entries Tagged as [typography]

Black + white + type

‘Armed with blase attitudes and killer looks, Jacquelyn Jablonski and Hannah Holman don black and white ensembles for an editorial in the spring issue of Self Service.’ –Fashion Gone Rogue

Photographed by Ezra Petronio, styled by Suzanne Koller. More here.

Nice type

‘Some of his work is greatly inspired by the works of Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller and Helmut Newton’ –Marius Troy

The fashion/fetish photography of Bangkok-based Jens Ingvarsson.

Okay, so the type does have some kerning problems.

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

Mostly 2 letter Scrabble words

My wife is a Scrabble phenom. And one of her hush-hush strategies is the legal two letter words one can use in play.

For one of my specimens for my Chandler 42 fonts (above), she created a connected word chart listing these and a few others.

Birds-n-typewriter


Lonesome Road: Dean Elliott & His Big Band

Birds absolutely LOVE Dean Elliot‘s 1962 track, Lonesome Road. Cluck always sings along.

Photos by mehallo

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

New nav features for TypeKit

Are you using TypeKit yet?

My own fonts can be found there.

And the latest: New nav features can help you find fonts faster. Jeffrey Veen demos above. Article here.

Sleep and time

Imagine how much more of life we’d experience if we didn’t have to take seven or eight hours out of our day to just lie around making snoring noises.

Photography by Tyler Shields

Spot

From 2004: Magazine cover design by Amondó Szegi, co-founder of the Fontana Font Foundry.

Space Alphabet, 1964

Flickr set here.

Found via Martin Klasch

Defining terms: Design is not decoration

I’ve said this in the critiques in my design classes:

‘Are you a designer or a decorator?’

The distinction is a designer is a problem solver. In graphic design, a designer is a problem solving communicator. Graphic design is a communication field and the nuance in definition is what can separate novice from professional. [Read more →]


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