Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Designing The Book Cover for "Columbine"
A wonderful post about the process of designing a book cover for a very charged subject.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Kinetic Type
Pretty good archive of kinetic type in this blog post—
Here. Be sure not to miss the Full Metal Jacket one.
Here. Be sure not to miss the Full Metal Jacket one.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Nuns and Printmaking
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
French Paperness
Some fun pop-themed design via French Paper. Also shows how you can utilize the paper material to enhance your design.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
The Typography Of Cartoons
This article talks about how a cartoonist uses different fonts to express the personalities of the cartoon characters.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Smashing Magazine: Principles for Web Typography
As usual, a well-written article from Smashing Magazine, replete with examples. One of the featured samples near the bottom is by Brynn Shepherd, one of Comberg's Typography students from last year!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Two Typography Talks This Thursday
Roberto de Vicq of de Vicq Design and Matteo Bologna of Mucca Design will be presenting their work as part of the Philadelphia AIGA lecture series. More info here.
food
When I first found this site, I got hungry whether or not I'd eaten prior. Not type related, but rather fun(?): Tastespotting.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Multiple font typewriter
before computers, there were apperantly options for those who wanted to emphasize on the go (or switch to a sanserif, or punjabi)
from here
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Periodic Table of Typefaces
Designed by Squidspot Labratory. I definitely want to print this large as a poster.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
silly design snobbery
DesignPolice has downloadable "kits" alerting against bad design. My personal favorites: Learn Colour Theory, Comic Sans is illegal, & Unnecessary use of Photoshop effect. To be honest, I've probably committed the first and last "crime" too much already.
(via passive aggressive notes) Thanks Jon.
(via passive aggressive notes) Thanks Jon.
Things to Look At
This blog is a great resource for typography (has a post about Letman, who Caroline recently posted about), and graphic design in general.
The Book Cover Archive
A website devoted entirely to book cover design. Found on Joanna Goddard's blog, A Cup of Jo. Here's one of her favorites:
Sunday, March 1, 2009
You should check out a designer known as "Letman." He is big on hand-done type. Very neat, some funky stuff going on.
Letman's site
Can't "Identifont"
Always wondered what some font was and couldn't quite figure it out? You probably shouldn't use Identifont to determine what it was. I tried to have the site identify Acanthus-Bold by going through the "Identify by appearance" option, which asks a series of questions about the shapes of the letters and serifs.
The problem is that if you see a font on the street and want to identify it, the questions about specific numbers or symbols which you might not have at your disposal prove useless. After going through all of the questions, the site identified the font as Ehrhardt - which isn't even that similar to Acanthus. So if you have a random typeface you want to find the name of, you may be better off scrolling through the FontReserve.
The problem is that if you see a font on the street and want to identify it, the questions about specific numbers or symbols which you might not have at your disposal prove useless. After going through all of the questions, the site identified the font as Ehrhardt - which isn't even that similar to Acanthus. So if you have a random typeface you want to find the name of, you may be better off scrolling through the FontReserve.
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