Create and build your own font
I’ve used StumbleUpon for sometime now, its a great way of, well, stumbling upon art and design related sites you just wouldn’t usually have found. Recently I came across Fontstruct a great little site...
View ArticleDesign Book Review – Hand Job : A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry
This is the first in a monthly series of design book reviews, where I’ll cover the books that really are inspiring to me or are just a great design resource. The books I’ll be covering will range in...
View ArticleArtist / Designer Interview 2 – Oddhero
This months artist / designer interview is with Oddhero a duo who design and sell Prints and TShirts … David Gray and Stewart Bremner are two of Oddhero’s founders. Gray is based in New York City,...
View ArticleIdentify that font: ‘What the font’ for the IPhone
I Needed to share this little story I spotted over at swiss-miss.com MyFonts have introduced WhatTheFont for iPhone WhatTheFont can identify a fonts name from an upload image. The iPhone version of...
View ArticleWhat type are you?
Great bit of fun over at Pentagram with their ‘What Type Are You?’ interactive piece. Turns out I’m ‘Universal’ have a go and let us know What Type You Are…
View ArticleAre you a Comic Sans Criminal?
If you are this website is here to help www.ComicSansCriminal.com . “Helping people like you to learn to use Comic Sans appropriately.” A tongue in cheek look at how the typeface has been used and...
View ArticleKernType – A Kerning Game
I can’t imagine there are many kerning based games knocking about the internet, so it was great to stumble upon this one via Twitter. ‘Kern Me’ is a Html 5 built website that challenges designers and a...
View ArticleIdentify any web typeface you see on the web
A great little tool for website designers, website developers and alike. Fount enables you to identify any live typeface on the web. Just drag the button found over at the Fount website into your...
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A typeface alternative to Lorem Ipsum
There really aren’t many alternatives to good old Lorem Ipsum when creating design mockups without real text. That is until now, ‘Blokk’ is a typeface that acts as dummy text for design work, and...
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125 Well Designed Free Fonts for 2015
The number of well designed free fonts you can find on the internet these days is staggering. Many of them rival some paid typefaces, all though you can’t beat the classics. There’s a massive...
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3D Printed Typeface
Some interesting work here from Zhou Hongtao, a designer, who has mixed type design with 3D printing to create the above 3D Printed Typeface. It’s almost sculptural with different levels of...
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What typeface is best for me? Infographic
A rather excellent infographic which offers a very simple basic guide to what the best ‘font’ or indeed typeface is depending on usage. Looking at a very brief history of typefaces, difference...
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A Typeface That Changes Like a Memory
A very interesting project caught my eye this week. The concept of memory and how it’s not a solid thing but more of a shifting fluid idea overtime. This idea has been reflected in a new typeface...
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DIY typography for Pick Me Up 2016
A very hands-on experimental project for the Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Festival. You can create your own DIY typography and letterforms by using their online tool and then submit them for inclusion...
View ArticleThis dual use typeface merges braille with type you can see
What a great idea for a dual-use typeface, overlaying both braille and a usable typeface. Very smart indeed. See this story in full at: FastDesign
View ArticleThe handwriting of music legends Bowie, Cobain, Lennon as typefaces
There something intimate about seeing these song lyrics from musical legends in the handwriting they were scribbled down, created and constructed in. They communicate more than just the sum of their...
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