Not every journalist understands the difference between serif and sans serif typefaces. Dolly suddenly became a “modern sans serif”.

From: Bas Jacobs
Date: November 23, 2009 15:11:16
To: Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki
Subject: Bello goes freestyle II

He, for sure you remember ‘Bello goes freestyle I‘ right? Well, yesterday I spotted part II, while passing a social workshop for adolescents in Zutphen, named Het Dagelijks Bestaan. The handmade lettering on their roof caught my attention. I took a picture. Man on a ladder looked at me. Our conversation went somehow like this:

Man: He you, what are you taking a picture of?
Me: The letters on the roof. Do you know who made them?
Man: I did. Why?
Me: Do you know which typeface this is?
Man: Euhm… yes. Oh no, not right now. Do you?
Me: Yes, it’s called Bello.
Man: Ah yes, that’s it. Do you know who made it?
Me: I did.

Silence. Man left behind puzzled.

We received some Brasilian links from Uncle D about typographic makeovers. Mixing type and 3D-illustration, a nice example of the so called Illustrated Type movement.

Rodrigo Francisco at Behance
Rodrigo Francisco’s portfolio

Liza loves Snow Leopard
Months after her release Liza Pro finally works in TextEdit

We had a similar situation with Bello Pro. At the moment the typeface was released in 2004, the fancy OpenType features worked nicely in applications like InDesign and QuarkXPress, but not in applications which rely on the operating system, like TextEdit. Luckily half a year after we released the typeface, an updated version of OSX (10.4 / Tiger) finally supported the most important features in Bello Pro (for programs like TextEdit).

5 years later history repeats itself. At the moment of its release, our über-intelligent Liza behaved nicely in applications with a sophisticated OpenType support (Adobe CS, QuarkXPress, etc), but not in TextEdit. Let’s say that Liza’s IQ was too high for the operating system.

Meanwhile Apple released a new version of OSX (10.6 / Snow Leopard), which contains an update of the Core Text engine. This has an improved OpenType support, especially for contextual alternates. Not 100% yet, but at least Liza’s superlooper, t-topper and her pretty bold ‘out-of-ink’-feature finally work in TextEdit. Now: let’s all start designing using TextEdit!

From: Maarten Leenknecht
Date: July 15, 2009 9:54:11
Subject: Liza

Hi,
This weekend I was inspired by Liza while painting a wall in Ghent, Belgium.
Ik ben benieuwd wat jullie ervan vinden.
Bedankt om mij te inspireren!
Grtn, Maarten Leenknecht, De Predikanten

For our friends in India, Bulgaria and the rest of the world: saying ‘yes’ can actually mean ‘no’, ‘no’ could mean ‘yes’, depending on the tone of voice and gestures. Can something similar be achieved by a written word? Well, probably good authors will manage in a long text. But if you’re not a professional and still want to express a contradiction inside one written word? Yes, this is possible. Or maybe not?
Gollum decides. No, let Smeagol decide.

hi everyone,
as some of you might know, doug was nominated by aiga detroit to receive a 2008 aiga fellow award. in addition to several of us giving brief presentations i am asking that you or your studio consider recording a 15-60 second tribute speaking to doug’s contributions in education as well as being an international ambassador of graphic design. this tribute can be light-hearted or serious.
thanks and hope to hear from you.
regards, chad

Hey Chad, take this.

Hello. My name is Bello.
Illustration made for Underware by Rejane dal Bello.

Shoes for our friends of the Jubilator.