March 31, 2009

Grady McFerrin




Oh. my. goodness. My new favorite- Grady McFerrin. His Website.

posted by Diana

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 type foundry is an independent foundry based in Bulgaria. They have lots of cool typefaces that are intended for t-shirts and posters. They create new ones every week and even have a couple free ones for download.

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. 


Shoes!

Shoe Typeface, awesome! Posted 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

Awesomeness




























































Here is a pop-up card project via Jihad Lahham. Not too shabby.
-Erik

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.

Video

posted by Diana

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

Helvetica and the Jetset

Experimental Jetset talking about Helvetica from the film Helvetica.

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

font promo video


This is Agostina from YouWorkForThem on Vimeo.

i suppose a branding of sorts for the font...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://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

Walker Lecture


View some of the work of David Reinfurt here.

(That's who we're seeing on Tuesday...)

posted 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

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

Kearning & Leading?????


Really. Don't be afraid to buck the system. Cindy

From Tumblr

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

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

Functional Calendar



Calendar made of matches!

-Cindy

Bubble Calendar




A new use for bubblewrap!

- kirstin

What happens when a book goes for a walk?


This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

-posted by Heather

Illustrator Sarah King

These made me think of some of our past projects. 

posted by Heather

March 11, 2009

Because Typography wasn't already geeky enough

http://www.squidspot.com/Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces/Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces_large.jpg

-John

March 10, 2009

Connect the Dots Calendar

Kind of a crappy image, but you can get the idea. Pretty sweet concept. Site here.

-John

1, 2, skip a few...

The rest of the month is lame anyway.
Pretty cool designs for every month here.

-John

Tim Pokrichuk

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Calendar/113705

-John

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

Cool Calendars!

Posted by Emily. I really like the moons in the one at the top!





This calendar doesn't follow the "rules", but I thought it was an interesting idea.

  -Ashley




I liked the informal/formal quality of this page layout. How it layers and leads the type over and into the image.

 -Ashley