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Showing posts with label typography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label typography. Show all posts
The Beauty of Type
Jarrett Heather's 'Labor of Love'
500-1000 hours for a 3.5 min clip! A little mix of Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and Toon Boom Animate and a whole lot of love helped Jarrett Heather produce this absolutely stunning piece of kinetic typography, Shop Vac (). Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
So Many Alphabets, So Little Time
Just when you thought you had your typeface recognition down, Steven Heller of The Daily Heller reminds us of the dying art of visual and auditory alphabetical communication in his article, Dits and Dahs.Lovers of Type, This One's for You
Hearts and flowers and candy and TYPE! This love day we're celebrating typography lovers with a type video that will make your heart skip a beat.
Topography in Typography
Exquisite and ingenious is the best way to describe these city maps by Axis and world maps by Typomaps....a must see for type lovers.
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog
Here's a fun game for the hard core typographer...or anyone who wants to be a hard core typographer - The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog (a Typeface Memory Game designed by ps.2 arquitetura + design) tests your recognition of different font types and teaches you a little about the typeface. Game night anyone?
Type Safari
"Go on a Type Safari" by James Felici takes you on a 'typographic trip' to countries all across the globe to view exotic specimen of the 'typographic kingdom' and seek out and enjoy an endangered species - hand-painted signage.
Freehand Fonts
When none of those pre-fab, "scripty", faux-handwritten fonts will do, go to YourFonts. For a mere $9.95 you can have a font created that is based on your own handwriting – within 15 minutes. ZACH SHIRLEY :: CONTRIBUTOR.
Type Trumps
Another great gift idea for the fellow designers in your life - Type Trumps designed by Rick Banks. Each card is designed to make the most of the particular font it features. Type Trumps players can battle it out using such statistics as year of design, the amount of weights, cost etc to win their opponent's cards. :: HEATHER ABBOTT, CONTRIBUTOR.
Typography Geography
Rhett Dashwood [cool name] of Australia has spent some spare time from Oct 2008 though April 2009 searching through Google maps of local areas for land formations, urban sprawl and buildings that resemble typographic letter forms. Clicking on the letters below his grid of the alphabet takes you to the exact locations of the letter in Google maps where you can zoom in or out and explore on your own. :: CREATIVE QUARTERLY, NO. 16
Flip Out
Flip out with your own FlipScript Ambigram that can be read right-side-up or upside-down. Use any name, combination of names or your imagination to create a custom script of your own. This site offers a variety of applications if you like your FlipScript - including t-shirts. :: UCDA DESIGNER MAGAZINE, SUMMER 09
IKEA + Verdana = ?
In case you have not heard, IKEA has changed its corporate type style from a form of Futura to the ubiquitous and Microsoft-created – Verdana. Grumbles and backlash over the change have been all over the web. TIME posted an article on the many reasons why the switch has customers and designers in an uproar worldwide. Vitaly Friedman, editor in chief of Smashing Magazine says that IKEA's former typeface reflected the brand's design philosophy and the switch creates a loss of originality and credibility. On the opposing end, Christopher Simmons of Advertising Industry Newswire says that IKEA has built a great brand worldwide and are listening to their core market (along with the economy) by switching to a type style that speaks to "young adults buying their first EXPEDIT, JAVNAKER, or KVART, who have more experience reading their iMac screen and MySpace page than they do reading the New York Times..." The question remains for the switch– business savvy or type travesty? Will the IKEA type style change become the New Coke? ZACH SHIRLEY :: CONTRIBUTOR
When Bad is not Good
Please step away from the Mac with your hands up! This link leads you directly to the Design Police where you can download your own Visual Enforcement Kit to place fellow designers under citizen's arrest if necessary. With commands such as "Kern this!", "this type has been bastardized", and "WIDOW" placed in label sized cutouts, anyone can become an officer of design law. JORDAN WITT :: CONTRIBUTOR.
Famous for Free Fonts
Ray Larabie used to give his fonts away for free. Now, as the head of Typodermic foundry, his fonts are some of the most popular of MyFonts libraries. Without brushes, sketches or pencil, Larabie begins his craft on the computer - with a trackball. Read the full interview and take a look at his creations. GIGI GREGG :: CONTRIBUTOR.
Don't be a Hater
I never stopped to think about the person who invented one of the most despised and ridiculed typefaces. But Vincent Connare, as the creator of Comic Sans, appears to have accepted his fate and has a good time with it. Here he is performing a standup routine about his infamous typeface at ROLFthing in New York. Also a great article on him in the Wall Street Journal and more on his blog. Thanks to Kate Hogan for contributing.
Much More than Doodles
For a recent issue of Los Angeles, art director Joe Kimberling collaborated with Marian Bantjes to create the cover. The result is a notebook cover filled with doodles done entirely in ballpoint pen inspired by a creative, but bored high school student (source: Creative Quarterly Magazine, No. 13). The most incredible example of ballpoint pen work I have ever seen in person was a huge work on canvas by Andrei Molodkin [20' x 8.5'] done completely in blue ballpoint pen at Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York. Does anyone know of any other artists/designers who use ballpoint pen? How about a typeface created from this?
Typographic Posters
A second installment from Monica Miller's list of killer links takes us back to Smashing Magazine for an article on Breathtaking Typographic Posters. These examples illustrate the elastic qualities of type and the numerous ways it can transform and transcend.
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