Category Archives: Typography

Mac dock spelling

  • Jun 25, 2009

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Now this has obviously been staring me in the face for years but i’ve never picked up on it. Can you make words out of the Mac dock icons, well yes you can!

Originally started by Art Director Mike Giepert it has took on a life of it’s own. I first came accross it at thenextweb.

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Dave Worthington

  • Jun 16, 2009

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Mr Worthington is a multi talented graphic designer with a sharp eye for detail and layout who I have known for years. He’s decided this year to venture into the wold of freelance, so if you’re looking for a good designer/art director to work on any projects you need look no further. His expanding portfolio site is dworthington.co.uk.

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Alphabet Drawers

  • Jun 11, 2009

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Gorgeous hand crafted solid oak drawers from kentandlondon.com inspired by vintage wood block letters. Simply beautiful!

Food type!

  • Jun 08, 2009

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Type Battle 37 – Food Font! The challenge over at Typophile.com is craft the name of any food out of the food itself. Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.

Why not give it a go and upload the fruits of your labours.

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Stefan Sagmeister

  • Jun 03, 2009

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Stefan Sagmeister gives a very inspiring talk on why design can make you happy. From one of the TED series of lectures you can access from TED or their Google channel.

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2012 Olympic Games Posters

  • May 29, 2009

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Simply beautiful Transport for London posters for the 2012 Olympic Games. I don’t think that there is going to be as much controversy over these as there is over the Wolff Olins logo.

Some more information at ministryoftype and by the originator himself Alan Clarke

Logos, logos, logos

  • May 27, 2009

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Whilst doing some brand identity research recently I delved into my book collection and trawled through the traditional avenues, books that most designers will be familiar with including the Los Logos series. I then set about trawling the internet and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of sites dedicated to art of logo/identity design.

I know I have only scratched the surface with this but those that are worth a mention are Logo of the Day, Lo8os, Logolog and Logo Design Love.

As usual with these online collections some examples are good but lot’s are pretty average!

Try Drugs

  • Apr 02, 2009

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When your going through this website you quickly come to the conclusion that this is a simply genius solution to what was potentially a difficult and demanding creative brief. Great short simple copy alongside superb and frustrating interaction make this an annoyingly good site. Try Drugs now!

David Pearson

  • Mar 31, 2009

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I stumbled across this site last week after reading Johnson Banks – Thought of the Week. Absolutely gorgeous book sleeve design from David Pearson. Before setting up his own agency he was an Art Director at Penguin Books. A must see and I think that I am going to have a hole in my wallet after a trip to Foyles this week!

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Extra Large Type Furniture

  • Mar 30, 2009

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Continuing the theme of extra large typography I spotted these excellent storage units on the Fubiz blog. I have no idea where you can buy these ( I suspect they’re European) but I am trying to hunt down the manufacturer to get some costs.

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