Friday, February 27, 2009

I'm a ...

From Joe Stewart's flickr.

Typographic tree sculpture

The striking, cracked trees, 14 in all, are situated throughout the library building and are installed vertically, flush to the floor and ceiling to resemble supporting, structural pillars. Each tree is, in fact, a real oak trunk and displays carved passages of text from literature within the library, the typeface of each passage chosen carefully to suit the nature of the text.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Megan is a font designer

Megan Corkrey in this season's American Idol is a 23-year-old font designer from Utah.

Space, the final font tier


KERN is a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures!

Only the typography Nazi can see what's wrong with this

Type atrocity.

Township typography

This is it. I'm gonna go out these weekends and take pictures of Kuala Lumpur shop fronts. Township Typography, a collection of South African signage. (via Quipsologies)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Type theory

Motherload of typographic logo lock-ups and enclosures . (via Quipsologies)

Complot Creativity School: H, D, Y

Typography course. More important in your life than you can imagine. Registration open.
Complot Creativity School.

Advertising Agency: Contrapunto BBDO, Barcelona, Spain
Creative Director: Tomas Oliva, Carlos De Javier
Art Director: Lucas Jatobá
Copywriter: Emma Piquer
Illustrator: Serge Seidlitz (H), Diego Medina (D), Open the Door (Y) (via
ibelieveinadv)

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Michael Bojkowski's CD Covers

Michael Bojkowski's CD Covers

Criterion Box Art


"For film nerds like myself, the Criterion Collection is the crème de la crème.  Every title in their incredible catalog is restored to pristine picture and sound quality and usually boasts some of the best bonus features out there.

But what is really seals the deal is Criterion’s gorgeous box art.  Every DVD in the Criterion Collection sports a completely original box art design.  They must have some of the best in-house designers working today as their DVD packaging just can’t be beat.  Needless to say, this makes it especially hard for the DVD collector to resist."

An Ode to Criterion Box Art

I promise

Jeff Matz Designer/Principal of Lure Design created this last week for a screen printing presentation at “Pull + Ink” Art Center of South Florida, South Beach for AIGA Miami. They were such a big hit - they decided to put them up for sale! (via swissmiss)

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Lumen invitation

Theis & Khan Architects designed a new mulit-faith center for worship in London called Lumen, The central feture within Lumen is the 'Shaft of Light' - an etherial, white rendered space which emulates a beam of light, holding a prayer room inside. It was this focus on rays of light which inspired the invitation design for the Lumen opening in late 2008.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Film books covers

Aside from the fact that the article is brilliantly written itself, I just love seeing these retro book covers on films & movies accompanying the post.


Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York

Finally someone captured these beautiful storefronts with insanely gorgeous typography before they are gone. Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York (via swissmiss). In another side of the world, London Shop Fronts. Malaysians, we need to photograph storefronts around our local area too, don't you think?

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Montreal in a Nutshell


Stop Motion: Montreal in a nutshell from Sylvain Dumais on Vimeo.

Stop motion video shot for Montreal agency Sidlee. This video was made to showcase Montreal as a creative hub. (via notcot)

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

Poster for the play How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. This was made by hand cutting, stacking, and kerning thousands of paper letters.

By Thomas Bradley, who happens to have one of the most amusing about pages around. (via Book Cover Archive blog via HELLO BAULDOFF)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Moleskine Helvetica

I will love you for life if you get me one of this (or let me know where I can get this!) (via twittering fridaysdust)

Monday, February 9, 2009

Rob Moxon tees

How awesome are these tees from Rob Moxon? FYI, he's also in the midst of seeking work placements in and around UK. (via FormFiftyFive)

Grammy's typographic poster

The 51st Grammy's Typographic Posters are a hit! (via SpeakUp)

1966 Helvetica ad

A 1966 ad for Helvetica from the pages of Print magazine. [Via SpeakUp]

Friday, February 6, 2009

Anyone can swiss

Anyone can swiss. (via swissmiss)

Journal of Urban Typography

Not sure if this has been featured here, but here it is: Journal of Urban Typography. Just because I like going out and take pictures of random signboards that intrigued me.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

This is Agostina


This is Agostina from YouWorkForThem on Vimeo.

This is Agostina” is a video to promote the font Agostina which was designed by Michael Cina. (via swissmiss)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Typographic map

Please tell me what it says.