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
Swedish 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
Beautiful hand crafted type and illustrations from Alison Carmichael.
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- custom, handmade, script, style, typeface
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- font, scientific, table, typeface, visualization
‘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
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- brazil, cover, letterpress, magazine, movable type
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- font, helvetica, magic, typeface, writing
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
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- chocolate, confectionary, Food, letter, movable type, print
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
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