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Decorative Bodoni

Justin — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:07:43 +0000

When I first saw this I knew I had to get one of these… The Decorative Bodoni alphabet was produced by Nigel Bents, Paul Oakley and Jonny Holmes at Chelsea College of Art & Design. The original Bodini Poster typeface was laser cut out of 3mm plywood by Cut Laser Cut and mounted on type-high blocks in the college workshop. […]

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Godfather of Helvetica, Mike Parker Dies at 84

Justin — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:02:35 +0000

When we hear Helvetica, the normal person might associate it with the standard Grotesque font that is packaged with every Windows or Mac OS (among hundreds of applications). When a typographer hears Helvetica, they think of one of, if not the most technically sound type system designed in the past century. Originally designed in 1957 for the Haas […]

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Diablo III Fan Art Contest

Justin — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:38:19 +0000

Whenever they have a design contest on deviantart.com, you know you are going to see some sick stuff. And with the Diablo III Fan Art Contest, I’m postitive that we’re going to see creatively creepy stuff, especially for a 2 night trip to Blizzard HQ in Irvine, CA to meet the artists and developers of Diablo […]

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Good Practice: Regular Backups!

Justin — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:36:58 +0000

So, if you didn’t notice, good; but our site was down for a couple days. We lost a bunch of portfolio and blog posts which really sucks. This is a reminder to myself and all of the other people that forget to do regular backups of their websites when the work is really busy. Back […]

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Urine Powered Generator

Justin — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:10:42 +0000

I thought this was an amazing invention when I first saw this, imagine how many people this can benefit around he world, yes a bit strange, but very useful… Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel. They need a Kickstarter page for this, I’d donate… Read more […]

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Foldy960 Responsive Grids

Justin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:49:20 +0000

I ran across these Foldy960 Grids the other week while compiling data for the Microsoft Website Redesign post and found these quite useful in helping me understand the workings of Responsive Design from a couple of innovators… It’s a little kit and some extra classes to get you going on making your 960.gs design responsive.

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Circular Patterns From Text Phrases

Justin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:15:33 +0000

I ran across this last week and it immediately got a post to our Facebook account, after playing around with it for a week, I really think it deserves a post on the ol’ blog. With Phrase, it’s a breeze to make killer, meaningful circular patterns by just copy and pasting a phrase (also good for […]

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Lettering vs Calligraphy

Justin — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:11:44 +0000

Just ran across this site and thought it was awesome. Lettering vs Calligraphy is an ongoing project by Giuseppe Salerno and Martina Flor consisting of a visual dialogue between a letterer and a calligrapher, where they draw/write a letter responding to a keyword given by a moderator. The adventure aims to explore the capabilities of the two technical […]

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New Microsoft Website

Justin — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:33:31 +0000

I was scavenging the web yesterday for new info/tools for responsive web design and came across this awesome article on Paravel’s website digging deep into their redesign of the new responsive design for Microsoft‘s homepage. If you haven’t seen this or the article by Nishant Kothary it’s definitely worth a read. More on the redesign: paravelinc.com | rainypixels.com […]

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Sony’s Music Timeline of Type – Celebrating 125 Years!

Kelly — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:16:11 +0000

Happy Friday! Today I want to highlight Graphic Artist Alex Fowkes and his amazing type design tribute he put together for Sony Music 125th anniversary, it was an Music Timeline from 1887 thru present day composed of type and a few other various images. This 150 square meters of wall space that has this amazing 1000+ named artist tribute with […]

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