August 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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WatchIt has taken us a few days (10, to be exact) to get this blog post up and therefore, chances are, most anyone who reads this will already be well aware that we are 1/3rd of the way into our funding pledge drive for the typeface you all selected here on Kickstarter. That typeface is now getting around under the name “Sauerkraut”
If you have missed the opportunity to bask in the glory...
February 2011
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Retelling Exploits: Documentation
We’ve been pretty much non-stop since the new year, so forgive us for taking a while to get things up to these here inninits. I had a moment to document our recent PLATFORM exhibition the other week and have uploaded all of the images to our flickr. Please forgive the image quality, I may have made a slight oversight on the camera’s setting!
The Show will be up until the end of...
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Retelling Exploits
A series of linguistic explorations by People Collective. On display at PLATFORM from 4-28 February 2011. Opening this Friday 4th February at 6pm. PLATFORM is located in the Degraves Street Subway, under Flinders St. in the Melbourne CBD.
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Kickstarter Update
Just an update on the little type experiment from last year. As you may be aware, the third typeface was chosen by you to be our Kickstarter project. It’s since been named Sauerkraut, and the Kickstarter funding will begin from April 1st! We’re currently working on prizes and projects details, but watch this space for more info or follow us on twitter at @folkgroup.
October 2010
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Kickstarter Typeface Poll
Which Typeface?online surveys
Poll time! Let us know which of the three concepts you’d most like to see as a Kickstarter project (Typeface 01, Typeface 02, Typeface 03)!
Kickstarter Typeface 03
Below is a typeface that we have drafted especially for our little experiment here. We had been talking about making an “alternate-heavy, super tall sans” for a while and thought that this would be the perfect forum to try it out. As is the case with both the other typefaces we’ve posted the past few weeks, this one is in a very early draft stage. There are x-height issues, as...
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Kickstarter Typeface 02
Beagle is a typeface that we’ve been playing with for some time now. The initial sketches for it were done about 2 years ago, and while we made a start on it at the time, it has since sat unattended.
We currently have a rough character base traced up in illustrator which we recently used in Voiceworks as the display type for poetry headings. Although legible, this showed that the...
September 2010
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Kickstarter Typeface 01
Here are some scans from the project titles that Aaron & I created for the 2010 Next Wave Festival. Our first proposed typeface is derived from these styles and would utilize a bevy of alternates & glyphs as well as room for OpenType options. The proposed typeface would be an all-caps display face, with alternate styles, weights & italics. The final output would not have the...
Kickstarter Typeface Project
We’ve been talking about making a typeface for quite some time now, so after a bit of deliberation and some discussion with the folks at Kickstarter, we’re finally going to get things under way.
As well as being our first functioning typeface, this is also going to be a bit of an experiment. Our idea is to explore new methods in type creation, distribution and licensing using the...
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Aphids Spring 2010
We’re happy to announce the launch of the Aphids Spring 2010 program. We worked with Aphids to come up with a visual response to the theme ‘tropical elizabethan’ which was implemented across the festival program and the above animation.
The full program is viewable online, or available as a PDF download.
July 2010
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Next Wave Festival Club
Here’s a few shots from Colin and I setting up (and ‘DJing’ at) the Next Wave festival club for this year. Big thanks to Murray from Element Rigging for helping us with the fit out.
Forty-eight
The line up for 48, presented by Studio Pip And Co, has been anounced for the event later this month. We’ll be joining a great group of creative folk to give a 5 minute talk on a crossroad, whether it be a project, person or process, that has changed the way we work. The line up and ticket contact details are below.
Jonathon Bellew, Something Splendid, Laura Cornhill, Studio Binocular, Di...
June 2010
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SUPERMARKET
People Collective will be taking part in Kim Brockett’s SUPERMARKET project at the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces this Saturday 11am-4pm.
SUPER MARKET brings together artists and collectives to ply their superfluous wares in exchange for offerings from the public. By relying upon barter (the original method of consumption) and excluding currency, SUPER MARKET is an invitation to...
New Site, New Blog
It’s been a little time in coming, but we’ve finally got the initial version of our site up! We’re still working on the Archive and Typography sections, which will be added in the next week.
The site is built on the awesome Stacey CMS, a lightweight file based content management system which we really love using. We’ve also move the blog from Posterous over to Tumblr....