eps51, Font Bureau, Fontfarm, FontFont, Fountain, Hubert Jocham, Hula+Hula, Kenn Munk, Lazydogs, Lieberungewoehnlich, Lion&Bee, Magma Brand Design/VolcanoType, Mark Simonson, Martina Hartmann, P22, Parachute, Peter Brugger, Pfadfinderei, Primetype, Smeltery, Sparkytype, Subtitude, Subcommunication, Typecuts, TypeOff., TypeTogether, Typetype, Typonauten, Typotheque, Underware, urw++, Verena Gerlach, Xplicit, and Yanone.

Typodarium 2009
365 fonts by 50 foundries and designers.
368 pages, each 8.5 x 12 cm.

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