Nothing much to say about this years Kancils. Been an interesting year as many changes have been introduced especially in terms of judging. The typeface is AG Buch.
Kancil Call for Entries Poster above. Introducing the all new format of 10 Golden Kancils to be won this year.
Kancil Student Call for Entries Poster. The copy is a dummy. (Notice the huge margin on the left?)
Of course there are other permutations of the way the Kancils leap over one another. (Dummy copy again for the above) And finally, the website. Don’t forget to log in this Friday at midnight to view all the winning works! And good luck to all of you who hope to win something.
Probably an extension of my favor for British Design. Have combined it with Times New Roman, Sabon, Galliard and other old style typefaces. Possibly sometime ago, I stunningly tried to combine it with ITC Avant Grade; yes, I failed of course. You will need to be a pro typographer to do it.
And like many others, I do think its overused. Easily available on any computer running on either Windows or Mac platform, accessibility to the typeface further results in even more usage and some bad public examples. Some inappropriate usage as text, boring usage on ad’s and sometimes an eyesore on billboards.
I like it on book covers. I like it in large sizes on a small confined grid on a canvas. I like it as headlines, subtitles and quotes. I like it in capitals. I think if evenly spaced, it can be elegant and beautiful. And I love the black sheep of the family; the italic ‘p.’ I love the lowercase ‘g’ and think that ‘a’ is annoyingly addictive to look at. But all said in this paragraph, only if set in the hands of someone who appreciates it and has a good eye for it.
Other humanist sans typefaces like Agenda or FF Milo might have better consistency and beauty and more weights but I guess I’m sticking with the fact that Gill Sans has more authenticity. It would have been so much more exclusive if it hadn’t been overused widely.
My thoughts on Gill Sans extends beyond the sophistication of the typeface alone. I have an admiration for the complicated life of its creator, Eric Gill. Having to have read An essay on Typography and halfway through reading his biography, my admiration for the man simply developed a little further. Though I might not take his spiritual theologies as good advise sometimes. And of course the sexuality stuff he keeps mentioning about and repeatably shown in some of his work. Probably after completely reading his biography, I might change my mind on this.
Quite an interesting scene. I wish Figtree owns one of these things… (Just finished trimming some 100 posters and 200 cards so am kind of in an ‘envy this’ mode)
Seems to me sometimes you don’t really need an absolute knowledge in type to mix typefaces together. No superb type design here but simply amateurish mixtures of typefaces that simply becomes authentic overtime.
Daniel and me were walking into a room under renovation and found these words slowly deforming themselves into various forms of obscene words. How rude:
