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The blog of a graphic designer in Portland Oregon, trying to find his main chance. Filled with observations of the obvious and the not-so-much, an obsession on graphic design, a love of writing and Photoshop, Illustration, and the desire to become ma
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[type] Mr Subliminal Tells A Joke In Type
2259.Back in the mid '90s, when Saturday Night Live was still cool and funny [1], repertory cast member Kevin Nealon got a great deal of mileage out a character who was originally named Phil Maloney, an ad exec, but who became known as "Mr. Sublimina...
[type] letterPLAYGROUND: Type Play For The Peoples
2247.What is letterPLAYGROUND?It's just what it says it is. No fancy web-based application, just a site where you and I and everyone we know can riff on letterforms, make them art, upload them, share them, and have fun.It's type, it's art, it's playt...
[type] Now Mrs. Eaves No Longer Nods Lonely
2245.In 1996, the legendary digital typographer Zuzana Licko created Mrs. Eaves, a font which was an amazing OpenType revival of Baskerville. Therein lies a tale.When one looks into the life stories of the great typographers, one finds, as with lives...
[type] Laika – A Font That Dynamically Responds To You
2244.I've always felt that type is not as static as people think it is. Even printed, unchanging type has the power to move, influence and change moods (imagine a Last Will and Testament in Times Roman. Now, Imagine the same document in Comic Sans. H...
[type] Pen And Ink Journal - A Handwritten Blog!
2239.Naturally, I'm hoping the headline got your attention. But it's not a joke – the blog Pen & Ink Journal, an actual blog at http://www.penandink-journal.com/ is an actual, surfable blog, and the entries are handwritten – in a beautiful, m...
[type] Free Typography Rules Poster PDF - With Solid Advice
2236.Since, according the The Book Of Tom Peterson (and Gloria Too!), free is a very good price, here's a nugget I turned up thanks to David Airey at twitter.com/DavidAirey:The poster, in PDF form at Minneapolis graphic designer Evan Stremke's site (...
[type] Kerning … It\'s Just Rhythm (Without The Blues)
2233.Kerning: the one typographical power word. You can have anything you want going down with your type, but watch that kerning …Kerning addresses a basic problem with our alphabet: The shapes of certain character pairs create spacing problems, ma...
[logo] What If Logos Used Comic Sans?
2231.Here, we keep beating up on Comic Sans (which, as history will show, Vincent Connare designed for Microsoft BOB), which is a little unfair, because Comic Sans didn't really spread itself everywhere, but someone asked themselves the eventually un...
[design] Hardcore Prepress Artists Get Tats With Crop Marks
2224.(Yes, I've moved off count again, meaning that there are at least three duplicates down the stream there. Ah, well).How do you know you're hardcore prepress?How do you tell the world that you'll quit electronic layout when they pry your Mac from...
[type] The Oregonian, Promoting Perfect Penmanship
2211.I am an advocate for great penmanship.Penmanship, as a subject, has been demoted to, at best, highly unnecessary. Some blame the internet, some blame laziness in schools; just like any trend, it has many fathers and mothers. I prefer, as the aut...
[type] Georgia And Arial Are Finally Getting That Print Polish
2210.Verdana and Georgia are two fonts everyone has seen. They're all over the web, literally; MSFT dubbed them part of the set of core fonts for the web, and every computer with a commercially-produced OS likely haz them. They tend to occasionally â...
[type] You Want The Wikipedia of Fonts?
2201.Then, you'll find it at Typedia, here: http://typedia.com.I just wonder what took someone so long …Technorati Tags: Typedia, Type, type references...
[pdx] New Street Blades In SE and SW, and We Suggest A Transitional Form
2183.More new street blades out and about; this time we find the new format in SW Portland, in the Johns Landing area.The area called Johns Landing is found along the Willamette River on the left bank, south of the new condo desert of SoWa. It center...
[type] Exploring TypeMyType – Intriguing DIY Font Resources
2180.Via Twitterer Bram Pitoyo, I've stumbled on a site that looks like a typographers site for typographers, but if you're interested in font design, it's got a little something for everyone.It's called TypeMyType.Truth be told, I'm still in the mid...
[type] Semi-Covered-Over Type on Building at SW 17th And West Burnside
2155.Seen on a walk today:SW 17th and West Burnside. I think Dimitri's Greek nighclub is or was there.Technorati Tags: Typography, type design, street type, West Burnside Street...
How Do You Make A Comic Sans Poster Even Worse?
2150.By adding Papyrus, a/k/a, "The thinking man's Comic Sans".You can view it at this link at Typophile. I was thinking of hotlinking the photo, but I wanted to give y'alls fair warning. I'm not into pointless cruelty.Well, somtimes I am. Just not h...
Two Free Fonts: Days And Pico (The One Twitter Uses In Its Logotype)
2081.Twitter is really paying off in terms of win. Found two new highly fun fonts, one of which answered a question that I didn't know I had.First is the font called "Days". It's a nifty design that rather reminds me of what a production designer doi...
Meet Les Kerning
2054.Y'all will remember that, back here, I introduced you the singular Max Kerning, the god of clean, well-spaced, orderly type.His döppelgänger has emerged. Yin to the yang, the self-proclaimed Jackson Pollock of type (I shudder, I do), Les Kerni...
