DESIGN – Half A Conversation

I Love Boxie... a mint graphic language t-shirt website has launched 'Half A Conversation' where you can have a custom tee made from your very own life experiences, worth checking out the tees and reading the stories behind them. Jennifer above has a few, all to do with Falling in Love with some hunk or something...Cute!. I've just thought of my own Tee Slogan..."Big Jammy Bakewell Tart, Bright Yellow Custard" The story goes... I went to the gym today, burnt loads of calories, when't for a nice roast beef and yorkshire pudding diner, had a little dip in energy and spotted this sexy little Bakewell Tart winking at me, so I poured custard all over her and munched away. Simples!

Typography + Alphabet Cities (by Craig Ward)

Apart from sleeping, surfing and jack daniels, typography is up there as one of my favorite things. The inter-character spacing of Craig Ward's prints are getting my typography juices flowing, as a friend of mine would say "Sex and Typography are my two favorite things" you know who you are... Why not go purchase yourself one of these sweet Large scale typographic maps of the cities Craig has visited at www.wordsarepictures.co.uk (£70, it's a steel).

Typography + Type Trumps

Anyone for a game of Type Trumps? "Right! Legibility 7 (Font: Avant Garde) that beats your legibility 3 (Font: Frankfurter)". Hand 'em over I win... Designed by Rick Banks a Graphic Designer from SEA Design London, Type Trumps is for all you Typographers out there who can remember the good old days of Top Trumps. For more info go to www.Face37.com

Exhibition + China Design Now

I was out last Thursday for a drink or two (nothing unusual there) and stumbled across the China Design Now Exhibition window display at Liberty's, London. Took a couple of pics on my new Phone/Camera thing (technology, bluh!) but they were too poor a quality to Post so I checked out the V&A's website for more details on the Exhibition, I would highly recommend you check it out to; Take me there...

Typography + I Love Typography

For all your Typography needs get yourself along to ILoveTypography.com. It has everything and more you might want to find out about typography; Identify a Font, Find Fonts/Font Wall among other useful devices. I'm liking the iLT Dashboard Widget for Mac users, it keeps you up to date with all the latest articles and posts on ILT's website come blog. Subscribe via RSS, join the Web 2.0 revolution.

Book + NeoGeo

NeoGeo + A New Edge to Abstraction
"NeoGeo documents the new flirtation with geometrical forms and solid colours in today’s design. The examples in the book make it clear that this current trend to abstract work is not a nostalgic phenomenon; rather, it borrows from illustration, collage, typography and computer art to create a whole new visual language". Bloody hell, arty-farty synopsis... That aside this book has some really nice work featured under it's cover. Check it out at Die Gestalten Verlag

Exhibition + Breaking The Rules

I spotted this poster on the London Underground last week: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937. A Free Exhibition well worth checking out if Typography is your bag (typography is one of my favorite things, just above high heeled shoes, Joke!).
Running from 9 November 2007 - 30 March 2008 at The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. For more information visit:
www.bl.uk/breakingtherules

WEBSITE + Design Police

Watch out!... here come the Rozzers.
Coming to a design studio near you the Design Police will be pounding the streets looking out for Design Criminals, you know who you are; Do you have shocking Kerning, Do you use Comic Sans, Do you not know the difference between Helvetica and Gill Sans? You'll soon be up before the Wigs in court, sentenced to 5 years Community Design Service for giving designers a bad name.

Check out The Design Police - 'Bringing Bad Design to Justice' and get your mitts on a Visual Enforcement Kit. Nice!

TYPOGRAPHY Hoefler Type Foundry

What a mouthful, Hoefler & Frere-Jones anyway well worth saying. I stumbled across the Hoefler Type Foundry on my daily Google search this morning, slightly hung-over but ready for some unexpected surprises and the HFJ Foundry did not disappoint.

Featured above, Gotham Rounded is one of many varied and unique fonts available to buy. Check out HFJ's 'Test Drive' feature where you can compare fonts interactively, Nice!

FILM Helvetica's 50th Birthday

Some Typographic pornography for all you Graphic Designers out there...

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica is currently screening at film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide, followed by the DVD release.

Get more info about the film...

FONTS Typisc.com

Some cool Fonts from TYPISC TYPE FOUNDRY™
(/TTF™) to check out and get those creative juices flowing...

Featured Font: WYLD

Check out more TTF™ fonts at:
http://typisc.com/fonts/wyld/

Submitted by: Meric Pine