Daily Drawings
“When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.” -Tibor Kalman
Freelance graphic designer and illustrator Chris Piascik posts new drawings every Monday through Friday. Follow Chris on Tumblr.
“When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.” -Tibor Kalman
Freelance graphic designer and illustrator Chris Piascik posts new drawings every Monday through Friday. Follow Chris on Tumblr.
In 2010 Wieden + Kennedy launched the fastest growing and most popular interactive campaign in history “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” for Old Spice featuring the now internet famous Isaiah Mustafa. Designer Shelby White took the statistic from the campaign and created this information graphics poster inspired by the typographic style of Massimo Vignelli. Here are a few of the impressive statistics from the campaign:
Custom chalk typography by Brooklyn, New York graphic designer Dana Tanamachi. During the day she helps create amazing work at Louise Fili Ltd specializing in packaging, branding and design for food and restaurants.
Much of design critique is focused on photography and other graphics. It’s time to shed light on the most basic element of communication: the type. At Fonts In Use we’ll catalog and examine real-world typography wherever it appears — branding, advertising, signage, packaging, publications, in print and online — with an emphasis on the typefaces used.
An independent project from Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles, and Nick Sherman that I plan on visiting quite often. Well done.
There’s always room for improvements. ”I’m gonna make it better.” Experimental animation by Climent Canal (idea & design), Sebastián Baptista (animation) and Aimar Molero (audio).
Found on Ventilate.ca
Visual stack of vintage LP stereo labels collected and curated by Project Thirty-Three. More proof that what is old becomes new again, especially when it comes to design styles.
idsgn looks at the Baskerville typeface in their eighth “Know Your Type” feature. Did you know that the designer was an illiterate clergy servant in the mid-1700s?
A useful jQuery plugin developed by Dave Rupert and Trent Walton for the forthcoming Operation Condor, that splits an HTML element into its component letters, words or lines for easier CSS styling. From the announcement:
We developed a really simple, lightweight, easy to use jQuery plugin, we’re calling it “Lettering Dot JS”, and we’re releasing it today for free over on Github. Let me demo it for you:
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Reblogged from Matthew Buchanan
Agency Dentsu London and BERG London team up to experiment with painting 3-dimentional typography using an iPad and long exposures.
Go ahead, take 5:35 minutes to watch this and get inspired to create something incredible.
Taking inspiration from early 1900s latin, hand-carved letterpress signs and vintage food labels, Mexican studio Esrawe created a fresh interior for Cielito Querido Café. The bold pink and blue typography combine with the natural materials give the café a unique feel.
Pictos by Drew Wilson is one of my favorite sets of icons that have made their way into virtually every design project over the last several months—including the Inspire Well theme. Converting the icon set into a font file seems like a genius move that lets you embed the icons as @font-face type. This allows the designer to have far more control over size, color and appearance of the icons with CSS text styling. The only downside I can think of would be random letters used for the icon font throughout your HTML.
Reblogged from Cameron Moll
Create a 100% original handwritten font on your iPad with iFontMaker then email the font to yourself to use in your designs or as a web font. See the fonts that other people have created with iFontMaker in the gallery.
Reblogged from Michael Galpert
Type foundry Font Shop put together a tool that allows you to try Web FontFonts on any website. See how a typography facelift would look on your site.
A field guide of typestaches designed by San Francisco art director Tor Weeks. The screen printed 18” x 24” poster is available on Old Tom Foolery
Via Fast Co. Design