Typedia is a brand-new community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type.
Congrats to the fabulous crew behind Typedia! Well done!
quotes alphabet by Miha Ta from Bulgaria.
I have never thought this would happen, but here I am, *excited* about Cufflinks: Ampersand Faux Cufflinks. Yes, please!
Does your t-shirt lower your carbon footprint and improve air quality and reduce your utility bill? This t-shirt does. This shirt is part of the Holiday Matinee Artist Series, which means they donate 100% of proceeds from every t-shirt sold to Plant-It 2020. That means every time you buy a shirt you plant, maintain, and protect twenty trees. It’s that simple, plus all shirts are tag-free and 100% organic. How’s that for a designy do-good-feel-good gift?
About the artist: Nikki Farquharson is a left-handed designer living in London, England. She’s obsessed with letters, lines, patterns, shapes and colors. For this project, Nikki wrote a poem where every word ends in the same sound of Holiday Matinee.
Andrew Byrom made giant 3D letters from fabric and wood. They kept blowing away, so he made letter kites.
(via @veerupdate)
iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.
Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car.
The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )
Here’s a fun new way to kill time: Mac Dock Icon Spelling. Send in yours!
Zoolgical Typeface, by Jamie Gregory, is an expansion of the typeface VAG Rounded developed specifically for zoo signage.
(thank you francesca)
How fantastic are these Marquee Alphabet Lights? Oh my!!
Inspired by vintage printing blocks, this beautifully finished chest of 26 drawers is made from solid oak – the perfect place to file everything from A-Z! (Yes, this dresser made me gasp for air!)
(via minordetails and theartroom)
Found this on ffffound.com. Who can I give credit? By Tom Gabor.
The Buddy Carr Limited Edition Skateboard, designed by Antonio Carusone makes me want to pick up Skateboarding. What a beauty!
I was gasping for air when I discovered Heather Lin’s Numbered Napkins. Print beautiful type on pretty much anything and I’ll rejoice.
Houseindustries developed this beautiful, compact set of 12 Neutraface Slab alphabet blocks that will transmit subliminal stylistic messages to both young impressionable minds or the odd dolt whose narrow view of typography is defined by a partial screening of the Helvetica movie.
A Treasury of Wood Type Online, an interesting new read over at Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Write any message you’d like within the 2 rows of 8 grooved squares – the raised sections will guide your marker on the right track. LCD Card.
London design consultancy, Johnson Banks, created a series of nice posters in the mid-nineties based entirely on letterforms made from folded or ‘found’ paper-related objects. Beautiful!
(via letterology)
