All Blog Posts Tagged 'typography' (40)

Typography Bikes (5 total)

You'd never mistake your bike for anyone else's if you had one of these by French designer Juri Zaech! And most likely you'd make new friends as strangers called out your name. Cleverly called Write a Bike, this series just shows concepts but Juri's looking for a way to prototype them soon. Love the retro vibe.…

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Added by alice on October 13, 2010 at 6:30am — 3 Comments

Creative Experience: Greenville Literacy Association Street Illusions (4pics + video)

Greenville Literacy Association, a group that helps illiterate adult students, are out to promote their "Really Good, Really Big, Really Cheap Book Sale", a fair where books are sold at a bargain price. And what better way to do that than street illusions!

The concept behind this, created by the Bounce… Continue

Added by Amy Wong on September 22, 2010 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

Cool Graffiti-Inspired Fonts

Everyone here knows I'm a big fan of Banksy and I also like a lot of other street artists - so when I saw this collection of fonts inspired by graffiti I was instantly hooked. PSDeluxe has collected 50 graffiti-inspired fonts from across the web and put them together in… Continue

Added by Mark Huckabee on June 27, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

Typographic Chessboard

The white pieces are set in Caslon Bold Condensed and the black in Univers Bold Condensed, each respectively representing the traditional and modern sides of typography. The pieces are cast in resin and the board is 10mm black acrylic with 45 degree lines laser engraved to represent the squares.

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Added by Yasmine Zalek on May 20, 2010 at 3:02pm — 2 Comments

Hyperactivitypography from A to Z

Studio 3, an in-school design agency at the Graphic Design Department of Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo made a really nice and fun activity book for typographers illustrated in a nostalgic vintage style to give it a sweet and childlike look.

The book is packed with activities, ranging from silly to hard core nerdiness.

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Added by Yasmine Zalek on May 10, 2010 at 4:38am — No Comments

Facebook Holiday Gift

As a Christmas gift to its top advertising clients, Facebook typically gives money to donate to a charity of their choice, along with a special item like last year's reusable shopping bag. This year they decided to do an art poster and the in-house Communication Design Team got to work.

The result is a 19 × 19-inch-square poster that is printed, embossed and foiled with a delicate, intricate… Continue

Added by Yasmine Zalek on December 22, 2009 at 3:52am — 4 Comments

A Poem Comes to Life Through Type - Taylor Mali

Easily one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time. Ronnie Bruce creates this Typography Animation project using Taylor Mali's poem. The lesson? Speak with conviction. Got to love that.

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Added by alice on November 23, 2009 at 1:24pm — No Comments

A Cool Typography Film About Our 5 Senses

Check out this cool typography film created by BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. It's a visual typographic feast about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity.

Coolest part? There are no CG effects.

I love it when words comes alive!

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Added by alice on September 14, 2009 at 9:06am — 2 Comments

The “Yes We Can” Inauguration Rug

[Design Fetish via Modern Urban Living]

Added by Yasmine Zalek on August 12, 2009 at 12:11pm — No Comments

Typography Necklaces and Other Nerd Jewelry

This jewelry is as nerdy as it gets and that's why I like it. These typography necklaces and other jewelry pieces were made by plastique* on Etsy. Check out her store for some other cool stuff.

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Typography Necklaces and Other Nerd Jewelry

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Added by Kevin Chung on August 9, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Ebon Heath's Typographic Mobiles

Ebon Heath is an artist from Brooklyn who created these typographic mobiles. Here's what he said when describing the origins of the project "I want our type to jump, scream, whisper and dance, versus lay flat, dead and dormant, to be used and discarded with no concern for its intricate beauty of form, function, and meaning." You can read the whole interview at…

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Added by Kevin Chung on June 30, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

ABC Yo-Yo Typography

ABC YO-YO (full version) from abcyoyo on Vimeo.…

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Added by Kevin Chung on June 23, 2009 at 10:03pm — No Comments

Said Why Eggs? - 26 Alphabets by 26 Artists

Said Why Eggs? Alphabet

These pieces were part of an exhibition titled Said Why Eggs? at the East End Arts Club in London. It showcases 26 alphabets by 26 different artists. Check out the prints here.

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Said Why Eggs? Alphabet

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Added by Kevin Chung on May 23, 2009 at 10:38pm — 1 Comment

Steve Jobs in Typography By Dylan Roscover

How amazing is this? Designed by Dylan Roscover, a self professed design geek, this portrait of Steve Jobs is a typeface-driven design based on the "Here's to the crazy ones" ad campaign from Apple in the 90s. Roscover used only those fonts present in Apple branding and products. I just love the… Continue

Added by alice on May 7, 2009 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

Mercedes-Benz Uses Typography, Cleverly

Check out this video (in HD):

Interesting new ad campaign for Mercedes-Benz's new Brake Assist System, an electronic system which interprets the braking behavior of the driver and initiates the full braking effect when it identifies an emergency situation. This reduces the braking distance substantially.

"Most drivers, under normal braking conditions as well as under emergency conditions, start out with little brake pressure and whenever necessary they… Continue

Added by alice on April 29, 2009 at 11:13am — No Comments

The Luscious Work of Luke Lucas (9 Total)

There's something almost sinfully sexy about Luke Lucas's work. As an art director from Melbourne, Australia and co-founder of creative studio Lifelounge, Lucas is known to create new typography that's breaks new barriers. His work isn't just sinfully sexy, by combining images mixed with… Continue

Added by alice on March 21, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Typorganism

Check out this cool website where you can upload a pic and then have it turned into a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet (ASCII). A cool way to see yourself in numbers and letters!

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Added by alice on March 7, 2009 at 10:56pm — 6 Comments

20 Amazing Examples of Typography Art

As Robert Bringhurst, from The Elements of Typographic Style, once said, "Typography exists to honor content." I couldn't agree with him more. In fact, in this set of pictures words don't just honor content, they take on a meaningful life of their own.… Continue

Added by alice on February 27, 2009 at 12:57am — 3 Comments