Letters Are Pictures of Things, Pt. 1: Garamond Powerline
Eric Gill once said “Letters are things, not pictures of things”, stressing the intimate bond between typography and the physical world. Daniel Adolph of German design bureau 0c/0m/0y/0k and Düsseldorf based graphic collaboration with Alex Klug Royal Grafico inverted this relationship. His photographic project Garamond Powerline takes pictures of things – assorted details of powerlines – and converts them into letters, using the classic typeface Garamond as a model. The alphabet which exists solely as images has ignited the imagination and earned the admiration of bloggers all over the world.
-
News
The latest in the world of typography, lettering, and type design.
-
Handpicked Typefaces
Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
-
Type Tips
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
-
Fonts in Use
Specimens are nice, but we love to catch a typeface in the wild, where it can truly show how it performs in the real world.
The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.
Related Posts
- Lack of Typographic Imagination: Stating The Obvious
- The Flickr group LTypI: Lack of Typographic Imagination collects pictures of logos where the name – or parts of the…Read more
- The Magic That Is Letterpress
- Some of you digital age kids ;) may not recognize what the images in our introductory post are, so maybe…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
- How to Write like an Architect
- In a 2.5 minute video Kung Fu architect Doug Patt demonstrates how to become a skilled letterer.…Read more
- Revived, Refined, & Refreshed: MT, ITC, LT, & Adobe
- The Monotype, ITC, Adobe, and Linotype libraries were all updated last month with new releases and specially priced value packs.…Read more
The FontFeed RSS
1 Comment:
I was just looking for letters for a kids program and found this sight. I spent over 35 years working for Florida Power [now Progress Energy] in line work and this picture letter impressed me.
Post a comment: