Category

Typography

• Apr 18 2008
  Text Clock at Fuori Salone 2008 by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Apple, Art, Associative Thought, Data Presentation, Design, Engineering, Product Design, Typography, Visualization

  This clock by Christiaan Postma is fantastic. At first, it looks like a Sol LeWitt conceptual art piece. Then, you realize that some of the lines are turning to form the word of the hour. You can see the words forming and going back into chaos, which I guess tells you how far along you are in the hour. This part reminds me of the Mondaine "Don't Rush" wristwatch. Let's see this Christiaan Postma piece as a wristwatch! (...or an iPhone app.) (clock found via Pan-Dan)
  
  
• Mar 24 2008
  iLT: Letterforms, Classification, Ps & Qs by Christian Eager
  Language, Typography

  If you want to talk like you're in-the-know when it comes to type—or even just understand what those typophiles are going on about— this article on terminology over at I Love Typography is a treasure. It starts with basics: the difference between glyphs, graphemes, sorts, and characters, to list a few closely-related concepts. Then come the broad classifications, with a bit of required history, and an awesome portmanteau (inelegantly referred to as a "mash-up"), "Garalde"—Claude Garamond + Aldus Manutius. Trivia nerds will find the conclusion, containing the origins of "uppercase," "lowercase," and "mind your p's and q's", most rewarding.
  
  
• Feb 13 2008
  Woody Allen by David Goligorsky
  Art, Design, Film, Graphic Design, Typography

  I came across these images of Woody Allen by Rosita Estevez on the Behance Network. They're based on his film "Zelig," in which Woody Allen is the star of a false documentary about a person who has social chameleon effects. e.g. In the company of British ladies, he will become a British lady. For those Woody Allen fans out there, I also just found out (via NotCot) that the typeface used in all his film credits is EF Windsor Elongated.
  
  
• Feb 12 2008
  Back to the Futura by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Art, Graphic Design, History of Design, Typography, history

  Perpenduum took a trip to Portland, Oregon for the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (images will follow when I find the disk space... come on Apple! Release that new MacBook Pro!) We stayed at the Ace Hotel, which ought to be a national treasure. The hotel has their own pencils which are black with brass-colored eraser couplings and pink erasers. The pencil is stamped with the hotel name in white Futura typeface. It's perfect. Born in 1924 via Paul Renner, it is one of the most widely used sans serif fonts. It can even be ...
  
  
• Dec 26 2007
  Interesting new method for text entry by David Goligorsky
  Associative Thought, Code, Computers, Data Presentation, Design, Engineering, Experience Design, GUI, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Language, Pragmatism, Remix, Science, Software, Typography, Visualization

  Dasher changes the paradigm of text entry from pushing buttons to navigating through words. Here's a YouTube demonstration of the technology and here's the Dasher website, which offers a test drive of the program. (via GUUUI) I recently watched The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It's a film based on the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was the editor-in-chief of Elle. He had suffered a massive stroke in 1995 that left his mind in tact, but his body was completely paralyzed except for one eye and eyelid. Needless to say, he could not speak. Speech ...
  
  
• Dec 12 2007
  Eames Aluminum Group Advertisement by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Architecture, Art, Graphic Design, History of Design, Typography
  
  
• Nov 25 2007
  Kern Zip-Up by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Misplaced Thoughts, Typography

  I always had a qualm with zip-ups due to the uneven spacing caused by the necessary rift in fabric to allow for the zipper mechanism. This zip-up from Veer looks good and provides a meta-definition of kerning. They should do the same thing with those terrible "gym" shorts with text across the rear. (via FFFFOUND!)
  
  
• Nov 19 2007
  Ever-Enterprising Helvetica by Christian Eager
  Misplaced Thoughts, Typography

  Another example of its ubiquity: I never noticed it before, mostly because it's a perfectly unobtrusive application of a perfectly unobtrusive typeface, one exuding function and elegance, eschewing attitude. Yes, I know I would have already known it was on the Shuttle had I seen the film. Yes, it's come to my town (twice), and I did not go. Bah.
  
  

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