‘Nation created Google Blacklist Christmas as an homage to the search giant’s censorship-tinged mini snafu.’
Make your own holiday card – using words that Google has blacklisted (typing them in will return zero search results). Send it to a friend. Or not a friend. Create your card here.
Found via Mashable
‘Stop motion animation that spells out the word ‘Tzvira’ in Hebrew which means State (The physical property of matter)’
Melting ice typography created by Adam Barak – as part of a typography workshop instructed by experimental designer Oded Ezer.
Found via Odedadali
The text of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on one big poster. Available here.
Found via Alice Woodruff
Photograph by Kent Hall.
Taken at the 2007 Gatsby Summer Afternoon, held annually by the Art Deco Society of California.
‘Cleavage, surrealism, and jaunty music – Yep, it’s a Fleischer cartoon!’ -IMDB user review
Before Betty Boop and Popeye: 1932 advertisement for Oldsmobile from the great Fleischer animation studio.
With nifty sing-along, bouncing ball animated lettering.
‘Part 1 features unique gifts and decor. Part 2 will feature typographic prints and posters, while Part 3 will showcase some of my favorite fonts themselves.’
Just My Type’s 2010 Typographic Gift Guide. Start with Part 1. And here’s Part 2.
And don’t forget to pick up a few letterpress originals at Just My Type’s Etsy store.
Found via Delve Withrington
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