Jean Jullien: Cliche
Thursday 21st of August, 2008
Really cool photographic flyer compositions by Jean Jullien. It seems Kirk was right — in the future, there will be velour...
Fontpark
Thursday 14th of August, 2008
Useless, infuriating, but still quite a lot of fun. Keep watching for some really clever illustrations made with Japanese characters.
The best ampersand
Thursday 14th of August, 2008
We've been hearing a fair bit about the humble ampersand in recent months. Much of this is thanks to the efforts of the excellent (and thorough) The Ampersand, but another major fan of the typographer's favourite squiggle is Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits. Today, Dan put up an interesting article about using a separate CSS font-family declaration for ampersands, based on Robert Bringhurst's advice:
“ Since the ampersand is more often used in display work than in ordinary text, the more creative versions are often the more useful. There is rarely any reason not to borrow the italic ampersand for use with roman text. ”
Thoughtfully, Dan (or more accurately his new colleague, Meagan Fisher) has provided a series of charts showing the ampersands available in the default font sets of OS X, XP and Vista. Also worth noting (for the Semanticists in the room, at least) is Jeremy Keith's comment regarding the use of abbr rather than span tags. Another semantics fist-fight waiting to happen? We can only hope...
The Mario Scarf; More Motivation
Tuesday 12th of August, 2008
You might have seen this elsewhere — but meh, you weren't doing anything that important anyway. Cassie is knitting the entire of Super Mario Bros, World 1 Level 1, into a scarf! Genius:
Following on from my earlier post on motivation, however, comes this little gem:
“ Jason decided to to offer me a deal- when the Mario Scarf is finished then he will propose. Motivation at last! ”
Double genius.
Do It Yourself Freestyle Typography Battle. Word.
Wednesday 6th of August, 2008
This week's Typophile type battle is pretty cool — hand-made wording. Not as many as I would have expected from the generally prolific typophiles, but definitely worth a look...