Graphic design can change your life - Erik Spiekermann
A short about Eriks background, thoughts and processes.
A great little watch.
Fontfonter - try any font on your website
FontFont have a new service allowing you to preview fonts on your site.
You are able to select serif and sans independently or both at the same time.
Great little idea! More info at FontFonter.
Æsir/Tom Hingston: YB1 icons
I’m currently working on an icon project, and whilst scouring the interwebs I came across this wonderful piece of work by Tom Hingston.
The YB1 phone is a stunningly well designed piece of work by Copenhagen based entrepreneur Yves Béhar and his venture Æsir. The typeface and phone icons are designed by Tom Hingston, The phones good looks come at a price, a whopping €7,250.
TypeClock
From the iTunes AppStore:
Are you a typography lover? If you love artistically subtle design elements of typefaces, this is for you. On your crystal clear iPhone screen, enjoy the crisp vector shapes of Serif, Apex and Terminals of gorgeous typefaces in large scale. You can set own character set, type size and transition speed.
Simply gorgeous…
Lovely Helvetica posters
A Grotesk love affair
A typographic experiment - Favourite Sans Serif Typefaces
Good designers like fonts. Great designers find them physically arousing.
With this thought in mind, we set out to dramatize designers everlasting love affair with Grotesk fonts, and democratically determine which one got designers’ juices flowing the most.
We designed a poster inviting people to vote, with the promise that their name would appear on the final product, and posted it on various design blogs and social media sites.
The web address on the poster directed users to a site (http://vote.ryanatkinson.info) with multiple examples of Grotesk fonts, and allowed them to vote for their favourite.
This information was then translated into statistical data, and used as the basis for the design, where we used typographical grids to layout all the information.
The PDF’s are now available for download. enjoy!
By Ryan Atkinson and Stephen de Lange
Wanken: Typefaces of the World
A lovely designed poster:
http://blog.wanken.com/7644/typefaces-of-the-world-poster/
Which reminded me of this project I did quite a few years back:
