One of the first Typography virals i’ve seen… Shame it’s so fictional, I mean Comic Sans…. Really?
Have a leaf through the Typography category
I ffffound this beautiful wooden typography & ornamentation. The effect is amazing and what makes it all the more drool-worthy is that these designs are being engraved onto skateboards!
I’m not sure if this should be in Desirables, Typography or Design because it’s all three for me! If only I could get my hands on the machinery – imagine the projects you could do! Via ffffound
Update: After a little more research I found the original Flickr group that the photos came from
It is an almost ‘invisible’ typeface which has legibility as its main attribute and is ideal for a wide range of design works. It does not attract any unnecessary attention, but rather serves its purpose.
The European Design Awards 2008 just finished. Celebrating the best European design, setting the benchmark, promoting and raising standard for communication design throughout europe. There where some excellent winners this year (I strongly recommend you check out the official ED Awards website).
I (and forgive me) hadn’t realised there was going to be an Original Typeface category until it was announced! It went to Centro Pro (well deserved) a solid family (slab/serif/sans). Parachute are a relatively small foundry & in my opinion it was really deserved.
I went onto parachutes blog (parachutefonts.blogspot.com and the exctiement from them firsthand spills out into one of their posts.
“…it is awards like these that make you feel that your work is appreciated, it is awards like these that make you feel responsible for your work, it is awards like these that raise your standards, but most of all these awards make you believe in yourself and your work”.
I love it when good type gets recognized & when the details are counted!
Another great thing about Centro/Parachute & and something that makes me warm to it more is the fact they documented its construction. From their initial type requirements and design aspects to revisions, quality control and variations. They covered it pretty well and if your at all interested in the construction of type or creating typefaces it’s brilliant! The construction of the typeface is available on their blog. I strongly recommend the read!
Parachute have documented the event and have centro pro samplers on their flickr at http://flickr.com/photos/parachutefonts/… Check out the trophie. What a beauty!!
Love Typography? Here’s a few other posts that might interest you…
- A great typography t-shirt – this years typophile t-shirt design competition winner.
- I Love Typography – an animation I did as a tribute to the fantastic iLT blog.
I’m a big fan of typography, and a regular reader of ilovetypography.com. In my opinion, it’s a one stop shop for your type fill.
Every Sunday theres a monster post that pretty much sums up the best of the weeks typographic news, the guy who writes it is a switched on, serious typofile! Anyway it makes for a great read and I had an hour or so free so I spent it on cubescape making both a tribute to the site and to slab serifs everywhere!
Update: Made it onto the official iLT Sunday Type
I twittered this over to Johno who writes iLT & he liked it so much he put it on his Sunday Type, Ale Paul Type. What an honor, I’m absolutely chuffed about it! As suggested in the comments, gonna work on a wallpaper version. Will post the update as and when.
Love Typography? Here’s a few other posts that might interest you…
- Typeface of the year 2008 – a look at the rather tasty Centro Pro and this years design awards. Includes a great link to the making of the typeface.
- A fantastic typography t-shirt – this years winner of the typophile t-shirt competition.
