The Ampersand has never been adverse to the odd makeover. As a typographer’s favourite, its history is cited to date back to 63 BC and was actually the 27th letter of the English alphabet up until the 19th century.
Photographer Emily Blincoe adds to this graphic symbols interesting lineage. Blincoe creates a series of visual puns that help to keep the ampersand young & beautiful. Visit Emily’s suitably titled This & That blog for more.
Experimental typography by Ruslan Khasanov. Why fuss over serifs and fancy ligatures when you have lenses and light. The appropriate descriptive here is ‘organic’. Yeh, let’s go with organic.
Without any pun intended, Farhad Moshiri’sLife is Beautiful message gets straight to the point; a typographic installation created with kitchen knives.
The film Connected is two years old now, which makes this post two years late, but it doesn’t matter.
Even if you never see the film, what I want you to do is watch this video, marvel at the diligent typesetting for the film’s poster, and give the creds some well deserved credit.
At first I though this was a very bad music video with a shoddy aspect ratio. However, beyond the first five seconds lies a song about hope, dedicated to everybody effected by the tsunami in Japan earlier this year.
Made as a collaboration between Google and Pilobolus, a Connecticut-based company of choreographers and dancer-athletes. The video even has the worlds first dance messenger, as well as a bunch of behind the scenes videos.
Ok Go manage to continuously pull off one baffling move after another. When the feet slowly transform into the lyrics, I dare you not to do your best Senator Clay Davis.
Google Earth is more than a tool for checking out your neighbours geraniums. In the hands of Dutch designer Thomas de Bruin it’s a tool for developing a full font set – including capitals, lower case, numbers and punctuation – from locations all over the Netherlands.
Our Junior Art Director Jade reckoned it took him ‘like, for ever’ to find the whole font set. Apparently though it took him ‘about a week’, which makes it even more of an achievement. Type-nerds tip your caps please.
