So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?. I got 18/20. There’s one which is really hard, and one that I just don’t see.
Pretty things
February 8, 2012
- Experiences using a dirt cheap logo design service. Interesting experiment, and in the end, not entirely a bust. But you do get what you pay for. #
February 1, 2012
- The Guardian: Moscow’s Banksy: the street art of P183. My favorites are the glasses and the “plate of spaghetti”, which cleverly reimagine real world objects as parts of other, gigantic objects. #
January 12, 2012
- Mobile design trends of 2011. A good collection and breakdown of different layouts and styles used in mobile sites. #
October 26, 2011
- Ubuntu Font Family. Free download, use on the web via Google Web Fonts. #
October 11, 2011
October 6, 2011
- Rolling in the beats. 24 videos mashed up live(?!). #
July 20, 2011
- Year Zero. OFFF Barcelona 2011 main titles. Wow. #
- Anna Garforth interviewed. Garforth's mixed-media typography is insipiring. #
June 29, 2011
- The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designer. Clever way to create non-repeating backgrounds. #
June 14, 2011
- Perspective Lyrique. An interactive architectural mapping projected on the facade of former Lyrical theater, controlled by the audience, using a microphone and an audio analysis algorythm. #
- Brand Reversions. A clever project, executed nicely. #
June 1, 2011
- The Arctic Light. A beautiful timelapse film from Lofoten in Norway. #
April 18, 2011
- Manufacture d`Essai. A very nice looking site, designed around the increasingly-popular parallax-scroll effect. #
March 3, 2011
- 7 quirky and creative playing card deck designs. Fantastic! #
February 17, 2011
- Joshua Davis creates IBM’s Watson’s face. Davis’s work on BMW’s Z4 is very nice as well. #
January 19, 2011
- Dubai Fountain, "Time to Say Goodbye". From the creators of the Bellagio fountain. #
- Surface detail. Mesmering fractal landscape. #
January 11, 2011
December 20, 2010
- Yulia Brodskaya. Amazing folded paper typography! #
December 6, 2010
- Doyen of type design: The most-read man in the world. The Economist profiles Matthew Carter, typeface designer extraordinaire, creator of Verdana and Georgia. #
November 8, 2010
- The Chewing gum artist. Ben Wilson paints on chewing gum stains on London streets. #
October 27, 2010
- Cockatoo Island at the 17th Sydney Biennale. Really amazing stuff! #
September 23, 2010
- Fontspring. Desktop and @font-face fonts. #
September 20, 2010
September 10, 2010
July 5, 2010
- BIG BANG BIG BOOM. By Blu. #
June 10, 2010
- David Maupilé. A very nice photographer's portfolio based on a Leporello. #
June 1, 2010
- Dalton Maag. The font foundry. #
May 17, 2010
- Timeline - Version control for designers. Photoshop plugin that integrates with SVN. #
May 11, 2010
- Gravité. Renaud Hallée’s work of “falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm.” Hallée’s site. #
February 23, 2010
- Color Scheme Designer 3. A neat color scheme visualizer with complements, triads, and, my favorite, accented analogic. #
February 12, 2010
- Georgia and Verdana families to be extended. Interesting. How did I miss this? There's the issues of distribution and the new weights' web-worthiness. #
February 11, 2010
- Wow, there’s a blog dedicated to Hoefler & Frere-Jones’s Archer typeface. #
February 10, 2010
February 3, 2010
- The Online Romance. I loved Jack Saturn's original home-recorded man-and-guitar tracks. #
January 26, 2010
November 2, 2009
October 21, 2009
Font Squirrel and The League of Moveable Type
Font Squirrel offers hand-picked fonts that are free for commercial use. It also has @font-face kits, which is nice.
The League of Moveable Type has a manifesto. They want “the most well-made, free and open-source, @font-face ready fonts.” An open source type movement sounds good to me!
September 7, 2009
- Idsn: The Helvetica man. "By 1974, the U.S. Department of Transportation [...] commissioned the AIGA to produce a standard set for the Interstate Highway System, resulting in Symbol Signs." #
- 28 free high quality fonts. Including a bunch of Jos Buivengas, of course. #
August 26, 2009
August 11, 2009
- Paula Scher builds her TED talk around the difference between solemn and serious (see also Hemingway’s quote). Scher’s jumpcut exposition of her “serious” work is inspiring. I especially like the typography as interior design. #
July 9, 2009
- Daniel's Daily Monster. Jon Hicks draws his son a monster on a post-it for his lunch every day. #
July 3, 2009
- Friends don’t let friends use Comic Sans. Alternatives for the dreaded one. #
June 23, 2009
April 28, 2009
- Made by Elephant. Neat portfolio site of a Belgian one-man design shop. #
April 22, 2009
- Open Font Library. Also hosts font files that can be linked to directly with @font-face. Great! #
April 20, 2009
Gigs, records and recommendations
Three fantastic bands:
- 22 (the fifth time I’ve seen them!)
- Tuomas Henrikin Jeesuksen Kristuksen Bändi
- Geoff Berner (or on Myspace)
Saw all three’s gigs during the past two weeks, and bought their albums.
Desibeli.net has an article about Tuomas Henrikin (in Finnish).
Now if Geoff Berner’s live version of The Way That Girl Drinks Beer would start working on Youtube, I’d be a happy man. Fragments of the song keep floating through my head, and the recorded version just isn’t the same.
March 3, 2009
- Following Pentagram’s new work is fun: some of my favorites are the magazine redesigns of Radar and Vibe. #
January 15, 2009
- How to draw a Mac internet globe icon. By Mike Rundle. #
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