Dec
01
2011
A random quotes from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.
As a craft, typography shares a long common boundary and many common concerns with writing and editing on the one side and with graphic design on the other;...
Nov
22
2011
Nov
15
2011
Ah, it’s Tuesday and that means it is typography time! This week ten frightfully fun font and typography challenges. Think you know your type? Time to find out!
Cheese or Font?
Which is it, can you tell?
Kern Me
Can you guess what...
Nov
08
2011
Ah, it’s Tuesday and that means it is typography time! This Tuesday I wanted to pass along 10 great sites dedicated to Typography. Not just places to download fonts, but actual typography.
Typophile
The best site for all hard core font...
Oct
25
2011
Ah, it’s Tuesday and that means it is typography time! This week, here are 15 fonts that can come in handy when you need that faux-handmade quality. If your penmanship is less than artful or you are running out...
Oct
07
2011
If you love typography or the mid-century modern esthetic, you will love: "Our Fonts, Our Friends." It is a fantastically done, faux retro educational film about fonts from the stock image and font seller Veer. Naturally, it's an ad,...
Sep
29
2011
I love Kinetic Typography, I can't wait to show my experiments, but for the time being I'd share ten of my favorite pieces of kenetic type.
Typolution
Tipografia
The 8 rules of Fight Club - Kinetic Typography
Fight Club -...
Jul
11
2011
I found this great book, An A-Z of Type Designers by Neil Macmillan the other day at a local used bookstore and I can't say enough about how cool it is! It is a great addition to the library...
Jul
06
2011
Another Wednesday has rolled around, so here’s my weekly collection of interesting digital ephemera I’ve found poking around the vast Internet wasteland. Think of me as your guide beyond the digital desert...
Art, Design and Retro Items...
Sep
25
2010
Sometimes it seems that graphic designers are a serious lot. After all, it is not the normal person who becomes enraged at the use of papyrus as the subtitle font in Avatar. But to prove that designers and design...
Mar
15
2010
I found a great article in Esquire wherein book jacket designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd discusses the thinking and methods that underlie some of his recent work. One typography trick that is particularly useful is how he created the distressed...
Aug
04
2009
As we know, typography is key in many designs. From the great type treatments used in Chipp Kidd's book covers, to the inscriptions on the base of Trajan's Column and even to the inventive destruction of type by David...
