Animography

Check out Animography, a series of animated typefaces. Smart and well done!

Animography Opening from Animography on Vimeo.

From their site:

Animography.net is a webshop/typefoundry that provides motion designers, video-editors and others in the field of the moving image with animated typefaces. These animated typefaces are easy to use, customizable and scalable without any loss of quality.
Our animated typefaces are Adobe After Effects files with each glyph in a separate composition. A controller-composition serves as a central point from which you can customize all the glyphs in one go.

Check it out here.

Paula Scher MAPS exhibit

Paula Scher's amazing map paintings are currently on view at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York. Though I've loved them for a long time, I had never seen one of the paintings in person, so I ventured to the gallery last weekend to see them firsthand. I highly recommend you do the same if you're in the NY area (and hurry, because the exhibit is only up until February 18th!) If I happen to win the lottery or miraculously come across a large sum of money, I'd like to buy one of these and hang it on my wall. Until then, I'll just stare longingly at the iPhone photos I took (which hardly begin to do them justice).

This $*@% is Bananas...

The making of Chiquita's Banana font.

Chiquita - Making of Banana font from Erik Post on Vimeo.

Luctor et Emergo

Possibly the nicest graffiti ever. Seen on 14th Street.


(Luctor et Emergo = "I struggle and emerge")

Typeverything

Have you seen Typeverything? There are all kinds of wonderful typographical goodies to be seen.

Lost Type Co-op

Check out Lost Type Co-op and pay what you wish for some good, fun typefaces.

Stop the Violence

Check out this video by Thirst...and see some pretty awesome letters made of bones.

Stop the Violence from thirst / a design collaborative on Vimeo.

L’Esperluette

I'm admittedly a huge grammar nerd—on top of being a huge typography nerd—so I found this little tidbit interesting. Apparently, there's an entire book about the origin of the ampersand. I'm a little bit in love with ampersands (see above admission of utter nerdiness; see also my apartment's bookshelf, which is adorned with a giant metal ampersand as decoration), so a book about ampersands actually sounds interesting to me. From the book:

The ampersand or esperluette dates to the 1st century A.D. The Old Roman cursive letters E and T were written together to form a ligature. In the 7th century, development of the Latin script and Carolingian minuscule, ligatures in general diminished, but et sign continued to be used and gradually became more stylized and more abstracted.

Though I'm pretty sure I learned this fact at some point during my typography classes and maybe even during my former life as an English minor, I managed to forget it, and the above illustration makes it a little clearer.

So, there's your fact for the day. Enjoy.

Posters of Fortune

This idea is pretty rad.


As described on the site,

The Type Directors Club in conjunction with Cardon Copy presents POSTERS OF FORTUNE: 21 Fortune cookies, with 21 distinct fortunes, have been sent to 21 internationally renowned designers. The designers have in turn transmuted these personal divinations into richly imagined typographical posters. See them, bid on them, come hear the designers discuss them.

POSTERS OF FORTUNE is on display at the TDC from April 5th – May 12, 2011. The end event and final bids will take place on May 12th from 6:00 – 9:00pm

Some of my favorites:

To artists in train-ing

True statement. Subway tile mosaic poster for SVA by eternal favorite Louise Fili Ltd. And it really does look like real subway tiles, even if it was made in Photoshop...

Knock knock

This made me smile.

Tangible Design

I'm having fun playing with Issuu.

Check out my thesis book, Tangible Design. And check out HOW Magazine's March 2011 issue to see some spreads from the book in the International Design Awards!

Open publication - Free publishing - More thesis

P.S. If you're reading this in Google Reader or a similar RSS feed, you might have to click through to see the embedded book. Click on the embedded image to view fullscreen!

Senior Library

I love, love, love Louise Fili Ltd's book design for SVA's Senior Library, which masquerades as a box of chocolates. The design was illustrated from scratch, along with much of the lettering. As usual, beautiful work from her studio.

A kern-el of truth...

Ah! The kerning on the Casino Jack ads hurts my eyes. Painful. Just a thought...

Numbers by Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Oh, hello, beautiful Numbers.
The always amazing Hoefler & Frere-Jones designed a package of 15 different number typefaces.

From their site:

For more than a century, typefounders considered numbers separately from the provision of other printing types. Nineteenth century type specimen books often displayed a separate section containing fonts of numbers alone, many of which contained unique features suited to specific kinds of settings. Fonts for tables contained digits designed to a standard width, so that columns would neatly align; those created for calendars contained forms such as "24/31" to accommodate orphan Sundays. The practice of creating specialized number fonts began to disappear at the beginning of the twentieth century, vanishing completely by the dawn of the digital age. But recognizing the usefulness of this practice, H&FJ has revived the tradition with its Numbers series of fonts.

The fonts in the Numbers series take their inspiration not from the history of printing types, but from other kinds of numbering familiar from the modern environment.

Included in the set are: Bayside modeled after ornamental house numbers, Claimcheck inspired by ticket stubs, Delancey from tenement doorways, Depot from vintage railcars, Deuce based on playing cards, Dividend from an antique check writer, Greenback based on U. S. currency, Indicia inspired by rubber stamps, Premium after vintage gas pumps, Prospekt based on Soviet house numbers, Redbird inspired by New York subways, Revenue from cash register receipts, Strasse after European enamel signs, Trafalgar inspired by British monuments, and Valuta after Hungarian banknotes.

Come together

Loving Post Typography's illustration for the Washington Post.

Dana Tanamashi

If you haven't seen her work yet, Dana Tanamashi makes really great hand-drawn typography with chalk. Fittingly, she currently works for Louise Fili (one of my design heroes I've mentioned many a time around here).

Bravo.

A quite nice poster by Tunnel Bravo, a design studio in my home state (for a children's theatre there). Has anyone else noticed the trendiness of shadowy, 3D type lately?

Eat

This print would be fun for a kitchen.

Jon Contino

I'm liking the lettering work of Jon Contino.