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My Type of Music
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover and a band by its album art.
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ScreenFonts
A typographic look at today’s movie posters and film titles. (a.k.a. Characters on The Silver Screen)
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Lovely Lettering
Typography is made with type, but some of the best letters are made one at a time, by hand.
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Oops!
A light-hearted repository of amusing typos and typographic mishaps.
Stefan Sagmeister/Mrs Eaves-like Cover For Esquire
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Bar Refaeli wears merely some lettering on her naked body on the July 2009 cover of Esquire.
Read moreTYPO Berlin 2009 Interlude – What Did Space Look Like?
In this brief interlude we look at the graphic identity of TYPO Berlin 2009 – Space.
Read morePost TYPO Berlin 2009 – Making Amends With Mrs Eaves
TYPO Berlin provided the perfect opportunity to iron out an editorial slip I made on Fontblog by inviting Australian Gemma O’Brien a.k.a. Mrs Eaves of “Write here, right now” fame.
Read moreSurvive The Financial Battlefield With Inlingua Business English
Optix Digital conjure up warfare in a world entirely made of words for an Inlingua Business English commercial.
Read moreSo Me Letters Lyrics To Kanye West’s Good Life
The music viceo to Kanye West’s hit “Good Life” features animated hand lettering and graphics by Ed Banger Records label designer So Me.
Read moreBack To The Eighties With Justice’s DVNO
I resisted for a whole year bur finally gave in – I had a go at identifying all the typefaces used for the mock eighties old-skool CGI television bumpers in Justice’s DVNO video.
Read moreTypography Made In Mumbai
For the cover of its April edition British trade magazine Creative Review had Grandmother India Design letter an original Indian Taxi.
Read moreThe Most Sportsmanlike Way To Design Letters
Takahiro Yamaguchi used the topography of Shibuya, Tokyo to design letter forms for his Urbanized Typeface project.
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- Red Group created a slew of print advertisements for the hit television series “Dexter”, made to look like mock covers…Read more
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- In looking for a dramatic font with Roman roots, the designers of “The Da Vinci Code” posters and marketing materials…Read more
- Vintage Ads Reveal Fashions And Trends In Type And Commercial Lettering
- Vintage Ad Browser is a gallery collecting vintage ads from a variety of sources, including books, magazines, comic books, posters,…Read more
- The Year In Pictures… In Type
- The 1972 end-of-the-year double issue of Life magazine reveals what were the popular typefaces in the early seventies.…Read more
- Tom Waits Lyrics On Human Canvas
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