Farhad Moshiri | Life is Beautiful

Posted: May 9th, 2012 | Author: Steph | Filed under: Art, Typography | Tags: , | No Comments.

Without any pun intended, Farhad Moshiri’s Life is Beautiful message gets straight to the point; a typographic installation created with kitchen knives.

The Connected Poster

Posted: October 18th, 2011 | Author: Ansel | Filed under: Design, Typography | Tags: , , | No Comments.

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.

Ok Go & Pilobolus | All Is Not Lost

Posted: August 31st, 2011 | Author: Samuel | Filed under: Film, Music Video, Typography | Tags: , , | No Comments.

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.

Thomas de Bruin | Google Earth Alphabet

Posted: August 10th, 2010 | Author: Ansel | Filed under: Design, Environment, Typography | Tags: , | No Comments.

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.