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Wednesday, 11th March 2009

Periodic Table of Typefaces.

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

Tags:
  • font, scientific, table, typeface, visualization
 
Thursday, 5th March 2009

Borghierh/Lowe.

Tags:
  • agency, beauty, brazil, flash, font, interface, minimal
 
Friday, 21st November 2008

A marker pen that writes in Helvetica.

A magic marker indeed!

Tags:
  • font, helvetica, magic, typeface, writing
 
Monday, 6th October 2008

YouWorkForThem relaunches.

The all new YouWorkForThem has arrived
Order, download, browse and enjoy the new site.

Tags:
  • artist, font, magazine, poster, prints, redesign, video
 
Tuesday, 16th September 2008

Random typography jokes.

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!”

Tags:
  • arial, Design, font, graphic, helvetica, joke, typographer
 
Wednesday, 6th August 2008

Fontpark 2.0 is just bloody awesome.

This is so awesome!
Another piece of brilliance from Yugo Nakamura…

[Thanks, Steve!]

Tags:
  • flash, font, japan, kanji, typeface, yugo nakamura
 
Wednesday, 7th May 2008

Libretto Suits, Bite Oil Trust, Subtitle Riots, Turbo Elitists, Soul Tit Biter and other anagrams.

Nice anagrams and even better prints

Tags:
  • anagram, bag, eastpak, font, print, tit, typeface, typography
 
Monday, 21st April 2008

The Italic Poster.

Poster by Eivind Søreng Molvaer — limited edition screen prints are available

Tags:
  • clever, eivind molvaer, font, italic, oblique, poster
 
Thursday, 31st January 2008

Neo Tech.

Neo Tech, designed by Sebastian Lester

Beautifully geometrical, Neo Tech is a superbly designed sans font. We have been using it for a client at work for a couple of months already, and it’s a joy to use. It’s available from fonts.com for about S$80.

Tags:
  • font, Sebastian Lester, technologic, typeset
 

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