Rosscott, Inc.

You live in NYC?  You like typography?  Do you like Helvetica, or do you think Aksidenz Grotesk is better (wait, do you think Aksidenz Grotesk happens when you need to change a baby’s diaper)?  Ok, I can’t do the fun intro thing today.

Here’s a great article via Systemic Kendra, all about the NYC Subway system getting on board with Helvetica as it’s typeface.

The resulting subway map, as one writer put it in 1968, was “a battlefield filled with typographers and color-experts locked in mortal combat.”

Oh no he didnt.  Link.

Few fun things, Systemics.  They’ve been piling up, and instead of doing the normal writeup we’re gonna go through them all quick and fast.

• Hilarious condom commercial.  Not exactly SFW but hilarious.  Be sure to check out the bloopers on the right.
• Playmobil makes a security checkpoint toy.  Yeah, really.  Be sure to check out the comments:

• I was a little disappointed when I first bought this item, because the functionality is limited. My 5 year old son pointed out that the passenger’s shoes cannot be removed. Then, we placed a deadly fingernail file underneath the passenger’s scarf, and neither the detector doorway nor the security wand picked it up. My son said “that’s the worst security ever!”. But it turned out to be okay, because when the passenger got on the Playmobil B757 and tried to hijack it, she was mobbed by a couple of other heroic passengers, who only sustained minor injuries in the scuffle, which were treated at the Playmobil Hospital.

  (Thanks, Ken!)

• This is some beautiful stuff on Etsy.  I tried to buy the calendar for a friend of mine but they sold out.  Sorry, friend.  I’m workin’ on it.
• Typography of the Toronto Subway.
• Junk Charts, a blog about charts with some cool imagery.
• My new internet homie Noah (same creative force behind the Skull A Day project) has started work on the League of Space Pirates.  Check it out, yo.

Just in case your love for our the new US President had been waning, here comes a font based on his own handwriting.  And as my coworker Kathi put it, “at $16 it’s a steal”.  Kerning?  YES WE CAN.  Link.

Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

Clicky for linky.

Yes, I’m finally going to have shirts!  The final designs will be posted (for preorder) later this week.  Meanwhile, here’s a glimpse at the almost final designs.  Start saving that allowance!  Click on the pic above to see them bigger.

Shirts are now officially available for preorder on the store page!  This is the first ever official Rosscott, Inc. / The System run of shirts, so help me make it count.  Currently for sale are both the Jimmy the Murderdog and HELL Vetica shirts.  They are $18.00 total right now ($15 + $3 shipping that’s included) so snatch them up while you can!  Soon they’ll go from preorder to just plain order, and the price will go up a bit (plus, I won’t like you as much).

Since this is the first-ever Rosscott, Inc. store, let me know if you run into any trouble (systemcomic@gmail.com).

I just changed over the paragraph style on the blog posts to Georgia, because Georgia is a badass font with a AMAZING italics.  Yeah, that’s right.

Look at how awesome this looks. Hells to the yeah! Even the numbers look great 1234567890 oooooh baby.

Yeah.  That’s right.