Typeface Tuesday News: Adobe and Typekit bring you more.
August 17th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
So for the one-year anniversary of Typekit’s launch, which is today, it was announced the Typyekit their ‘most exciting partnerships to date.’ They partnered w/ Adobe to release a bunch of fonts newly optimized for web use. Giddy up. I know its sad really that I get so excited for this but I take great comfort in knowing that I am far from being alone.
Typeface Tuesday 21: Optimistic Living
August 17th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
” I love love love typography. That is why I am designing and sticking it on the walls. Power of words, funny statements, slogans, letters, curves, and material joined in wall decorations. Call it elegant graffiti, sticky typography or something else – I’m just having fun writing in plastic.”
Tactile Typography by Optimistic Living
My new icons
August 13th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I felt that the BBR icon need to be change.
new
classic
Typeface Tuesday 20
July 27th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I came across this in my feed and if the Typography Served is not in your feed and your a designer pls. add them.
Here is the post with more pics
Dino for Dinner
June 29th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Absolutely brilliant. I want to buy my own dino meat today.
This advertising was developed for the promotion of VitaFresh BOSCH, a new refrigeration technology company. Showcasing that their product can keep things fresh for a very long time.
“The brand introduced a number of “parts” of dinosaurs alongside other products in the freezers of supermarkets. With the right price tag and specify the breed of animal, showing that even after thousands of years, that meat was still fresh and ready to eat.”
Check more pics and video of people’s reaction at the source.
Eat! Ekoaffåren
June 15th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I love this Idenity design for Eat! Ekoaffåren done by Bedow Creative & graphic designer/illustrator Axel Hugmark. It’s fun, creative and clean. This is a shop I want to have in my hood. Check the source blog to see more images here.
Retro Ads that never made it to print
February 2nd, 2010 § Leave a Comment
One of my clients is the Dalhousie Student Union (DSU) and they are the managing body of the campus student bar “The Grawood”. They ask me to come up with a new concept for an ad campaign. Something trendy, witty, smart, sexy w/o crossing any lines. That is more or less what I was told. So here I am thinking ok thats everything AND the kitchen sink but doing so w/o pissing to many people off.
So I am personally a fan of this retro 50′s/60′s trend in print right now. I came up with 3 concept ads for them to to look at. I was planning on shooting my own photos for this and treating them to look like it was 1962. In the end it was expressed that these were boring and they didn’t use them. So I thought I’d share them here.
Typeface Tuesday 18: pics of signage
December 15th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Hey I thought I warm myself back into this after a little break. So I took some pictures as I walk my neighborhood the other day. Pics of signage big and small. Some are of some logos that I have loved for some time.
Chocolate melting ceiling
November 12th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Harajuku, Tokyo is the location of the new flagship store for Godiva Chocoiste. This picture is of their wonderful and playful “melting Chocolate ceiling”, which I find very cool and interesting.
Typeface Tuesday 16: The new Typeface of Yale
November 10th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
I don’t know but I think Yale maybe the only university with its own typeface. NSCAD University needs to get on this and develop their own.
I think the font is classic and does suit the institution. Aside from that it does great me mad excited (and yes some type does get me mad excited).
Typeface Tuesday 15: The Periodic Table of Typefaces
November 10th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Ok this is the geekest and coolest thing I have seen in a bit and I may order the wall decal of it for my studio. Sorry I will start from the beginning …
This rather talented designer dude, Cam Wilde, had an idea to make a periodic table of a hundred typefaces that we all use a on regular so that he had a fun and cool looking refence to look at while working. He posted in on Behance Network back in March (I think). Since then it kinda blew up on him and has been posted on a number of blogs. What makes me want to post about it now is that he has it avail in a number of different mediums; wall decal, beautiful prints in silver ink on blk & wht 80lb stock, wallpapers, and you can even make a donation and he email you a file for you to use for your own means. Someone got it etched onto the back of his Macbook Pro (he’s the coolest geek of all). Check it out and hit the source link to site of his company Squidspot to order or dnld your own.
Please got to Squidspot and support the coolness
Quintin
November 5th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Quintin is a young hat company from the States. They make a top of the line 5-panel hat. I like this design for winter, the muse was 80′s ski sweaters, haha, well done.
Tree & Root
November 5th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
A very cool, interactive, and socially conscious, besides being so simply beautiful. Life in the light and death underneath. tree and Root.
The designer is Kitae Pak. The idea is a lamp that does more than give light to a space. And I could better than this …
“When positioned inverted in the pot, the lamp signifies a dead root, with the tree cut-off. Upright the lamp and it illuminates the room, depicting the true virtues of a tree and its importance in our lives. Besides the poetic garble, I simply think it’s an elegant design that can find pride in many homes.”
Urban Cursor
November 4th, 2009 § 1 Comment
Designer Sebastian Campion most recent art project has created community level excitement. He created an oversized 3-dimensional computer cursor (pointer) and placed it on a square in Figueres, Catalunya during the cultural festival Ingràvid.
People could intact with it. They could sit on it as a bench, play with it and move it around. Becoming participants with the cursor.
What I like about this piece is that this object is from a digital environment. What Campion does is he brings something from a 1′s and 0′s existence to our physical space and then takes the user to the digital world in one click. The cursor is embedded with a GPS device which transmitted its geographic coordinates to a website. These coordinates were mapped in Google Maps cataloguing its movements in real time, allowing for participants to see their collective influence moving the cursor around.
“During the festival participants could also upload photos of the cursor at the website. The photos were automatically placed on the map by matching the photos’ digital time stamp with the GPS coordinates.”
So damn fun and interactive. For more on the Urban Cursor and more on Sebastian Campion.
Typeface Tuesday 14: Public Gothic from the Antrepo Design Industry
November 3rd, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Antrepo Design is a cool design group who’s website I stumbled upon in my aimless wonders through the web. The other day they dropped the Public Gothic typeface beta for free dnld. I dig this font I am already using it in a poster that is in process for my ‘Song Title Series’. PB family members are PB Square, PB Vintage, PB Circular, PB Federal. At the bottom is a link to go to there site to dnld the zip.
Here’s a link to there site to dnld this font family. ANTREPO4
