Win Your Copy of 8Faces #2
UPDATE: Winners have been announced!
Star designer and type enthusiast, Elliot Jay Stocks continues his exploration of typography and its custodians in his 8 Faces Project. 8 Faces #2 hit the virtual shelves in November and like Volume 1, sold out rapidly.
(mt) sponsors 8 Faces because of the project’s creative exploratory approach and to a more selfish end… we get a box of special, early access copies delivered right to our office.
It’s wrong to hog the critical knowledge and visual treats which make up 8 Faces, so we’re giving away 5 copies…
How to Win:
In the spirit of 8 Faces, imagine you could only use one typeface for the rest of your life. Tell us what that typeface is and why. The best selections and most creative reasons will win. Feel free to include links to amazing examples of your favorite font in action.
- Comment below this post with your font choice and your reasoning behind that choice.
- Get your comment in by 3pm (PST) Friday, December 17th.
- Tweet: “I want to win a copy of the sold out @8Faces #2 from @mediatemple http://mdtm.pl/e185qN”
- The expert (mt) Marketing panel will ritualistically sort through your comments and choose!
Winners will be announced right here on Friday by 5pm Pacific time. Good luck!
And the Winners are…
- Hunter Hastings
Museo Sans. It can be clean and professional, or playful and vibrant. It can be used in large bold headers, or clean tiny text. It’s purely friendly. - Toni Kukurin
Garamond. Because it’s the Chuck Norris of typefaces. Because it can roundhouse kick you in the face if you’re not careful in using it, but it’s also always there to help. Because it’s easy to read. Because it’s versatile. Because even your regular school paper can look wonderful and unique with Garamond. - Katwo Puertollano
Akzidenz Grotesk is the most dangerous sounding name in the family of Typography and also my favorite. It’s sexy deep inside (we know how its strength lies beyond it being condensed or fat), it’s practical when it wants to be and elusive when it just wants to get stuck in front of Leo DiCaprio’s arms in movie posters. It’s the typeface that never gets insecure of Helvetica and never had to prove herself (yes, I’m making AG a she) even if the very elegant Gotham is sweeping our eyes towards more rotund curves. AG is the Meryl Streep of typefaces – consistent, hardworking and looks great without botox. - Chris Johnson
Gotham. Due to it’s geometric structure, the font gives an everlasting voice of trust and manages to maintain a fresh look. This makes for great call-outs and sub-titles while varying the font-weight between words. The reason for choosing this versus the typical helvetica is because the typeface is still readable when used for body copy. Now if we could bend the rules just a bit, I’d love to use ITC New Baskerville STD Italic (Ampersand Only) with Gotham Bold (uppercase). So beautiful. - Joe Golike
I’m loving FF Dagny. A friendly Helvetica with just enough personality.
Congrats!!!
8Faces Magazine is a bi-annual magazine featuring some of the world’s best designers. The magazine has one core question at its heart — if you could only use eight typefaces for the rest of your life, which would you choose? — and poses this (and many others) to eight leading designers from the fields of web design, print design, illustration, and of course type design itself.
