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Some new, classic types for the web – with pizza

It had to do with pizza.

Font Bureau’s Nick Sherman dropped by my hotel room at TypeCon in Los Angeles. He read on Twitter that I had pizza left over – and he’s a major pizza freak.

I thought I was a pizza freak, but I don’t even come close (video below).

Nick said he was up late working on something big.

Turns out this big thing is the launch of Webtype, a collaboration between Font Bureau, Ascender Corporation, Roger Black, Petr van Blokland and DevBridge. [Read more →]

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Pepsi and the Font Me mug

My type mug goes well with the real Pepsi that’s back in stores this month.

Get the mug here.

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Drop cap(puccino)

‘Hand sprinkled cinnamon’

Snapshot by student Rikki Morehouse. She went thru several cups of coffee til she got them serifs right.

(Hedline written by former student Devon Cloutier)

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Butterbeer!

Butterbeer: A heavy, butterscotch soda. Can be made with alcohol too. Here’s a basic recipe.

And here’s some alternates.

Photos via fuckyeahemmawatson; Food Network

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31

Also as a kid, I had a small stack of these flyers: The official Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors list, changed out monthly, available at the counter.

And Daiquiri Ice was my favorite. The allure of drinking without the drinking.

Found via So Much Pileup.

Tags: cool finds, culinary, design history, illustration by steve
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Libby the Kid

By far, these were the coolest tee vee dinners of the 1970s.

I used to be able to draw the Kid quite well and still have a 3D mug premium sitting around here somewhere.

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Canteen, Death Star

‘I can kill catering with a thought’

Eddie Izzard’s Death Star Canteen (from Circle) as interpreted thru Legos.

Found via Johnny Jnerebel

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Font Me coffee mug

‘Historical font measurements, classifications, decimal conversions, proofreader marks . . . plus, beverage holder!’

Type specs, all on one mug. Snag your’s here.

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Coffee Zine

‘a little zine all about coffee’

Hand screen printed. Order it here.

Tags: art, culinary, illustration by steve
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‘A popular rule of thumb among proponents of healthy food is that the fewer ingredients there are in something, better it is for you. With a remarkable 37 or so ingredients, many of which are polysyllabic chemical compounds, Twinkies would seem to embody the antithesis of that rule.’

Photography by Dwight Eschliman. Details about his ‘37 or so Ingredients’ project (and book) here.

Plus, check out Steve Ettlinger’s Twinkie Deconstructed.

I like how the beef fat is now labeled ‘animal shortening.’

Riboflavin, iron

Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup

Vegetable shortening, animal shortening

Monoglyceride, diglyceride

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Caffeinated Bacon lollipops

My wife got me these. Made with 100% Vermont maple syrup.

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Bacon mints (and type) in Alameda

Picked these up at Space Happy in Alameda. They also have a GREAT collection of typographic tsotchkes, cut letters, wood letters, metal letters; cool stuff.