Our beloved Helvetica is now featured with Swiss typographic style on a deck of cards. For the gambler and the typophile on your list, Helveticards are a beautiful, usable alternative to today’s ubiquitous French sets. Both master type designer Max Miedinger (who gave us this famous font) and Poker Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson would be happy to deal this deck. Discounted to $7.50 … Continued
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Design is more than making things pretty.
Feeling inspired today by this quote by Paola Antonelli about the role of designers in the world. Antonelli is a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.
Crystal Towers are beacons of light for Chihuly’s hometown in Tacoma, Washington
The Crystal Towers were by far my favorite installation on the Chihuly Bridge of Glass in Tacoma. The two towers rise forty feet above the bridge deck with the intention to serve as beacons of light for the bridge and city. All of the glass installations around and in the Museum of Glass and inside the old … Continued
The Very Breast Packaging Design
We went out and did a quick survey of our local Quality Food Center to see what products looked pretty in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month(BCAM). Pink is my favorite color, so I love October at the grocery store. I really thought there would be more products rockin the pink, but we still found … Continued
Pink P’s Fight for Breast Cancer Awareness
Seeing that October is breast cancer awareness month, we thought it would be appropriate to feature a very special theme for our second guest fight. For this bout we are featuring two close friends portraying letters plastered in pink and polished with pretty. Yes, they are doing pink P’s. Laura Schwamman and Michelle Pais might seem like good friends, but pin … Continued
The Squint Test Helps you Win KernType
Online kerning game. Quite nerdy, quite fun:) I hope they expand upon the first 10 words. Anything typography related, especially kerning always makes me think of my ole’ swiss design professor Peter Megert, wonder if he would approve? I think he would. KernType is part of Method of Action, an online course to help programmers learn design.
Steve Jobs, Typography, Death, and Dots
An excerpt from the Stanford Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and … Continued
OSXI: Is Apple’s OS strategy inspired by This is Spinal Tap?
I really hope that the sole reason behind Apple’s operating system names is this eventual Spinal Tap joke. It’s too perfect. OSX + iOS = OSXI.
3D Unicorn Promotional Poster for UK Band
3D poster marketing in the streets of London. These 3D horse posters were placed alongside London’s street art to promote the band Dry The River. Created by FOAM / Sony Music Creative with no small amount of input from current intern Xavier Barrade. Each horse took around 35 hours to build. See the process for creating … Continued
PBS Off Book: Typography
The second episode of Off Book, a new web series from PBS that explores the elements and boundaries of the arts. Follow the Off Book Tumblr to stay up to date.