Even in little ol’ Elmira, there is some great little spots for found typography. I’ve driven past this one enough times to remember to bring my camera. This would be a lovely piece to revive. Check out the whole set.
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Elmira Found Typography
Creative Grab Bag is out!
The Creative Grab Bag is a great project by Ethan Bodnar in which creatives were assigned projects that were not their specialty. The idea is to get someone out of their comfort zone and see what a creative person can do when picking up a new type of task. In my case, my assignment was to visually represent all or any of the senses. A common theme I noticed from the commentary of others is that they found it was quite difficult deciding on a solution on a project with so few restrictions.
There are a number of great designers and big names that contributed to the Creative Grab Bag, including Armin Vit and Byrony Gomez-Palacio of UnderConsideration, Debbie Millman, Paul Sahre, Michael Surtees, Carin Goldberg just to name a few. Not to mention, ID29’s Doug Bartow. Although, I think my favorite was Ryan Cox’s entry. The project drew entries from all around the world.
When I found out the book was available, I couldn’t wait to see what the other creatives had done. So, I rushed out to my local Barnes&Noble and picked up a copy. You can also get it on Amazon.
Handwriting=Typography [via Felt & Wire]
An absolutely wonderful, simple article on the beauty of handwriting from Mowhawk’s new blog, Felt & Wire
iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of on Vimeo
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Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car.
The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )
Download the font here: nl.toyota.be/iqfont
More pictures here: flickr.com/photos/40243214@N05/sets/72157621047564023/
[via @typeis4lovers]
The Quick Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog: On Video
Type Nerds rejoice. We finally have footage.
Coney Island Typography
Just yesterday, I had a great trip and got to visit Coney Island along the way. While I was there, I notice some wonderful lettering that I just had to share with you.
Paul Lloyd
It’s been a while, but in the time that I’ve been type nerding it up in the background, I’ve run across some gems by Paul Lloyd. His work seems to be a very academic approach to digitizing old fonts including several victorian and blackletter typefaces.