[Completely design unrelated]
I go to weddings because you’re supposed when you’re invited and because my wife likes them. My aim is to find out early (either pre-wedding or from the itinerary) how long the service will actually be lasting. It isn’t that I dislike them, but like most men, they aren’t my ideal Saturday afternoon/evening outing.
But I could get into weddings if more of them started like this:
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)