I’ve recently put up a new shower curtain, which isn’t usually something to blog about but I’m really pleased with it as it appeases my love of typography and maps.
It maps London with only place names marking areas but unfortunately it’s disappeared from the Rocket St George website.
It reminds me of a 1.5m x 1m poster by www.nbstudio.co.uk titled “London’s Kerning” which I blogged about back in 2007. It still is available to buy, but currently sold out. If either become available let me know and I’ll post an update.
Sometimes when it looks as if someone hasn’t tried, it’s because they haven’t tried.
“Pick a bad photo, apply a vintage effect and write something in helvetica”
See what the Hero of Switzerland means here: heroofswitzerland.blogspot.com/2011/02/graphics-101.html
I am often reliant on the Lorem ipsum genertor site when creating some design concepts, and thanks to Swiss Miss and Chesley I’ve found a supercharged version – the Dummy text generator. This gives you all the features of the Lorem ipsum generator but adds some extra touches such as adjuusting the size of the preview window, choosing different text instead of the usual Lorem ipsum and being able to specify CSS styling. Give it a go!
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
