To continue a steady dose of design and/or typography related content recently, I offer up an interesting series I just came across from the new design blog idsgn called Know Your Type.
So far they have done the research of the history and usage of four different typefaces (all sans-serif so far) and presented it in a very well-done manner. A serif font is promised next in the series.
Gotham (made recently popular by a certain Presidential campaign)
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I don’t hide the fact that Adobe Illustrator and I aren’t necessarily friends. I’ve never been one to have the ability to draw much. And for being a related field, I feel like I should be better at logo design, but it just isn’t my forte.
Which is probably why videos like the following capture my attention so much. It’s 6 minutes long so you might just want to jump through some of it as it goes. It really gets interesting to watch once the logo creation gets started. And jump through to Mattson’s site to see the other renditions and final results.
No, I still won’t put Papyrus/Comic Sans on your website; but yes, hopefully someday in the future the opportunity to do so will become easier.
http://ilovetypography.com/2009/07/20/web-fonts-%E2%80%94-where-are-we/
If this clock is in production by Christmas, you can add it to my list. Minimal, functional, beautiful.
Battery operated, individual pieces, set time by touching each number and auto-adjustment to light to determine white or black numbers. More design like this, please.
(via swiss-miss)
I need to find a laser printer somewhere so I can download and print all six parts of this free, open-source toolkit “created to assist those organizations providing services for communities in need.” Created by IDEO and the Gates Foundation among others.
At a glance it looks to be a road-map in how to setup and/or assist organizations who aim to benefit those in less fortunate countries.