Tag: TYPOGRAPHY

As a part of its 'Standard Deviations; Prototypes, Archetypes, and Families in Contemporary Design' exhibit, the Museum of Modern Art has acquired something rather intangible: a collection of 23 digital fonts. From the pixelated Oakland font of the 1980s to the familiarly clean Gotham, each of these typefaces suggests that the mere appearance of a letter, notwithstanding the words it might make, ...

Over at Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian wonders aloud, "Did desktop publishing ruin design terminology?" We often use the term 'font' when we mean 'typeface,' a term that has almost completely fallen out of use outside of graphic design circles. Vartanian's helpful look back at FontFeed, though, clears up their distinction. "Font is what you use, and typeface is what you see," says Norbert ...

Design consultants at BERG teamed with Denstsu London to create a video of illuminated 3-D typography, with only a camera and an iPad. Each 3-D word was cross-sectioned "like a CAT scan," and each section then appeared on the iPad as it was pulled through space. Piecing together long-exposure photographs of the process resulted in an otherworldly stop-motion short (after the jump) that is as ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. ReadWriteWeb investigates how the nearly universally acclaimed Old Spice Guy videos were made, and it turns out the whole production was a team effort from marketing ...

Let's say you've been betrayed. Someone you've dedicated the last several years of your life to just up and walks away from you. And worse still, makes sure to create a self-serving, over-dramatic spectacle as he does so. When you decide it's time to vent your frustrations, and address not only the person who stabbed you in the back but the people who were collateral damage in breakup, what font ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Pinhole photography enthusiasts will get a big kick out of this widdle biddy camera, styled like a fish-eye Lomo. Francesco Capponi's cricket-sized gizmo doesn't ...

Ever fancied yourself a graphic designer but found that you lack the skills to compose an arresting image? As usual nowadays, the iPhone has come to your rescue. A new app called addLib will translate your iPhone photos into works of modernist Swiss style. If you want your blurry, poorly shot pics to look like the products of design luminaries like Jan Tschichold and Josef Müller-Brockmann, ...

We've seen a number of Lady Gaga mashups -- and while many have tickled us, we have now come to the geekiest of them all. Four typography-loving hipsters put together this hilarious cover of Lady Gaga's "Pokerface," paying homage to their favorite Neo-grotesque font: Neutraface. Apparently Neutraface, named after eminent Modernist architect Richard Neutra, is actually pronounced "noy-tra," as ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Years before groundbreaking anime 'Akira' hit the big screen, Suzuki was working on a futuristic motorbike (pictured above). [From: Kanye West] xkcd, our favorite ...

Dutch designer Jelte van Abbema recently won the €10,000 (about $14,000) Rado Prize at the Dutch Design Awards for, among other work, his typography project Symbiosis. Van Abbema used living bacteria to form lettering by stamping the critters onto paper with letterpress type, and then set them in a home-made incubator. Their metastasis and ultimate demise created typographic forms that ...