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DLR

Misunderstood genius or fool? Or a little bit of both.

I’ve actually been a fan of David Lee Roth since high school. Just deal with it.

With a friend, we used to do DLR music video comic strip parodies in our high school newspaper. We called him David Lee Broth and changed lyrics to be all about food. ‘Just a Buffalo’ instead of ‘Just a Gigolo.’

And you know, I do think Dave’s part genius – with a bit of the foolish side dancing around what works/what’s public opinion/where his next career move will be.

Pictured in this post are highlights from Dave’s sketchbook, which can now be seen at his rather sparse website. The art bounces thru a few genres, as is his thing. [Read more →]

Virtue: Typographic comic book

‘comic books that use typography in place of imagery as the primary method of storytelling’

James Pannafino is working on producing a unique type-only comic book and is seeking funding thru Kickstarter. Website/more details here.

Found via James Saturnio

Matches, Acne

The work of Neil Watson.

Found via The Strange Attractor

Tina Fey types

From BUST magazine, Spring 2004.

Scrabble: The Beautiful Word

Above: Scrabble ad created by Irina Dakeva and Clément Dozier of Wizz for Ogilvy Paris.

Part of Scrabble’s ‘the Beautiful Word’ campaign. More videos (and details) here.

And here’s two more (below), created by Mathieu Lafontaine and Didier Tovel (aka C4) of Apollo.

Jailbirds

How are you going to decorate your jail cell?

Found via Brian Hoff, via Frank Chimero, GOOD magazine

Top o the world

Found via Martin Klasch

All the news on tee vee

‘Either they all use the same newspaper, or all these shows take place on the same exact day  . . .  which kind of makes my head hurt.’

Click to view larger/jump.

Found via Hoefler+Frere-Jones, The High Definite

Type in type


type it.

Typography is everywhere.

And inspired by sfgirlbybay, here’s a way to have fun with type today.

Just type the word ‘type’ into Flickr’s search engine.

See what pops up. Enjoy the show.


Nordic Type


Specimen of type from the a Mano/Dean wood type collection


Pizza box full of wood type for Cooper Union


Type Specimen book: 1961


Typewriter illustration

Startup Redesigns the Textbook

‘Meet The Kno – a two-touchscreen tablet that folds out like a book’

How it works (above). Article here.

Found via GOOD

‘Teddy Roosevelt did his best thinking on the toilet’

While eating Grape-Nuts.

Found via James Lileks, Lint


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