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I recently received a copy of Size Fomat Stock produced by Studio8 and Fenner Paper. It lists information such as paper sizes, folds, bindings and material as a reference tool for both students and designers.
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For who doesn’t know about this, John, from ILT, started a ffffound-like site for all things typographical. Check it out.
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Pure, beautiful and visible over a long distance: These weatherproof and durable house numbers show your visitors their way. The precisely worked numbers made out of special concrete are modelled on the classic typeface Helvetica. Pure, to the point and most of all legibly.
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Lightwriting is a new technique by Visionlabz that uses 40 LEDs controlled with Arduino and Processing to write words and patterns.
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NetNewsWire Styles by Antonio Carusone. LegiStyles™ are a series of custom styles for the award-winning RSS reader NetNewsWire. Much attention has been paid to the design and typography of the styles to improve legibility and readability, and to enhance the overall reading experience.
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Dropular —Media Bookmarking. The media bookmarking service, Dropular. The idea behind the site is based upon other services we love deeply; Delicious, Ffffound and Digg. We have combined, what we think are the best functions and ideas from these sites which resulted in Dropular.
We will have an open beta registration 4th February (tomorrow, Wednesday) for 24 hours starting 8AM GMT, so make sure to register during these hours. :)
Dropular
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Thinking for a Living. Dedicated to the concept of open source design education.
Thinking for a Living. Dedicated to the concept of open source design education.
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The Grid System. The ultimate resource in grid systems.
The Grid System. The ultimate resource in grid systems.
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Need a new calendar? I’m sure you do.
Check out the Pentagram 2009 Typographic Calendar now offered by kenknight, it’s available for only $24 !
The calendar is available in two sizes, a supersize 33-by-23 inch version suitable for wall hanging and a smaller 18-by-12 inch version appropriate for desk use.
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This letterpress poster was handcrafted character by character over the course of roughly 100 hours. Characters from the Bickham Script Pro, Engravers MT, and Epic typeface families form the edifice featured in the artwork, the Salt Lake Temple. Additional detail photos available at Cameron’s Veer Portfolio and here.
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Axel Peemoeller conducts an interesting experiment, a marker rigged to his mouse hand, tracing his movement in duration of designing the ‘G’ face.
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Typography for ISSEY MIYAKE INC. Art direction, Design, Typographic by Shun Kawakami (artless).
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Typographer, Oded Ezers 3-D re-creation of Milton Glasers I Love NY is the first piece in a homage series.
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Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it’s made for looking at feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on-screen buttons. Its not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and personalise to your hearts content! All you need is a browser that supports userscripts (see below) and, of course, Helvetica.
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Typo/graphic posters – A directory of typographic and graphic posters. Always nice to see people who use Indxr. ;)
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OFFF. International festival for the post-digital creation culture.
OFFF. International festival for the post-digital creation culture.