http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com The Blog of Michael Doret Wed, 12 May 2010 20:04:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our new URL, effective immediately is: http://www.alphabetsoupblog.com Please add this as the new replacement bookmark. New posts coming soon! http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=795 Just up on Veer, this all-inclusive collection of my fonts is on sale at 30% off the total of what they would cost if purchased individually. Veer's special promotion will be ongoing until the middle of May. http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=788 SignQuest was the company that RoadStoves had recommended to "wrap" the truck with the graphics I had designed. They produce large scale banners and signs as well as vehicle wraps. One interesting project they were recently involved with was wrapping the Hollywood Sign for the "Save the Peak" campaign. The ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=708 Due to my inability of being able to get good photographs of the completed Canter's truck, I'm holding up posting the final chapter in this saga. I hope to be able to get some better shots by the end of this week. If not I'll just post what I've got.Thanks ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=769 Belgian designer and writer Yves Peters has been posting his comments and critiques about the winners of the TDC² 2010 Typeface Design Competition, and has finally reached the Display Type category—the one in which Deliscript was selected. While Yves' comments are considered and thoughtful—and with regard to Deliscript were for ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=749 While they were in print, the three volumes of Eric Baker and Tyler Blik's classic Trademarks series (which together sold 60,000 copies) were the authoritative books of logo design by decade. I had the distinct privilege of designing the covers for the first two. Many is ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=744 Although most of the food trucks are similar in appearance, many contain details that slightly alter some of their proportions. So it became necessary for me to visit the Road Stoves truck depot and to take pictures of the truck that would be closest to the one that Bonnie would ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=683 Recently I had a strange (and kind of wonderful) confluence of circumstance—combined with a smattering of coincidence and random luck. It all started right here in this blog over a year ago when I started sharing my thoughts about creating my new font Deliscript. In the posting I mentioned how ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=666 I recently contributed an ampersand design to the Font Aid IV project to help raise funds for Haitian earthquake relief. The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has just announced the release of “Coming Together”, a font created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=636 I was extremely excited to learn recently that my Deliscript font family (Alphabet Soup's major font project of 2009) was chosen by the Type Directors Club to receive their prestigious "Certificate of Excellence in Type Design" in the display fonts category for their TDC² 2010 Typeface Design Competition. Deliscript ... http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/?p=619