Choose from two vintage stiletto dingbats.
Options are an art deco-themed pump or basic, clean lines.
Part of my Moderno Collection at Café Press, limited edition tees featuring type and dingbats from my Jeanne Moderno fonts.
Built in knife rack by mehallo, hacked from an IKEA’s Molger bathroom shelf
I’m an IKEA hack. Because the products don’t always fit the space, don’t always work the right way or can be repurposed for other use. Form follows function – or form changes for better function – as it were.
IKEA is everywhere, almost. They seem to be in specific parts of the US, and then strategically all over the rest of the world. A photographer I once worked with noted that when they come to town, one can see them slowly change the look of a community. My dentist notes that they seem to open next to train tracks. [Read more →]
‘Foo-der-ah’ – as one of my students once called it. Paul Renner’s Futura is everywhere – and here’s a write up in idsgn’s ongoing know your type series.
Or – if you really want to get your hands dirty – snag a copy of the expanded edition of Christopher Burke’s wonderful biography of Paul Renner – detailing the creation of Futura – how knock offs were released before he even finished his drawings, his arrest by the Nazis, other fonts, sketches, experiments . . . But even more, the book details philosophy, beliefs and how they contributed to the creation of types that are as fresh today as they were in the 1920s.
Did you hear that IKEA???
Dive in: Slovakian artist Roman Ondák’s Measuring the Universe runs thru September 14th, 2009 at Museum of Modern Art in NYC. More details here.
Roman Ondák discusses Measuring the Universe at MoMA
Found via BMD Love Blog
Award-winning cover design for the 1975 Dodge Dart’s user manual
RIP Cash for Clunkers. The program – which ended today – may have totally changed the look of our roadways.
Art found via Graphis Annual 76|77
Today is National Waaffffle Day – celebrating the day the first US patent for a Waffffle maker was issued to Cornelius Swartwout in 1869.
Celebrate your love of waffffles with a limited edition waffffles! shirt by mehallo. Available for both men and women. Part of The Moderno Collection at Cafe Press.
Photo taken at The Original Pancake House in Roseville, CA
Here’s a link to a cool collection of typographic wallpapers designed by Arno Kathollnig/Typoatelier. Including a fun ((t+y+p+o)-o)+e= version (pictured above) featuring my very own Jeanne Moderno fonts.
Part 1
From a half hour show documenting the early development of computer-human graphical interaction.
Part 2
I miss these icons. Susan Kare developed them – and the standard city-named fonts – for the original Apple Macintosh in the early 1980s.
I particularly like the alert message guy in the right corner – a playful bitmapped take that has a similar feel as Oskar Schlemmer’s 1921 bauhaus icon.
My grungy Alta California font was inspired by Kare’s original San Francisco font; which, unfortunately hasn’t been available on a Macintosh for many years. I have a great respect for her ability to convey so many many different letters within a small 72 dpi black and white space. Unfortunately – thru gratuitous use – San Francisco did sort of become the Comic Sans of its day. Sort of.
Check out Kare’s online store for some fantastic tees and notecards. Rad digital art from a simpler era. An era that didn’t need gradients and drop shadows in order to dazzle.
And drop by the Japan-based Vintage Mac Museum to see some of Kare’s original icons in action.
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