entries Tagged as [design]

Local Towers

Things in Sacramento are named Tower.

After the bridge, after the theatre (both below). Tower Records (as a walk in store) started  . . .  and finished here. I’m convinced the local auto museum, the Towe was actually supposed to be the Tower but they forgot to add the r.

Pictured: Sacramento Cityscapes by Paul Guyer. More here.

(Shakey’s Pizza started here too)

Towers


Nicola López, woodcut and silkscreen on paper

Ten visions of towers, over at PRINTERESTING.


Vladimir Tatlin, letterpress book cover


Michael Dal Cerro, woodcut


Anne-Maree Hunter, book arts, intaglio, silkscreen

Covering walls

Here’s an incredible collection of wall decals.

LEGO in the kitchen

‘a basic IKEA kitchen island bar  . . .  a full week covering it with more than 20,000 Lego pieces’

Designed by Munchausen. Details here.

Wordle

Type image generated by Wordle from my blog’s tags. Try it out here.

Found via Martin Klasch

‘Obama, burdened’

‘Includes type from Obama’s campaign and branding: Gotham, Knockout No. 48, Gill Sans, and Perpetua.’

Illustration for TIME by Dylan Roscover. Article here.

The State of the Union is tomorrow night.

Great ideas

More inspiration at LEGO CL!CK.

Found via E Design Studio

Technology fetish

The work of Tatsuo Miyajima. More here.

The mehallo font library at Typekit

Recently, I made most of my font library available for the web via Typekit.

The list is here.

Thru TypeKit web designers can (legally) embed my fonts as html text at any website. Here’s a site that’s using Chandler 42.

Typekit has 4 subscription options; with a free trial plan available. Note: My fonts are only available through the Portfolio plan and higher.

For more info, drop by Typekit. Subscribe to their blog for updates.

And
Here’s a review at Webmonkey that does a good job explaining what all this font embedding hoohah is about.

Type Wear scarves

‘Customize your own scarf with letters. Write names, messages, dates, places  . . .’

Designed by Henrik Kubel.

Keep warm. Go here.

Found via Marian Bantjes

IDEO redesigns Ford dashboards

New dashboard thinking for Ford from IDEO.

Article here. IDEO case study here.

The hierarchy is really well done, but what I love is the glass half full gas gauge.


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