entries Tagged as [typography]
Fail, in detail
Important message about creativity by the Portland office of Wieden + Kennedy. Made from more than 100,000 tumbtacks. Script lettering. And 351 hours.
More here at swissmiss (including a making of video).
Tomorrow night: Industrial type atop Times Square
‘The choice of a ‘chamfered’ industrial style works well with the marquee-esque bulb lighting. It also has historical ties with large-scale lettering . . .’
The 2010 numbers are ready to go in Times Square! Details in this typographic article by Nick Sherman.
Plus
Here’s some historical Times Square signage from the Artkraft Strauss Archive:
An ode to the book arts
‘3000 photographs (-ish), 35 books, 2 months’
The Complex of All of These, written by Abigail Uhteg, was letterpress printed at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.
Music by Ratatat.
Allen
Lily Allen photographed by Alan Gelati for the January 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Russia.
More pics here. Plus, her most recent video.
Found via Design Scene
It’s a Wonderful Life: The typography
Over at CreativePro: Images of the type used in – and for promos – for Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
Go here for more.
Found via Sabine Lenz
Normandie in a box
Normandie’s Circle of the Beloved membership kit arrived in the mail. Wrote about it last week.
Box o good stuff: Handmade CDs by the band and a bunch of things I designed, black and white tees, poster, lifetime show pass. For more info, hit up their merch page.
handpicked posts
a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
it’s typography: film, song and dance
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden
Jozsef Pecsi: Photo and Advertising
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Gaberbocchus Press: An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979
Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style
Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
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