Annie Mole, the brains behind the Going Underground Blog has been collecting examples of Guerilla signs on the tube from her readers. Highlights include “For a more efficient service, please alight at the next stop where a team of heaveily drugged sloths will drag you to your destination” and “Peak hours may necessitate that you let other people sit on your lap”
One of the things I like best about these signs is the level of detail to make them look as authentic as possible. If you spot any yourself make sure you send them through to Annie.
I like fonts, I’m not quite a typography nut, but I do appreciate the brilliant influence that typography can have on design. So this post is all about typography, looking at three quite different angles.
1 – Toast
As well as typography, I love toast, hot taost with melted butter, mmmmm, the breakfast of choice (as you may have noticed). So lets mix typography and toast say the people at handmadefont.com
Seen on: bblinks.blogspot.com, originally at www.handmadefont.com
2 – Cheese
Unlike toast, I hate cheese. And it hates me. I have a ‘cheese face’ to prove it. But, there is a connection with fonts and cheese, their names are often indistinguishable. @mogrify noticed this and decided to test the world on their cheese and font knowledge and built Cheese or Font.
Seen on: www.swiss-miss.com and originally at: cheeseorfont.mogrify.org
3 – Wallpaper
I wish I had more computer screens so I could show more desktop wallpaper. If I had 40 screens I could have a different typography wallpaper on each one courtesy of www.1stwebdesigner.com. It’s an excellent collection, and make me want to print them all out as postcards and stick them around my desk.
Found by: dainix on designbump.com, originally at: www.1stwebdesigner.com
This made me laugh. Found by Swiss Miss, Neatorama and Chris Glass.
August 7, 2009
My husband and I were exploring Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada, when we stopped for a timed picture of the two of us. We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take the picture when this curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intrigued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot! A once in a lifetime moment! We were laughing about this little guy for days!
Originaly from National Geographic’s “Your Shot” section (August Week 1).
The people at Mashable have been busy. Busy seeing what google is really used for.
They ask the important questions of ”When will…” “Why is my g…” “Can I have a…” ”Is it impossible to l…”, Why do…” “Can you…” “Where do…” “How does…” “Can Jes…” “Can go…” and let google answer them.
I like to listen to Adam and Joe, but I listen to the podcast, not the live show. I have never joined in on their text the nation feature but many have, and they have a special jingle for it which is impressively composed and sung by the two of them:
Original jingle
In last weeks podcast they feature a specialy composed version sung by an amateur choir from Baldock in Hertfordshire which is a town I know fairly well (or at least has a pub I know very well as you can see here, here, here and here). Unfortunately for the Choir Adam and Joe were not very impressed, you can listen to the choirs efforts and the following critique here:
The Baldock Choir
Those poor 11-50 something year olds.
Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. You have 10 minutes to type as many of the station names as you can remember and watch as your answers get added to the map. I managed 52 out of the 63 stations which I was fairly happy with, but still had to kick myself when I saw the ones I’d missed. It instantly highlights the parts of London you never visit, for me there was a huge empty space in south West London which I had no idea about. Have a go yourself at www.sporcle.com/games/londontubecentral.php and see if you do better than 52…
It reminded me of a simliar game, with the same concept but on a much larger scale. At travelpod they have a flash game where you must place a flag on the map of the world to mark the location of cities and famous places with points are awarded for speed and accuracy. There are 12 levels of difficulty with cities becoming more and more obscure as you progress. Give it your best flag at www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq. Unfortunately I didn’t make the 30,000 threshold to get past level 6, I’m sure you can do better!
The text competition on Richard Bacon’s radio show last night – the winner was “Lidle Miss Sumshine”
This clock was pointed out to me in a North Yorkshire pub called the Nags Head. It took me a second to work out what was unusual. The pub didn’t have a clock theme, the walls and ledges were filled with a mix of unusual and usual trinkets.
They did serve a very good game pie too. Worth a visit if you’re in the area.
This was the reply to a heckler at Dylan Moran’s stand-up show last night. The performance was a collection of seemingly drunken ramblings about the state of the world and humanity. Each point was brilliantly made with surreal and insightful examples of the worlds problems, and every one of them had you laughing at the ridiculous and truthfulness of the charged statements.
The man certainly has a different perception of the world to most, but however bizarre and nonsensical it may be, you want to hear more.
This morning something strange happened.
On a crowded Northern Line train a seat was left empty. the three men standing over it were all too polite to even acknowledge the seat which was left vacant at Angel and it was still empty when I left at Old Street.
How peculiar.
