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segunda-feira, 17 de outubro de 2011

Fotolia type ad

These ads contain no images, only typography and in no more than three colours — a bold move for a company that makes its money selling images.

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Some typographers may critique the ads due to their hard-to-read nature, however, what might not be apparent is that this was, in fact, very intentional. What is unique about typography-heavy advertising is that it requires more from the viewer than passive observation; it requires an active participation — reading. The idea was to create a “block of type out of blocky type,” and in all caps, so that it required cognitive investment on the part of the reader, and made it memorable. Meadus figured that the writing was interesting enough that the readers wouldn’t mind being challenged to get through it, and “given the abrasive, pompous tone of voice, it was fitting that they be hard to read.”

http://www.typeforyou.org/2011/07/01/fotolia-bold-move-with-only-type-ad/

Frankenfont

An edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein laid out using characters and glyphs from PDF documents obtained through internet searches. The incomplete fonts found in the PDFs were reassembled into the text of Frankenstein based on their frequency of use. The most common characters are employed at the beginning of the book, and the text devolves into less common, more grotesque shapes and forms toward the end.

At http://fathom.info/frankenfont/

Cheese or font?

http://cheeseorfont.com/

sábado, 15 de outubro de 2011

SITES COM INTERESSE

Boa noite de novo,

parece que ao bocado nao foi de vez, passo aqui de novo para deixar mais alguns sites relacionados com tipografia:

typographica.org (este tem um 'capitulo' que me chamou a atenção e que me suscitou particular interesse, se fizerem scroll down no site vai aparecer uma hiperligaçao chamada Making Geometric Type Work, da algumas noções de Kerning e Tracking, bem como mais alguma informação relativa a relações entre caracteres e palavras). Vale a pena.

fontfeed.com (este também tem informação relacionada com kernign. Tem artigos uteis sobre o assunto).

typeforyou.blogspot.com (Tem artigos uteis sobre o assunto).

fontsinuse.com (utilização na pratica de determinados tipos).

Por ultimo:

http://www.fontshop.com/blog/newsletters/december10b/index.html (Top 2010 fonts. E sempre útil).

Adios muchachos

I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY

Boa noite pessoal,

passo por aqui só para deixar um site que, embora muitos de vocês possam já conhecer, ou não, continua a ter material com muito interesse a nível tipográfico.

Aqui fica:

ilovetypography.com

Boa noite a todos

Marian Bantjes Explores Joy Through Typography

Marian Bantjes is one of those creators that make pigeonholing impossible. Trained as a graphic designer, with a decade-long career as a typesetter under her belt and a penchant for the intricate beauty of letterform illustrations, she calls herself a ‘graphic artist’ and is an avid advocate for self-education and self-reinvention.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/19/marian-bantjes-i-wonder/

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/marian_bantjes_intricate_beauty_by_design.html

quinta-feira, 13 de outubro de 2011

KERN

KERN is a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures! Practice and prove your typographical acumen with a score that gives new meaning to point-size!

Para quem tiver iPhone at http://www.FORMationAlliance.com/index.php?id=39