A few weeks back I posted a triptych Tuesday featuring Patricks work – in case you didn’t delve through his site then, I’ve saved you the trouble and bring it to you.
I really like Patrick’s style. it’s got a simple naive semi-tribal vibe going on, along with some subtle ironies and witticisms in each piece. [...]
posted: March 23rd, 2010 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: illustration, Patrick Hruby, typography
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No font is held in such high regard for a generation of designers as Helvetica. Similarly, apart from comic sans, few fonts are as disliked as Arial.
I’ve always wondered if it was simply a mac vs windows thing, or that it was just a safe name to drop when in a conversation with a designer?
Some [...]
posted: January 25th, 2010 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: arial, comparison, font, Helvetica, mac, typography, windows
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I first came across Jack Crossing’s work through a friend and colleague who used some of Jack’s work for his club night. I really liked the work he’d done and the simple confident lines in his graphic design and typographic work.
He also had a fondness for triangles and space themes which I share. Not being [...]
posted: January 8th, 2010 |
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| tags: font, interview, jack crossing, pen and paper, typography
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Check out this triptic of 6-sheets by London designer Radim Malinic. They’re clearly reognisable as a whole yet work individually to express the different angles and shopping opportunities of Melbourne’s QV complex. Great to see them arranged together.
Malinic uses different typefaces, colour palettes and subtle monochrome shape arrangements to keep each piece fresh. True to [...]
posted: November 8th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: brand nu, design, graphic design, melbourne, photoshop, QV, Radim Malinic, typography, vector
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untitled by Shaun Sundholm
This project is the firstborn child conceived from a life-long love affair with photography and typography. The photo series was shot at an abandoned (and rumored to be haunted) ranch in central Oregon and the type was inspired by my early days as a screen-printer. These pieces complete the sentences that the pictures [...]
posted: June 14th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: 20x200, elliott smith, photography, print, shaun sundholm, typography
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kinda odd when your collegues say ‘hey man, nice tweet. great link about steven meisel’ causing you me to draw a blank and feel like a tit and mumble ’stephen whaaa’?, then i work out that lady worthington must have just blogged and pushed it to my twitter.
this lovely piece of typography showmanship by Danny [...]
posted: April 22nd, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: blog, syncronisation, twitter, typography
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a wise man once said, “A book that is shut is but a block”. walk into a library and you get more of a seance of structure and construction than the kabillions of words contained within. perhaps Armandine Alessandra has come up the answer – Book as type
anmandine alessandra via Fubiz
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posted: December 14th, 2008 |
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| tags: Armandine Alessandra, books, type, typography
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