I’ve never been good with a pencil/sketchpad but about 4-5 months ago something spurred me on to sketch out a couple of letters that were in my mind on a Post-it. I spent a few days staring at them stuck to my desk when I finally decided to create the entire alphabet in my notebook.…
Somebody please do me a favor and find the origin of this poster. Must-have for the office. I might never tire of infographics. via Brent Jackson
If you haven’t already, I implore you to take a look at the fantastic new site, Lost World’s Fairs, by an all-star crew of dot-commers going by Friends of Mighty. My favorite right now is Atlantis by Frank Chimero but they’re all great in their own ways. The site itself is slightly nerd-eriffic in the…
It was nice to see dot-comrade Chris Bowler launch his newest Internet venture last week: Idea Cafe Like Chris, I have a notebook fetish and my to do lists often resort back to pen and paper so of course I am a fan of this one. I dig the fact that you can buy individual…
More like this, please. Hoefler Text, Black (via ampersandampersand)
Because I know the rest of you are as completely enamored with beautiful type like I am. From the ampersandampersand blog.
So I know its been quiet around here for the last couple of weeks. I am slowly getting towards the end of a major overhaul of this site that will hopefully suffice for a little while. I have a folder where I deposit random stuff I stumble across on the web that may or may…
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…
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/
On a scale from 1 to 10 on how excited I am to see what becomes of the soon-to-be released Typekit, I fall somewhere between 2,745 and infinity. Typekit, in their own words (emphasis mine): As a Typekit user, you‚Äôll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to…