Suckers for a good condensed font, we’re loving the bold, unexpected turns of the NSW01 typeface by Matt Willey, found via Typographica.
The Hinglish Project – a unique font that aims to help pronunciation, by overlaying English letters over Hindi characters.
Puma’s ‘Gaffer’ typeface looks rather splendid on the Italy shirt. Good job GBH !
Blackpool – it’s a horrible, God-forsaken place, a blight on the earth. The arrival of the really quite lovely Comedy Carpet makes it marginally less bleak.
SL Che . … Oh yes!
Fotolia’s new ad campaign is a striking typographic statement.
Cassius Clay is the first in a series of motion design shorts on the subject of motivational speakers by James Cook. Some nice type there
The release of the FC Autobahn typeface, created by Dutch graphic design studio Autobahn using traditional pitch marking methods, is fitting given the imminent arrival
The new “I Love New York” branding by Saatchi & Saatchi has been unveiled alongside the new state tourism website. As you can very clearly
Jolly nice new ads by BBDO London for Hackney’s Museum of Childhood. More here.
Better late than never – Typographica’s favourite typefaces of 2007, from such luminaries as David Berlow, Ellen Lupton and Erik Spiekermann.
The humble Post-It Note – life as we know it would come to an abrupt end without these excellent little squares of paper. Most people
Zigzag Zombie is an intriguing typography project from typeworkshop.com: “Take one long piece of material, and make letters by endlessly folding the material. Once you
I’ve just installed Oracle Database 10g Express Edition to a dev server running Fedora Core, following the detailed instructions supplied by Oracle. The instructions seem
Gaffer tape: as the old sound engineers’ line goes, it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Tokyo train
Check out the quirky illustrations by the talented young artist Gaz Barnett. See more at his MySpace page.
Thousands more photos from the streets of Japan at Flickr.
Sebastian Wrong’s Font Clock – a timepiece for typophiles. It’s jolly nice, but a little on the expensive side at £195 up to an eye-watering
The street art and graffiti of Moscow
The Jamaica Label Art website features over 1,000 examples of artwork and design from Caribbean vinyl releases.
Issue 3 of Wallspankers is out, the PDF sticker-zine showcasing the adhesive work of scores of international artists and designers.
The evergreen Helvetica is celebrated in a new documentary film by Gary Hutswit, scheduled for release in 2007, the 50th anniversary year of the typeface.
Brazilian designer Adhemas Batista’s updated portfolio is a real visual treat. http://www.adhemas.com/