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‘Vintage Ads Reveal Fashions And Trends In Type And Commercial Lettering’

Check out Vintage Ad Browser.

And
Great article about how to typographically mimic these looks at The Font Feed.

Found via The Font Feed

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‘I met a Pakistani man who did his impression of Americans for me.

‘And then he fired finger guns into the air and shouted, ‘Texas, Texas!’’

–Chris Kelly, reporting from Dubai

Quote found via Synthetic Pubes
Image via Celebritypixx

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‘You know what else sugar cane is really good for? Making soda. Look into it, Coke.’ –The Consumerist

Coca-Cola’s new ‘PlantBottle™’ is hitting the streets. The bottle is made partially from cane sugar.

So now the container contains cane sugar. It’d also be nice if they got the real sugar back in The Real Thing too.

Article here. My HFCS bitching is here.

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‘Tracing the slow-food movement back to its feisty Italian roots’

Article here.

More about slow food here.

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I apologize for this.

On January 17, I sent out emails to the winners of my font contest. And heard nothing. Never knew if they did get my fonts. Finally heard back, nada. It looks like spam filters may have caught what was sent.

So if you were a winner in my font contest – the winners are listed here – I have now sent the fonts to your email address via YouSendIt. Please contact me if you do not receive and we can try carrier pigeon or something.

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Sketches by dr. mendez and nurse wickland

I think our lowercase g is our screwiest letter. It evolved into something quite odd. It has parts that other letters do not have. It also has an ear. It’s often drawn just like a dog’s ear.

Two of my students have been pondering (above) other letters that should have ears.

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If we had a kid, it would probably be a bit like Tavi Gevinson. Stylish, unique, sarcastic. Highly influential 13-year-old fashion blogger.

Follow her adventures here.

If we did have a kid and it wasn’t Tavi, we’d probably mess it up because we’d want a Tavi.

It’s probably a good idea that we don’t have kids.

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Moschino block letter buckle: ‘Style blogger sensation’

PSFK has posted an interesting article about the influence of fashion blogs.

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I really wish this technology existed. Would make blowing things up in Photoshop so friggin easy.

‘Can you clean that up?’
‘Not if there’s nothing there – it’s just a bunch of colored boxes. That’s all pixels are.’

Jack Bauer pulls out gun, kills dude at computer. Chloe solves problem.

24 returns tonight, btw.

There are some enhancement solutions, but not on the fictional scale that tee vee shows use.

Video found via kottke.org

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This week, Jeanne Moderno ended up with the dubious honor of being on the
Merkwürdige Schriften 2009 (Strange Types 2009) list over at Slanted.

Thanks guys! Strange, that would be the best way to put it.

Here’s a link. Here’s the same link translated into dubious English.

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The results are in! Our winners are  . . .

[1]    suresh
comment    Wow! Font giveaway! Thanks a lot!

[2]    rrriles
comment    Can’t pass up an opportunity for free fonts!

[3]    reece butler
comment    What a nice site you have here. I must say that it’s always nice to stumble upon a new hidden gem (even if it involved dangling a carrot like a free font to get me here). You can be sure I’ll be back.

[4]    matt v
comment    those are definitely some good posts! also, i am entering! i know there is almost a 1% chance i will win, which will diminish significantly as it draws closer to the 16th, but what the hell!

[5]    amanda
comment    January 16 is my birthday. ;)

Each have won a complete, licensed set of Jeanne Moderno fonts: All 9 OpenType fonts, $99 USD value. Emails have been sent out to the winners. Please contact me directly if my emails vanish into the spam filter ether.

also
Stay tuned, I have something planned for everyone who entered. I will post in a bit.

Image of IBM’s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (c. 1948) found via Boing Boing Gadgets

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