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14 April 2008

Presenting a rather useless font

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Source: Craftzine

28 January 2008

Human skin alphabet

With the help of clothespins, Amsterdam artist Thijs Verbeek has created a human skin alphabet.

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This would make a great horror movie poster design.


Source: Boing Boing

23 January 2008

Nature's Typeface

Photographer Kjell Sandved spent 24 years taking these photos of butterfly and moth wings to create a complete alphabet as well as the numbers 0 through 9. In case you were wondering, the G and the R were the most difficult for the photographer to find.

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If you're a nature lover, you'll enjoy the story behind the butterfly typeface.

15 January 2008

Typography: another reason to hire a professional to create your advertising

The importance of choosing an appropriate typeface for an advertising/marketing communication cannot be overestimated. The right typeface adds to the visual appeal of an ad as well as reinforces the main message.

Likewise, choosing the wrong typeface is the kiss of death -- and a tell-tale sign that an ad was created by do-it-yourselfers.

If you think I'm overestimating the power of typography, look at this campaign for Fontasy, a website featuring free typeface downloads, created by Butter, Berlin.

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Source: Ads of the World

21 November 2007

Hairy Typography -- Futura 001: Hirsute

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Source: Behance 

14 November 2007

Human Typography

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Source: Swiss Miss

08 November 2007

Montreal bar advertises itself as a meatmarket

What is it with all the meat-y advertising lately?

Click images to enlarge.

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Advertising agency: Bleublancrouge, Montreal

Raw hamburger typeface: Artist Robert Bolesta

Source: Ads of the World

05 October 2007

Free Download: Skull Font

Skull94 Just go to Skull-a-Day. The blog is considerate enough to offer PC and Mac versions.

13 September 2007

Cool Typeface: Mike Perry's Alphabet Town

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Source: Mike Perry

28 August 2007

I love ads that make the reader feel as though he/she is in on a joke.

If you don't get this one, click here.

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This ad was created by David, Jakarta.

Source:Ads of the World

 

30 July 2007

Urban Typeface

This typeface was created using photos looking upward at buildings

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To see another great typeface, click here.

Source: Spluch

12 June 2007

Free Font

VTKS No Name is a neat font designed by Douglas Vitkauskas. And it's free. Download it at dafont.com.

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Click here for more information on scoring free fonts.

Illustration © Douglas Vitkauskas

07 April 2007

9,800 Free Fonts

9,800 (!) fonts, all yours for the downloading at Creamundo.

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Source: Craftzine

04 April 2007

Two New Typefaces

Artist Robert Bolesta has created Value Pack, a typeface made of raw hamburger...

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And artist Oliver Munday has created Fire in the Hole, an alphabet created from plastic soldiers...

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You've got to wonder what's going on with the letter 'H.'