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A legendary font treatment from Peter Saville

TI's love for Peter Saville knows no bound and if you're prone to spending hours just roaming through a forest of fonts then you'll love btinternet.com/. It shows you the basic tools Saville used in building the fantastic imagery of those New Order and Joy Division album covers. All hail an incredible design resource.

Faunts: High Expectations/Low Results : Instant Classic: Very Cinematic

5 reasons why TI is living for Faunts, right this minute:

1.They handle big melodies and rising keyboard pads that sound vaguely 80's without being TRAGICALLY 80's.
2.This new electronic/ambient bend is working!Bets on that Sofia Coppola's is bound to cop tracks from M4 for her next ironically hip film trip.
3. They hail from Edmonton Canada which is also hometowm to TI's signature model of the season: Ms Meghan Collison
4.The name sounds like you smashed the words fauns and fonts together. Imagine what design god Peter Saville could have made of that !
5.TI discovered Faunts off Mass Effect, the XBox 360 game.Programmers with taste. Hope rises.

Peter Saville's legendary Mayfair pad. The "woman" is a live in plastic mannequin

Some of Marc Atlan's Greatest Hits

From I-phones to limited edition Nikes, why has design become this much of a market force? Is it that we're experiencing an on-going visual evolution of contemporary culture in the same way we are under-going a technological revolution? I'm not trying to write a master's thesis. (Part of the discipline of The Imagist for me is to learn to be...succinct). I'm just trying to figure out how the hell the whole world got to be so design sensitive. When did American product packaging start to overwhelm its content? To personalize the issue a little bit... I was out out to dinner last night with a pal from an ad agency, when the subject turned to Fabien Baron and his powerhouse agency Baron and Baron. Its not a company anymore it seems.Its a brand in itself, if you'll pardon that dirty word..."brand".
Baron you know from the firm's traditional image management of magazines : Paris Vogue, the 90's Harper's Bazaar- which obviously I've been looking at a LOT- Interview magazine, Arena Homme +, as well as fashion ads -most notably Calvin Klein. We gossiped a little bit about the influence Le Baron and Karl Templer now had over the direction of Calvin, down to the models, in which that team seems not to be as personally invested in. Certainly not the way Calvin the man invested in Kate Moss and Brooke Shields and now no girl or boy for Calvin is allowed to be a bigger story than the clothes.