Type Director's Club

Type Director's Club released the winning entries of their 2008 competition:

I have always liked the way the arabic alphabet looks.

Fondo looks really fresh and clean.

In more font news, the font used in Barack's "Change We Can Believe In" campaign materials is called Gotham.

The font was designed by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones for GQ Magazine.

In their words, "GQ had a dual agenda of wanting something that would look very fresh, yet very established, to have a credible voice to it." Here is part of an interview with them in the documentary Helvetica: