Type Objects

I like this because it's literally an object made out of typography.

This is cool. And it's made out of the filler text we talked about last week (lorem ipsum).

Posted by Tim

Letterpress Xmas

My wife and I received this Xmas card from our friend, Monica. She's a letterpress printer and occasionally makes pieces like this. I think it's supposed to be Satan Claus.

-joshysan

Typeface/Typographer Posters

Posted by Neal.

Letters as Architecture

Cameron Moll creates immensely intricate pieces of typographic architecture.











































































More pictures can be found at his website - including a video detailing his use of the letterpress.

Posted by Jordan.

Typography objects

This room of typography is hand drawn by Thomas Broome. You can see more of these typography pieces on the artist's website.

Typography constructed torsos are featured in this Dockers ad. Rather than just using the outline, it would have been cool if they were a bit more elaborate so they looked three-dimensional.

Posted by Caryn

Sweet Type

I found these images as I was searching for inspiration for my own project.

Posted by Megan

handmade typography

white and black.. its a good work simple and cool.. and good combination with hands

Even More Handmade Type

A few more examples of interesting handmade typography that I've found floating around the interwebs:

Amandine Allesandra has designed a shirt intended to express, through body-movement, the entire alphabet:




















More pics and a video can be found here.

A well-made yarn-based type, established through geometrically filling the "negative" space. Found, of all places, in a Macy's window display:




















More photos: here.

Lastly, the Eye Magazine blog has a really interesting article detailing recent work expanding typography "dimensionally":




















Posted by Jordan

more handmade type

Another good use of shadow in capturing the white-on-white type. And nice contrast with the gummi colors.

This is just really cool.

posted by Tim

ANCHOR, by Lucia Cai

ANCHOR, Lucia Cai

A uni-case multi-dimensional typeface inspired by the average New Yorker’s daily journey through the urban jungle. The name ANCHOR is derived from the way that the floss is tethered to the foundation yet when viewed from above the letter forms seem like they’re suspended in midair. ANCHOR plays with light and shadow, which manipulate each to create elongated and condensed variations on each letterform.
Materials: Pine Wood, Finishing Nails, Embroidery Floss, Varnish, Gold Acrylic Paint, Canola Oil, Wood Putty.

>>I'm feeling particularly inspired by typefaces that have a sculptural element to them. I suppose most if not all handmade types will be 3-dimensional (even ink has depth, right?) but I like typefaces like this accentuate the sculptural possibilities.

posted by master josh

Handmade Typefaces

Not the most legible, but certainly unique. (Made by Dave Wood)

Candy letters for Megan.

This one is similar to our PSA project. The medium used is public transit tickets.

Posted by Caryn

Handmade Typography

By the famous Marian Bantjes for the equally famous Stephan Sagmeister!

From the website "design work life".

Text message by Ginger Anyhow.

Posted by Neal.

BANG!

http://www.designswan.com/archives/words-make-art-typography-portrait.html

Posted by Megan

Helvarial Quiz

Ironic Sans redid several well know Helvetica logos in Arial in a quiz to see how well you can tell the two fonts apart.

I did pretty well but, but I think I may need some tracing paper before I get 100% on this one.

Posted by Caryn

Well someone had to post the sequel

After we watched College Humor's Font Conference, I obviously sought out the sequel, Font Fight.

Helvetica and Arial fight to the death!

...literally.

Posted by Caryn

...in...SPACE!

What point size of Helvetica would it take to reach the moon?




















Helvetica! In! Space!

Useful in applying typography? Likely not.
Useful as trivia for a dinner party? Maybe

Posted by Jordan

Wilderness Downtown

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

This is a neat music video showing off the capabilities of HTML5. There's a cool section where it asks you to write a letter to your younger self. If you use the keyboard there's a nice animated type effect. They recommend you watch it in the Google Chrome browser.

Posted by Tim

What the font

Someone else posted this link on the blog last year but it's worth posting again. It's a site that helps you figure out what font is being used. It's also available as an iPhone app.

This is kinda fun too. Make a usable font from your own handwriting.

[picture unrelated]

posted by josh wenck

Typocalypse

Apropos of last night's class, typefaces are intrinsically linked with certain feelings, impressions, and "personalities". Some of them are not entirely positive....




























































The entire series can be found at Lars Willem Veldkampf's flickr page.

Posted by Jordan.

Fall has fallen

Posted by Neal