Friday, February 27, 2009

Action Types



Marcus Schaefer created a 3-d type, that contains a bold, light and slab serif version. You can rotate the forms to view them from any direction here.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Typesetting example

Nice example of how letterspacing, wordspacing, and leading can contribute to a successful design, in this case in the headline "crimes of passion".

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Google Alphabet Examples



Here are examples from the Google Type project. The New Haven solution utilized 2 alphabets so that the letterforms would interlock. The module was flipped, and each letter was created in each orientation.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Helvetica Wallpaper by J. Abbott Miller




Wallpaper samples designed by J. Abbot Miller of Pentagram for Knoll. The top left is "Merge", which is composed entirely of Helvetica letterforms.