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Alphabet Truck by Tabuchi
Since Sacramento is a hub for some of California’s major freeways (5, 80, 99), there’s a lot of local truck traffic.
And there’s always some interesting typography to go with them. Yellow is one of my favorites, because it’s not actually yellow. It’s orange.
I also enjoy the typography and colors of the Werner line.
And I do miss the iconic fruit covered Raley’s trucks – no longer seen around town. Artwork by the great Don Birrell of historical Vacaville Nut Tree fame.
On a related note, here’s images from Paris-based photographer Eric Tabuchi’s Alphabet Truck series (above) volume one and volume two.
Found via Splorp
So you need a typeface
Picking fonts, not the easiest thing to do. But design student Julian Hansen has created a poster that kinda breaks it down into easy solutions.
Click the above image for a full size version.
Are there really easy solutions?
Swiss design uberguru Massimo Vignelli believes so. Here’s I Love Typography’s take on The Vignelli Twelve.
Found via Typekit
talk to me . . .
‘A letter mosaic of a japanese idol’
The photomosiac work of Charis Tsevis.
Click image for larger view/jump.
Type fades
‘I heard there will be a bigger restaurant in their place. I never been to Di Lalla. I must say, it wasn’t very inviting. But it was there and now it’s not. I wish Georgette and Gilles to have a very happy retirement. On their last message, written on a paper place mat, they said : Thank you! To all our customers and friends for those beautiful 39 years. For some reason, I find this very moving.’ -nathalie
Photos by nathalie et cetera of a now abandoned restaurant that’s about to be updated by progress. More details here.
Biome
‘A retro-futuristic, soft display sans in seven weights’
Check out Carl Crossgrove’s fantastic new Biome Wide fonts. Details here.
Available thru fonts.com (and a few others).
Congratulations Rebecca!
The randomly-picked winner of my under-the-radar, spur of the moment Jeanne Moderno giveaway contest thing from this past week is Rebecca Spencer, who posted the comment:
rebecca spencer// Apr 10, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I really like the Jeanne Moderno faces… hope I win!!
The winning font has been emailed using YouSendIt. Thanks to everyone for the great comments and entries!
Please keep reading. More to come.
TRIO: cable, web, gone.
TRIO was a brilliantly odd cable network that sort of ended up being shuffled about and sort of vanished from tee vee in an acquisition by NBC that included similar net Bravo and a bunch of other things. That’s the short way to put it. In all, NBC ended up channeling its money and energy into Bravo.
Some of TRIO’s wares included Brilliant But Canceled, re-airings of great television programs that were too smart for their own good. Today, TRIO lives as a web archive (with a link back to Bravo, of course) – and Brilliant But Canceled is now a web blog.
In all this, Scott Stowell‘s open designed the look of the network, with design studio No.17 creating the logo; filmmaker Chris Wilcha and music supervisors Agoraphone along for the ride.
Official TRIO page here. Open’s portfolio (with videos) here. AIGA TRIO design article here.
They were brilliant, tho canceled.
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