So, for all our Twitter followers, this is slightly older news by a week or so, but we wanted to share it on the blog as well.
The ‘Create Your Own Environment’ poster that we posted about a number of months back has been traveling around the world lately as we wanted to share it with as many people, blogs, organizations, etc., that we value and respect, as possible.
Some of the people we’ve sent it to have loved it so much that we’ve gotten some shout outs about it online in a few places. To say we were pretty ecstatic about that and the fact that so many people like the piece, would be an understatement.
Not only do we want to say thanks to all the blogs who talked about the print (again, Thanks Everybody!), we want to encourage everyone that reads our blog to make sure they go check out these sites.
We know you’ll find something inspiring and something that you like about each of them. So don’t wait any longer, go see what they had to say about our poster and posterquake.com and stick around for a bit to check a few of their sites out. Tell them the crew over at HQ says hey.
Out to Launch, a blog I subscribe to, posts a Random iPhone App of the week. This week: Cheese or Font? The game presents the player with a word, say “Tetilla,” and the player is to guess if the word is type of cheese or a type of font. It’s a cheese, by the way.
You can download the app for free at the APP Store, and, lucky for me and all of the other iPhone-less people in the world, you can also play the game online. None the less, it’s a great game for foodies and font-ies (?) alike.
Illustrators and typographists battle it out in LetterCult’s AlphaBattle (now showing entries for “C”). Anyone can and should submit, I plan to! “D” is for…..hmmm.
Yeah, I’ll admit it. I LOVE PROPER PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR. I’m not ashamed to say I’ve read Eats, Shoots and Leaves no fewer than three times, and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style currently resides on my desk. What of it? And now I no longer have to compromise grammatically when making stuff for the Internets, with this handy guide! Typography Quick Tips, from CSS Wizardry.
Ellipses Mac shortcut: Option + ;
Ellipses PC alt code: Alt + 0133
If you’re even the wee-est bit of a typophile, you can’t help but have your heart set a-flutter by a really wonderful ampersand. The above comes from 300&65 Ampersands, and they have plenty of lovelies for your perusal.
For amps out in the wild, see The Ampersand blog, and for a ridiculously awesome ampersand font pack, head over to Haäfe & Haph. You’re welcome, font geeks.
“Type has always been something static. In considering type we speak, for example, in terms of bold, thin, grotesque, classical, roman, italic: terms that all describe a defined variant of the font family. Thus we only ever see individual fixed points in what is actually an infinitely wide space of possibilities. With digitalisation, however, typeface has left its manifest image – cast in lead – behind, and with it all the associated limitations. Computer-based applications, the Internet and new, fluid advertising media allow us to go beyond the existing, static view of typography.” – from LAIKA website
Nate Williams just launched Letter PLAYGROUND, a wonderful community for people who like letters (and making them). You can join and upload your own designs!
