‘This is a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue.’ It’s a nice little blog by 4 friends (of type) posting (and selling) their type experiments. You could also consider it a warm-up for Adobe User Group’s Type in Motion session, today.
While painting an installation at a Stüssy store in Tokyo (graffiti) artist Eric Haze took a rare interview with Defrag. He talks about comming up in a time where you could not rely on global communication for inspiration and contacts. You had to just make a name for yourself based on your skills and travel the road you love.
is a Dutch blogger who writes about his encounters with the opposite sex (in his case females). It’s always a pleasure, laugh and revelation to read his articles. So for the dutchies go and read:
The members of the Amercian Dialect Centre voted “tweet” as the word of 2009. Guess what they voted word of the decade… Both right choices if you ask me.
Interactive copywriters beware, your futures are in danger…or your life just got easier.
Finally someone dared to make a proper book about the corporate identity that was used to communicate the totalitarian ideology and practices of the National Socialists. Ofcourse a very sensitive subject for many as this identity was both brilliant as it was scary in its effect on the masses. You can read an interview with German graphic designer and author of the book Andreas Koop.
Yes, it’s the time again for Best-of-2009-lists. The New Work York Times Magazine made this interesting ABC list with the best ideas of 2009. Get ready for Advertisement That Watches You, Glow-in-the-dark Dogs and Printable Batteries. Yay!
“I have to have something to show prospective clients this week so would you be able to pull something together in the next few days? I will also need a couple of pie charts done for a 1 page website. If deal goes ahead there will be some good money in it for you.”
For the 5th Typophile Film Festival, BYU design students handcrafted these opening tittles. This process, that also included stop motion, filming and animation was overseen by creative direcor and faculty manager Brent Barson. I am amazed by the level of creativity and the craftmanship of making the typography.
I’m proud of my friend and fellow New Worker making it all the way to the cover of the respectable dutch magazine Vrij Nederland. Check out the seven page article on this college dropout by Maurits Martijn. Another magazine is coming up, more on that next week…
Normally designers hate standard scrollbars and go to great lengths to avoid them. Why not embrace them like these guys did and create something beautiful. Who says you can’t make a silk pure out of a sow’s ear?
Found this huge collection of movie titles, from 1900 till now. Lots of great type. Nice to see how things evolved, and in the end, are repeated.
from hell
We all know them, we all had them. Clients from hell.
This website collects the best (or should that be worst?) client horror stories from designers.
Nice piece of linguistic fun from the Booreiland team. With the Random Word Machine you’ll find just the right name for all your new work!
From now on I’ll start my days with a fact from Learn Something Every Day. (and will become unbeatable with Triviant Pursuit!) Lovely site by UK based design studio Young.
This is a Canadian art magazine I always wanted to post here for it is always on point with inspiring artwork and has a special touch for finding brilliant illustrators and painters. Founded by two artists in 2005 this quarterly magazine has a nose for what’s happening underground.
At LAIKA, some guys are trying to create dynamic scripts. Take a look at their interactive font that changes as you move your mouse around the screen. I’ve no idea how you could use it professionally, but it’s cool to see that it is working.
Pornographics Studio made a little tribute to the sublime titles of 70’s erotic movies. Gotta love those sleazy vintage images!
Not sure if it has been here before, but it’s def worth a post. Animation student Sjors Vervoort made this cool stopmotion movie from ehh.. cardboard! (thx thomas)
Toytype.com is a new initiative by the four creatives of Enchilada with the sole purpose of honouring their appetite for designing new fonts and messing around with characters. All the designs feature the word Toytype. In a way you can see it as a form of online grafitti.
Don’t ask me how I got on boerderij.nl. But they have a really bad ass calender called the ‘Stoere Boerenmei-denkalender‘. Yes, it’s amateur model girls posing on various farm locations and the real beauty is not really the kind of photos but the caption underneath. So watch but definitely read this calender (for dutchies only).
Shame on us for posting late on this: Well known dutch studio Dumbar caused a little ruckus charging 2.2 million euros for the University of Twente’s new visual identity, with a dot as the main element. Here is Dumbar themselves explaining their work. One way the identity was put to use is this great animation by Buro Knapzak.
The New York Times’ T magazine collected the T’s artists and designers made for the cover of its past issues. Now you can check them all!
You may remember that post by Bob about the brilliant blog Stuff white people like. Within that demographic there’s the small but scary culture of bored suburban American teenagers hooked on crunkcore. There’s a guy bloggin’ about it and he couldn’t have chosen a beter URL then this one:
“A group of artists comes together in locations around the world to create art pieces that spell out the philosophy of Absolut Vodka.” Not that fond of the concept, but it looks great. Since I don’t have a Facebook page I can’t view this link, it seems to have more info.
This year there’s another Design By Fire event being organised by Chi, the inspirational organisation that’s all about human computer interaction. The conference is in the Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht. Expect speakers like Tom Jenkins, Design Specialist at Nokia and Robert Hoekman jr, author of the upcoming title ‘Web Anatomy‘.
Sad but true signs, especially in these times. Published in the Pentagram Papers.
To promote the new Toyota iQ Pierre Smeets & Damien Aresta created a font with the car. You can download it here.