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The complete works of Samuel Beckett, with a specially designed typefaces for the covers. Bold and beautiful work by the London studio, A2/SW/HK.

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  • a2swhk, cover, samuel beckett, typeface

 

Fucking simple. Fucking brilliant.

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  • bag, serif, tote, typeface

 

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  • alphabet, apple, icons, macintosh, OS X

 

As a font, 3x3 has some issues; as an idea, it is brilliantSwedish futurist, Anders de Flon, designed this typeface all within a 9 pixel area. Obviously, it has some issues if you were going to use it on a day to day basis (a rapid failure of your ability to see might become a creeping problem) but it’s one of those things that makes you wonder why you didn’t think of first. (Well, I am wondering why I didn’t think of it first anyway.)

By the way, if any of you knows Mr De Flon well, I implore you to please update his badly written Wikipedia entry — it currently reads like a horrible English to Chinese to English translation.

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  • brand, consultant, future, minimal, swedish

 

An 8 minute short for sponsors, made by Onesize, for OFFF 2009

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  • logo, special effects, typeface, video

 

Beautiful hand lettering work from British illustrator, Alison Carmichael

Beautiful hand crafted type and illustrations from Alison Carmichael.

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  • custom, handmade, script, style, typeface

 

Nice poster, grouped by san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed

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  • font, scientific, table, typeface, visualization

 

One page from the book, World of Logotypes, scanned by Eric Carl

‘World of Logotypes’ is an out-of-print book from the 70s that chronicled the logos of that era. Eric Carl scanned some pages of the book and has put it up on the internets for the world to marvel at.

[Via ISO50]

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  • 70s, al cooper, book, logo, style, typeface

 

The January edition of CR was handmade in a letterpress workshop in Brazil — Nice pictures on their blog detailing the process

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  • brazil, cover, letterpress, magazine, movable type

 

A magic marker indeed!

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  • font, helvetica, magic, typeface, writing

 

Characters “i” and “j” are swapped, “q” is the same as “g” but it’s a great idea for a typeface!

Ink Tape is a font designed by Merci Bernard, an art director from France who has a nice collection of work.

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  • art direction, experimental, france, graphic design, print

 

Delicious chocolate text!

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  • chocolate, confectionary, Food, letter, movable type, print

 

Numeral typography from race numbers found in Bradford

[Via grain edit]

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  • classic, england, flickr, numbers, racing, vintage

 

Keming

Helvetica looked at Arial and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Arial replied “Well, Aksidenz do happen”

What type of diabetes is a graphic designer most likely to get diagnosed with?
Type 1

A typographer’s favorite hotel in Las Vegas/casino in Singapore?
The Sans

A font walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, we don’t serve your type here” and he called the Serif.

What typeface do fish fear most?
Gill Sans

Favourite Bob Marley song
“I Shot The Serif”

Favourite Madonna song
“Justify My Love”

Why did the graphic designer go see the psychic?
He wanted to see what was in his Futura.

Arial looked at Helvetica and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Helvetica replied “Well, you’re no Ms Univers yourself!”

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  • arial, Design, font, graphic, helvetica, joke, typographer

 

Very nice handmade Letra(set) on Flickr
[Via TypeNeu]

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  • Art, flickr, letraset, letter, screentone, transfer

 

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