Oh. my. goodness. My new favorite- Grady McFerrin. His Website.
posted by Diana
March 31, 2009
March 29, 2009
Periodic Table of Typefaces
At first I thought this was just a random gimicky thing someone with too much time created. But while it clearly has nerd written all over it, I think it's kind of cool and potentially helpful. It groups typefaces by similarity, popularity, etc. Read more about it here.
posted by Diana
Fontfabric
fontfabric.com
posted by Diana
They've thought of everything
I guess they've thought of everything. You can download the "44th President" from insignedesign.com. The site developed it based on many sources and his left-handed writing style.posted by Diana
March 27, 2009
Sculpture!
I really like this sculpture piece, I couldn't find a pic of the entire thing... Anyway, looks like metal letters attached to a pipe? I like the juxstoposition in space. By Emily.
March 26, 2009
Type Logos
The above type logos are for Eight, Corporate Communications Company, USA Network, and Sandhurst Shrubs respectively.
-Erik
March 24, 2009
Type Furniture
Now you can let type take over your entire life. I'm especially digging the metallic, movable type drawer table.-Erik
JPEGS!
This has nothing to do with typography, but it relates to something we talked about last semester, so I thought some of you might find it interesting... It's a clip that shows how image quality goes down as a result of jpeg compression. Probably don't need to worry about saving your file 600 times, but whatever. Check it out if you're interested.
March 19, 2009
Experimental Jetset
In their work, Experimental Jetset try to reinterpret the concept of modernism in frequently personal ways, often referring to counter- and rock culture. Their main subject is the material dimension of the designed object: the way in which we are shaped by our material environment, and how we, in turn, shape our material environment. This also explains their personal definition of graphic design: 'Turning language into objects'.
posted by Ashley
More interesting finds...
I think the shadow one is great! This would have been awesome for our last project when we created the type and photographed it... I love the shadow on the wall with the sculpture in the foreground. There is so much depth! by Emily.
Death Cab for Cutie Ad
This ad is currently circulating in Vitamin mag and other Minneapolis publications. I really love how striking it is! The colors, patterns, and placement of letters are very nice. It seems to have a "handmade" sort of crafty look, which I really like... by Emily.
March 17, 2009
Designed by W. Bradford Paley. This calendar was designed to allow easy travel conflict spotting (since you can circle contiguous days with no weekend breaks), and to let people mark with one or two words the more important events during the year. Full-Sized PDF.
-Erik
March 15, 2009
http://filmtheblanks.blogspot.com/
a life without type...at least in movie posters...interesting experiment...phaydara
ordinary extra
cool idea...check out some more of her work here:
http://henriettaswift.com/
...phaydara
water fountain
what will they think of next? the top video has type and image in it...nothing recognizable other than the images but impressive nonetheless!
http://illusion.scene360.com/?p=847
...phaydara
http://illusion.scene360.com/?p=847
...phaydara
http://www.msandberg.nl
quite rough on the eyes, really...but if you scroll down, you can see more examples of this typeface? and what does this say?
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/tag/typography/
...phaydara
http://www.typorganism.com/
I haven't tried it myself, but here's a link for an application that can turn an image into an ascii portrait...let me know what you think?
...phaydara
Illustrative Type
here's some more examples of this style
http://illusion.scene360.com/?p=3054#more-3054
...phaydara
Type Blog
I found a treasure trove of calendars at this site. (Clearly a class much like ours judging from the other posts.) Not a lot of them really push the limits of typography. But some may spark ideas.
posed by diana
March 13, 2009
What the font
I'm not sure if some one posted it already, or maybe they did the iphone app version. But this is a really cool site that lets you upload images of text and then it gives you possible typefaces. I've found it to be pretty accurate, as long as you have a good photo. Even if it doesn't give you an exact match, it usually gives me something close enough to work with.
WhatTheFont!
-julianna
WhatTheFont!
-julianna
March 12, 2009
Gladly this is not my obsession.
Check out this font blog about watching the movie The Reader:
http://fortheloveoftype.blogspot.com/2009/03/reading-into-reader.html
Ambigram?
"Description: These are ambigrams, spelling the same or different words from different vantage points (180 Degrees in this instance)." - David Foster
This took me a while to figure out. - Cindy
This took me a while to figure out. - Cindy
Sunshine Calendar
"Fun little project: made a calendar that displays the daily hours of sunshine 30 years ago, projected onto the year 2008. -Sven Ellingen's Portfolio"
I want to see the sun! Enough of this winter already....Cindy
March 11, 2009
March 10, 2009
Happify Calendar
One of my friends makes a calendar each year that she sells on Etsy, all of her designs are really creative, here is one for the month of February. She's been making calendars for the past three years... you can view her work at her online shop, www.happify.etsy.com
posted by Emily
