![]() Unlike previous font formats that required each style within a family to be a separate file, Helvetica Now Variable bundles the necessary DNA for every style into one tidy package. Helvetica Now Variable is everything Helvetica should be today." Moreover, it's just plain fun, with the potential to bring the good news of variable fonts to the masses. "This font gives designers the firepower they need - from greater creative freedom to typographic expression - to produce exquisitely fine-tuned typography and expressive, animated headlines. "The incredibly positive reception to Helvetica Now makes us proud to build upon this time-tested design even further," commented Charles Nix, Creative Type Director at Monotype. The variable font builds on the foundry's 2019 re-design and release of Helvetica Now to empower designers to blend weights (hairline to extra black), optimal sizes (four point to infinity) and new compressed and condensed widths for more design freedom and unlimited typographic expressions. ![]() Her work can always be found at the Glenn Green Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Monotype has released ' Helvetica Now Variable,' offering over a million new Helvetica Now styles in one font file. Yazzie makes prints, sculptures, paintings, and mixed media works. She has had over 500 group and solo exhibitions combined. She has been reviewed in Focus Magazine, Santa Fe, the Los Angeles Times, New Zealand Herald, and she is mentioned in Printmaking in the Sun by Dan Welden and Pauline Muir and The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multi Centered Society by Lucy Lippard. Her work is in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Print Collection, Providence, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Kennedy Museum of Art, Art Collection, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Rhodes University, Print Collection, Grahamstown, South Africa, to name a few. Yazzie has exhibited widely, both in the United States and abroad. Her visits to New Zealand, the Arctic, the Pueblos in the Southwest, and to indigenous peoples of Russia, these travels have been the impetus for continued dialogue about Indigenous cultural practices, language, song, storytelling, and survival. ![]() Yazzie uses her travels around the world to connect with other indigenous peoples. Her work is informed and shaped by personal experiences. Her work incorporates both personal experiences as well as the events and symbols from Dine culture. As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural, and political phenomena shaping the contemporary lives of Native peoples in the United States and beyond. Her work follows the Diné dictum “walk in beauty” literally, creating beauty and harmony. 18.Ībout the Instructor As a printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Melanie Yazzie’s work draws upon her rich Diné (Navajo) cultural heritage. This workshop is presented in conjunction with Nizhóní Way: New Works by Melanie Yazzie on display at McNichols Civic Center Building Sept. Participants should provide their own sack lunch. of 4 or more prints of finished 11” x 15” monotype prints that they will create during the workshop. This workshop is intensive, enriching and eco-friendly.Īll supplies will be provided, and attendees will take home a min. There is no press required for this type of printing. With this style of printmaking, options are endless and mixing and matching imagery has the potential open many new paths. During the monotype printing process, artists may decide to paint or draw back into their prints to create a mixed media piece. Using monotype as the primary technique, workshop participants will learn how to use Gelli plates to create their own richly layered compositions through one or more impressions and countless design variations. 21, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Melanie Yazzie, professor of printmaking at University of Colorado Boulder, will lead an intimate monotype printing workshop at McNichols Civic Center Building.
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