Wow... what a great resource. Peter Gabor, from design et typo blog (FR), has put together a nice gallery collection, categorized by author or theme, that is a pleasure to browse. Go take a look at the Design&Typo Site.
Some examples:
The Thinking for a Living series is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.
Lots of resources...Check out the typography section.
Nice idea:
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Snoil, a sensitive skin of oil, is a great interactive piece by Martin Frey.
Ferrofluid is a liquid that reacts to magnetism. It is attracted by magnets, pretty similar to iron. This can lead to areas where the liquid partly resists to gravitation when a magnet approaches. Thereby a small bump is formed close to the loadstone. This behavior is enabled by magnetic nano-particles that are suspended in a carrier fluid. Normally the particles are coated with a surfactant to prevent their agglomeration. This results in stable ferrofluid dispersions.
Snake + Oil = SnOil
There are different reasons, why an interesting application for the ferrofluid-display is based on the game Snake: the food pieces are shaped out of the surrounding fluid and are instantly converted to the snakes body after consumption. So the growth in length of the snakes tail comes along with a real swelling volume of the collected fluid. The snake on the screen is steered by a joystick or a keyboard whereas the input interface of SnOil relies on a straighter action: The player holds the whole ferrofluid-basin in his hands and controls the flow direction of the snake by slightly tilting in the according direction. The controller measures this by tilt-sensors.
See the video here.
Chronotext is a growing collection of software experiments exploring the relation between text, space and time. By Ariel Marka, a designer and programmer based in Tel-Aviv.
There´s a very nice gallery at Flickr showing some ads from medical/pharmaceutical magazines "Clínica Rural" and "Glosa" from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
Source: David Airey
From Fontblog I found Manuel Kiem and his fantastic project: the Typecube. It´s a relatively simple but very strong ideia, based on combination of forms. I specially like the way the letters get represented, like if the Y is saying: "I need to have this form, you know, for my brother E to be OK too..." Isn´t this a very essential part in typography?
Type for you is now a proud member of Design-Feed, a feed-aggregator site, containing news from several sites covering graphic and web design, as well as art or advertising. And every post is searchable by keyword.
Very good service to the community. :)
Veteran graphic design/typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing: David Dabner talks... giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers make students sloppy.
A film covering the basics of typography, as well some nice set of rules to apply type on a low resolution screen, like a normal TV.
In Spanish, but pretty easy to follow anyway.
A nice blog with Paul's favorites book covers. Almost all these books he has bought in second hand shops and he rarely payed more than a couple of pounds for each one.
Here in the picture there´s a beautifull Penguin example.
The typography was originally based on Franklin Gothic, over 100 years old and still looking as fresh as a daisy. Strong, solid, clear, no messin’. Then it was a matter of getting it flowing together smoothly, focusing on the shapes of each character and almost morphing them into each other so that it wasn’t just four independent letters but one seamless sculptural piece. This involved a lot of squinting and standing back until it felt right.
This is an example of what you can find at Brand New, a Speak Up spin-off displaying opinions, and focusing on corporate and brand identity work. It is a division of UnderConsideration.
If you´re a fan of magazine covers like I am, you´ll love this resource.
Clip/Stamp/Fold is an amazing researh and collect work by a team of Ph.D. candidates at the School of Architecture at Princeton University:
An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities. Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals. The terms “little” and “magazine” are not taken at face value. In addition to short-lived radical magazines, Clip/Stamp/Fold includes pamphlets and building instruction manuals along with professional magazines that experienced “moments of littleness,” influenced by the graphics and intellectual concerns of their self-published contemporaries.
Update: Also check out Colophon2007 and Magculture
Based on the book The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst and Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller-Brockmann and also some of the major web sites on typography comes The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web.
A great resource for those who work with type on the digital medium, all this made possible by Richard Rutter.
Very nice photo set on Flickr on the New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970).
Kuler is the first web-hosted application from Adobe Labs designed both to stand alone and to complement Adobe® Creative Suite® 2 components. Built using Macromedia® Flash® and ActionScript 3.0, kuler is all about color: color for exploration, inspiration, experimentation and sharing.
Also check out COLOURlovers!
Here´s a handy resource:
You can download from Typeco character reference charts in PDF for Mac, Windows, and combined.
An Academic Resource. (And also a Foundry.)
Really worth your visit. A directory, archive and educational aid for design students, educators and professionals who are seeking information about type; its history, manufacture, use and artistic significance.
Some great movies here.
