Beautiful Type is a patchwork of photos and illustrations having a relationship with typography.
AisleOne is focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.
iABC is a collection of beautiful letters.
Inspiration Bit has a nice archive of articles about web typography.
Nicetype is about fonts, logos, posters and software.
Twenty-Six Types celebrates the beautiful letters.
Typenuts is type-themed iPhone and desktop wallpapers.
Typoretum is about typography, letterpress and printing history. Enjoy.
posted by netbros
on Nov 6, 2011 -
5 comments
We and the Color is a blog about creative inspiration in art, graphic design, illustration, photography, architecture, fashion, product, interior, video and motion design. Also
on Flickr.
posted by netbros
on Oct 28, 2011 -
1 comment
Typeface based on sculpture becomes motorized sculpture. The (European) typeface
Jigsaw, โwhich was inspired by sculpture,โ finds a use in typesetting the names of donors to a (U.S.) regional arts council. โA motorized disk contains approximately 2,000 names.... Pushing an initial letter on the control panel allows the viewer to find a particular name. The disk rotates and stops at the requested letter and displays all the names corresponding to the requested letter by backlighting them with white LEDs.โ (
Gallery;
Vimeo video.)
[more inside]
posted by joeclark
on Jul 10, 2011 -
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The Museum of Modern Art
announced this week it would induct 23 digital-era typefaces into its permanent collection (
Times coverage). But what do the
designers of these fonts
look like? Pics or it didnโt happen:
first set;
second.
posted by joeclark
on Jan 26, 2011 -
34 comments
The Art of Hermann Zapf film "was produced in 1967 at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City and in my design studio in Dreieichenhain, Germany... After long discussions and the help of a lot of alcohol
we started late in the night. I was sitting at a slanted glass table with a hot spotlight in my neck. Frank Robinson was lying on the floor with the camera ready for a frog-view shot. My task was to write beautiful letters with ink which dried as soon the pen touched the slippery surface of an astralon sheet." —
Hermann Zapf
posted by netbros
on Jan 23, 2011 -
16 comments
The Great Typekit Table — Finding a good
Typekit font for long blocks of text is hard, but
Sleepover has done it so you don't have to. They've pared it down according to two simple rules: first, the font has to have lowercase, uppercase, bold, italic, and bold italic; second, the font can't be handwriting, script, or monospace.
posted by netbros
on Dec 19, 2010 -
37 comments
Fraktur mon amour: Ruud Linssenโs
Book of War, Mortification and Love is a collection of โessays on voluntary sufferingโ that works as a specimen of the
Fakir blackletter typeface issued by merry pranksters Underware. Bored already? Well, try this on for size: Itโs โprinted in the authorโs blood.โ
posted by joeclark
on Aug 18, 2010 -
12 comments
Cardon Copy takes the vernacular of self-distributed flyers and tear-offs... redesigning them, overpowering their message with a new visual language. [
via]
posted by Fiasco da Gama
on Jul 1, 2010 -
50 comments
Where music geekery and typographical geekery intersect:
Rock That Font looks knowledgeably at the typography of notable album covers.
posted by acb
on Apr 30, 2010 -
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John Mayer gets some really bitchinโ typography. House Industries (last MeFi mention:
1999!) designs a limited-edition tour poster for the crooner who constantly steals the show on
TMZ. โ[U]ntil they come up with a JPEG format that makes metallics shimmer like a
Solid Gold dancerโs outfit, there just isnโt a substitute for physically walking around a serigraph and watching the light bouncing off metallic and fluorescent inks.โ
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posted by joeclark
on Feb 25, 2010 -
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Ikea de-Futurafies. You may have noticed something at once familiar and unfamiliar about the 2009 Ikea catalogue: The company switched from a custom variant of
Futura to the font you stare at all day in your browser, Verdana. And type nerds are
losing their shit! [more inside]
posted by joeclark
on Aug 26, 2009 -
167 comments
Stelae for 7/7. The London 7/7 Memorial consists of โ52 pillars (or โstelaeโ), cast in rough textured stainless steel, each representing one of the victimsโ of the 2005 terrorist bombing attack. Typographer Phil Baines (
profile) explains the development of the rough-hewn yet โBritishโ typeface, based on โthe 19th-century, untutored signmakersโ sansserif you see on buildings around the city,โ that is moulded into the living steel.
posted by joeclark
on Jul 8, 2009 -
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