Matteo Bologna of Mucca Design at CSCA

Special 4th Thursday Event, March 24th, 2011

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Italian-born Matteo Bologna credits a breakup with a girlfriend for leading him to his love of typeface design. For three months, he multi-tasked between grueling goodbyes over the phone and learning one of the first type software programs (available only in English, his second language).

Fast-forward 20 years and one cross-continental move, and he's the founder, president, and creative mastermind behind internationally acclaimed New York branding and design agency Mucca Design.

With energy, intellect, and quick wit, he's led the Mucca Design team in shaping brands like Adobe, Harper Collins, Random House, the Standard Hotel Restaurants in LA, and Target.

His work in design and typography has commanded the attention and accolades of AIGA, Communication Arts, Eye, Graphis, HOW, PRINT, STEP, The Art Directors Club, The James Beard Foundation, and The Type Directors Club.

Join CSCA on Thursday, March 24, to hear Matteo Bologna discuss what drives him to sweat the details of design and typeface development. (And while we're talking about faces, we might be so bold to ask about the incredible mustache he dons on his own.)

Very cool: Letterpress iPad App

About 2 months ago, I had the idea for this app running through my brain. The iPad is the perfect format for playing with type. No need to tie on a shop apron or cleanup the ink...

Seems someone else was thinking about it too. I will be installing it for sure.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/821242145/lettermpress-a-virtual-letterpress-on-your-ipad

Pinchflat Bicycle Poster Blow-out

Wild Goose Creative, in partnership with Yay Bikes!, Fulcrum Creatives, and Jeremy Slagle Design, announces a call for entries to a bicycle-inspired poster show called Pinchflat. Posters will be displayed and sold at Wild Goose Creative (2491 Summit Street, Columbus) and pinchflatcolumbus.com starting with a poster party on Saturday, May 14, 2011 and continuing through June 17.

All posters will be created by artists in Columbus or central Ohio. Artwork included in the poster show will encourage bike riding, celebrate the art and craft of bikes, or invite thought about bikes as an important way to get around Columbus. Pinchflat is intended to be a fun, creative, celebratory approach to cycling.

For a call for entries visit: http://pinchflatcolumbus.com/call.htm

 

God with us

I've never designed a tattoo before. I've been asked by many friends and others over the years and I've always declined. Mostly because I would rather leave that sort of thing up to the experts--there are a lot of amazing tattoo artists around. Also because it's very permanent. I mean, it's going on someone's body. It just seems a little scary.

But when a friend approached me at Christmas and asked me to give her a custom piece of type, I couldn't resist. Emmanuel means "God with us." Seemed appropriate for the Christmas season. She asked for a custom script face and something that looks hand-drawn and somewhat imperfect. So here it is. Hope you like it Cole.

I'll try to upload some photos and video of her getting inked. Stay tuned.

I started out with a pencil sketch and did the final with a waterbrush filled with fountain pen ink to give it a rough analog feel.

My work in a new book

Graphic Design Inspirations by Daab one HUGE book.

Seriously. It weighs 12.5 lbs, has over 700 pages, 12x12 cover and over 2.5 inches thick! It's so big that I comes with a carrying case and handle. It just may have it's own gravitational pull. I think I may have seen my miniature poodle orbiting it earlier today.

Aside from a couple pages of introduction, there is no other copy throughout, just 700 pages of inspiring work from around the world. You can get it at Amazon. Despite the $90 price tag, it does not qualify for free shipping due to its vastness.

There are a few projects in it by me and my friends. It's worth picking up a copy--just be sure to lift with your legs.