The final build for "Insignificant Sites of Mexico," contracted by P.K. Langshaw of Concordia University for the Logo Citites Seminar, is live at my portfolio.

There's been talk of continuing the project towards the end of this summer, but for the time being, I'm presently bogged down with the Acumen Marketing build. (Which should be concluded in about two weeks.)

Once that's out of the way, I'll be starting work on the Villainess redesign, which supervillainess and I have been conceptualizing for about a month now. (This is actually a big deal, because I've been afforded an astonishing amount of creative license for the rebrand, the website and the company's livejournal - villainess_soap. Moreover, I am so excited for this project I could wee myself.)

I've been trying to find a way to describe what we'll doing, and the best I can come up with is "Post-Apocalyptic, Neo-Victorian Industrial Romantic."

(Right up my alley, in other words.)

Check out their products, if you get a chance. I fully support Brooke's work, and especially her handmade soaps. (I use them myself, and have been for two years now, which makes this project all the more appealing.)

There are few things I love more than type - or rather, shopping for type. And you know, it's okay to hoard all the Emigre fonts you can get your hands on, and to lust after 2Rebels, but the greatest finds are frequently the most obscure, unknown and project-specific (so they can be used exclusively for one particular body of work.)

I was rifling around for a sans serif to be used for the LogoCitites "In Significant Sites of Mexico" build, and after exhausting the resources at fonts.com, I came up with exactly what I wanted (madam_minnie - this might interest you. It's for the same project I'd asked you about a few days ago when looking for a recommendation.):

Binary ITC Light by Mauricio Reyes:



"ITC Binary reflects the conflict of varying cultures experienced by designer Mauricio Reyes. Born in Mexico City trained in London and now living in the Washington DC area Reyes explains that ITC Binary “blends the native styles of Mexican lettermaking the traditional style of European type design and the futurism of the new American and Dutch type schools.” Although originally conceived as a display face once Reyes added the lowercase to the semi-serif face he realized they worked well together and could both be used for body copy." (Fonts.com)

The really sexy thing about this face is the fact that it dwells somewhere in between serif and sans serif, but the reference to blackletter all but screams when you drop the point size to 11 or 12 pt.


I'm still neck-deep in the navigation for the site, so I really have nothing to post until I start breaking into the flash and optimizing later today. Deadline's tomorrow, I should mention.

(Was that a sweat drop? Who likes working under pressure? Ha ha ha.)