I’m glad to have contributed to this collection. I reviewed the great Carter Sans.
Thanks to my smart and talented friends for participating in Typographica’s “Favorite Typefaces of 2011”.
This is a really, really enjoyable site. (via @idsgn and @teehanlax)
So, on Friday I was asked by Brockett Horne and Ellen Lupton—respectively of the undergrad and graduate graphic design departments at MICA—to give a talk to professors and graduate students about how to teach students to design good web typography.
As I was creating the presentation, I realized that I was mentioning a lot of sites, so I created a page that contained all those links. Eventually it struck me that these links might not be only useful to those who attended my talk, but also the general population of the internet.
These photos are simply amazing. I would have no clue on how to begin.
To promote her newly launched photo restoration business, Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway colourized a few of history’s more iconic photos. Check them out here.
Augh, @youngjerks! I’m so screwed. Now I have to come up with something super clever.
Triforce Tribute Art Sneak Peek #1: Young Jerks (aka Dan Cassaro) work-in-progress. View more work by Dan here! More sneak peeks to come!
Saul Bass Pitches the new Bell System Logo. Amazing, sometimes over the top, brand pitch. Thanks to @benbours
These Hermès windows from House Industries are awesome! Next can we have a video of them in action?
A half-tone font already seems like a nigh impossible task. Toss in the fact that this was made in FontStruct, makes this absolutely amazing.
Badger Spine is a font by Holly Dennis created in FontStruct, which means it’s made of modular “bricks” in basic shapes like circles, rectangles, and diagonals. Really. Even ignoring that incredible fact, it’s a beautiful design inspired by some of nature’s own building blocks.
Yanone created Speed Punk while we were in t]m together. Great to finally see it’s coming together!
(Source: vimeo.com)
I’m amazed by the quality of the work put into The Momentus Project, a project akin to the 50&50 project of this spring. Instead of illustrators recreating their state mottos, they are illustrating their chosen “defining moment in United States history.”
I was reading another article about Susan Kare, the designer of the fonts and icons for the early Mac, and I came across a strange comment that the original fonts—Chicago, Monaco, Geneva, New York, etc.—were originally named after towns near where I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. I googled, and I got this Folklore entry, written by Kare herself. Apparently they were named for stops on the Paoli-Thorndale bound R5—Rosemont, Ardmore, Overbrook, Merion. Also, see this interview.
Simply amazing and very spooky.
Modern remains of Trench Warfare from the Battle of the Somme, Beaumont-Hamel, France.
New identity for St. Bart’s Church by The Original Champions of Design caught my eye. Type design by Jesse Ragan.
“Architectural style drove the visual strategy so much that the typography was lifted directly from the building facade.” Legendary designer Massimo Vignelli once said in an interview with Type Radio that his dream project would be to redesign the corporate identity of The Vatican. “I would tell them to keep the symbol. That’s good, but everything else needs to go.”
WOO-HOO!
Alright all you creeps and weird-oh’s…here it is. The day you’ve all been waiting for. This years Halloween mix is finally done and ready to be downloaded!
TRACKS:
1. The Morgus Creep - Daringers (1964)
2. You’ve Become a Witch - The Electric Mess (2010)
3. Satan Is Her Name - Steve King (1962)
4. Zombie - The Big Guys (1964)
5. My Girlfriend Is A Witch - October Country (1968)
6. Mummy Walk (Walking Death) - The Contrails (1966)
7. Voodoo Woman - Kurtis Knight (1961)
8. The Voo-Doo Man - Johnny Perry (1963)
9. Death Of Mr. Monster - The Makers (1994)
10. Strange Happenings - Rex Garvin (1971)
11. Spooky - George Barnes (1962)
12. Gwendolyn and the Werewolf - Hutch Davie (1958)
13. House of Horrors - Merv Griffin (1962)
14. All Black & Hairy - Screaming Lord Sutch (1966)
15. That Little Old Graverobber Me - Don Hinson & The Rigamorticians (1962)
16. Ghost Train - The Swanks (1964)
17. Arabian Caravan - The Flames (1959)
18. Dead - The Poets (1958)
19. Scream - Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors (1962)
20. Coffin Nails - The Ghouls (1964)
21. Horror Pictures - The Calvanes (1958)
22. Rayon Mortel - The Howlers (1964)
23. The Spook Walks - The Spooks (1966)
24. Return of the Vampire (The Bogey Man) - The Moontrekkers (1963)
25. Fear (Main Title From “One Step Beyond”) - The Ventures (1963)Grab it HERE.
