“If we strip away the monitors, and the printing presses, and the typefaces … how would William Caslon have written on a post-it note?”

Do you need some typo inspiration? Step away from your computer and take a walk through the city…

Title says it all. Conference attended by several fonts. Made by CollegeHumor.

Special sunday big up to Hotel who just close down
their website on the 7th day of the week. I like it!

Design the poster for your favourite film. That was the
project WIWP set up, with designers like Nathan Fox,
Hellovan and Corey Holms. Most of the designs ended
up really (typo)graphical. The whole exhibition can be
seen at the Cosh Gallery in London. Wallpaper placed 
14 designs online.

These scarves look like the perfect gift for writers, typo fetishists and designers girlfriends. They´re available in lowercase, uppercase and even in numbers. Cool!

A collection of original business cards. It’s part two of a series, check part one here. Cool stuff, eventhough they didn’t include mine! This is reminiscent of a great scene from the American Psycho movie.

Type, space and motion in alphabetical order. Three great things in one video by Roi Sabarov, 4th grade student at the Jerusalem School of Arts. The music was composed by a talented new kid named Johann Sebastian Bach.

Tiny documentary about ‘Fire Fly’, a company using the old letter press way of printing. Nice results on some awesome looking machines.

At first sight just another corporate logo, this time from U.K.’s Office of Government Commerce. But wait, what happens when you tilt your head 90 degrees to the left.

It’s a free font-building tool by FontShop and lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid
pattern, like tiles or bricks. Sweet interface.

Dropclock is a motion screensaver from tha ltd. Every minute of real time is expressed with heavy Helvetica numbers dropping into water in a ultra slow-motion.

Cool type book!

Sweet font by Björn Johansson.

It’s the movie font.

Jeremy Pettis created a series of typographic illustrations. Each letter of the alphabet representing an animal in appearance or behaviour.

An interesting interview with the popular typographer collective that was schooled in The Hague and works from 3 different cities, in 2 different countries. They are Underware.

Fine type from Europe. They even got Amalia!

Nice cuckoo letters from mr. Letman. (via SpaceCollective)

So the other night I was attending at PechaKucha what was kind of fun. Utrecht based design agency Autobahn was there as well and told about their FreshFonts project. They took Helvetica and tried to redraw it with glue, tomato juice and toothpaste which ended up with free downloads of Gelvetica, Tomatica and Heldentica.

He’s a Spannish designer. His site’s title is ‘Creativity, Type & Illustration’, wich basicly says it all. Lovely work and I like the way the site scrolls.

Cool typo by Lowman. Check his portfolio for more nice typographic art stuff.

What happends when you combine typography with motion? That all depends on how it’s done.

Here is a list of 10 great examples where putting words of movies, scetches and songs into motion really looks good.

A cool site where you can make nice type animations.

It uses 80 typefaces from Veer’s umbrella collection. Other people will call it a Parra ripoff. I just call for some rain to come.

Exactly 25 years ago prof. Scott E. Fahlman send an electronic mail to his students using the now world famous ASCII emoticon :-)

A poster with an alterable structure to display messages. Made by Jessica Nebel. Sweet.

This is a nice project from labworks. You can write a message with typography pictures from flickr.

Check out this selection of music videos that use animated typography. Nice stuff but I definitely miss this one! (via Computerlove)

Oi. This form is not new, but these are still nice typographic illustrations by a geezer named Oscar Wilson for Visit London. The goal is to bring more blokes to visit London’s famous areas, attractions and events. Oscar and his brother Ben also have a blog.