Very few widgets occupy my dashboard these days. Especially ones I can find very useful for projects that require a drop, a plop or a pinch of Lorem Ipsum. I installed Lormify, and out of the box, a very quick and easy-to-use tool that will get you generating Lorem Ipsum like a rockstar within seconds.
I’ve always marveled Barry McGee wonderful patterns and inspiring network of geometrical artwork showcasing his hand painted typography style. New Work is currently on display in London Modern Art Gallery.
This vintage poster set gives our current modern day internet technology networks a humorous spin into our past. Like stepping into the 1950s of the DeLorean time machine and seeing how things once were. However, these posters do not stray too far from the truth, in how these online giants portray themselves to their online communities.
Why does sense of typography differ within games, and movies compared to a book or a magazine. You have a plethora of designers discussing the type, font face, kerning, etc… But you never hear this from someone who designs motion graphics and games. Maybe I don’t know enough game or title screen designers to really know this. Perhaps in the hidden corners of the room, lurks mysterious game designers discussing form and usage of particular typefaces. Like myself, but I’m no typographic nerd. I do however appreciate and understand the importance fonts have in design. However I can also appreciate the super stylized graphic applied to these typefaces. The sample principles can only apply, except with strong emphasis on graphic styling and motion. However, when you look at it, book and magazine designers mostly look at type, and have to do so on a line by line basis, focusing on spacing between the letters. They hold down the fort in typography.
It’s funny, when designers try to represent the future with a digital looking typeface. We go and represent it with some cold, sterile, 8-bit looking font or better yet the LCD typeface. How many more lame braille looking fonts will we have to endure, telling us that, that is how the future of type will look like. Or worse, when we see it, we accept that this is our future. Maybe we will lose an entire understanding of type so therefore we just drop type all together and go blind. [...]