Minimal science
March 10, 2013 § Leave a comment
When minimalism expresses the essence of meaning, design comes to honor the pioneering work of some of the world’s most famous scientists. From Darwin’s theory of evolution to Pythagoras’ theorem and Archimedes’ principle, Mumbai-based graphic designer Kapil Bhagat creates clever typographic posters of scientists’ names based on each genius’s breakthrough discovery.
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Words on their own
February 19, 2013 § Leave a comment
When words and letters acquires a life of their own. Ebon Heath liberates the letters from their frame, the printed page and creates laser-cut sculptures of the letters, giving them a three-dimensional existence with which viewers can actually interact. His typography sculptures, called Stereo.type, become a magical transformation of the written word into what he describes as a “new language of physical type.”
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Word animals
February 7, 2013 § Leave a comment
Typography once more. This time in the shape of an animal. Graphic designer Dan Fleming uses in his series ‘Word Animals’ the alphabet letters to create the form of the animal represented.
Pretty cool. Don’t you think?
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Sound advice
April 11, 2012 § 2 Comments
Lyrics to live by is a tumblr dedicated in finding good advice in song lyrics, ranging from classic rock to hip-hop. 
You can even submit lyrics and I did so! My choice?
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you makeThe End by The Beatles
Now I’ll just sit and wait. In the meanwhile…
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Matching types
March 28, 2012 § Leave a comment
By types we mean typefaces. And by matching we mean dating. This is the perfect game for typefaces to get to know each other and set the perfect date. Type Connection is a typographic dating game created by Aura Seltzer, whose aim is to pair typefaces and learn more about them.
When choosing a typeface, different options of ‘potential dates’ are presented.
You decide your strategy and send the two typefaces on a date.
Well, good luck!
via Quipsologies & Design Taxi
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Follow @itsasmallwebBeleza on the walls
February 25, 2012 § 2 Comments
Beauty is not always in the streets, it is on the walls as well. In particular, on the walls of Brasilândia Vila, a poor suburb on the outskirts of São Paulo, where Madrid Spain based artist collective Boa Mistura transformed them into a typographical scenery.
Words such as beleza, amor, doçura, firmeza and orgulho (beauty, love, sweetness, firmness and pride) were painted on the walls in perspective and revealed from just one point of view, as people walk past the one location where the lines merge into the form of words.
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Pictograms are forever
January 30, 2012 § Leave a comment
Not only diamonds are forever, pictograms as well. Designer Bryan Lenning has used only pictograms to depict all 24 James Bond films.
Can you guess the titles just by looking at the icons?
via Design Taxi
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Shape type: the letter shaping game
October 31, 2011 § 1 Comment
To shape the font, to form the misshaped character: this is the goal of Shape Type, an interactive typographic letter-shaping game, created by interactive designer, Mark MacKay.
Shape Type, made using HTML5, is a 10-stage game that asks from its users to form and fix the badly shaped, unfinished letters from specific typefaces, given the font names and fonts’ designers.
When the users have adjusted multiple bezier handles to get the shape of the character right., they can visually compare their effort with the original character and their score is a percentage based on the similarities.
via Design Taxi
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Follow @itsasmallwebWords have a life of their own
September 21, 2011 § 1 Comment
A is for Animation and B for Beautiful spelling-video. Playing with different techniques and material and using the Helvetica font, Italy-based design studio n9ve created Alphabet 2, a video where each letter is animated, representing the meaning of the word itself.
Check out the video:
via Colossal
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Strictly for philotypes
August 31, 2011 § 1 Comment
All these -isms that gave meaning to complex philosophical concepts and formed our common understanding: relativism, absolutism, hedonism, humanism, passivism, realism, authoritarianism, solipsism, reductionism, determinism, deism and so many others, but we never quite managed to remember them all.
Designer Genis Carreras helps us understand and visualise all these philosophical ideologies through his series of minimalistic posters, entitled Philographics, with just the use of simple geometric shapes.
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Strings of words
August 25, 2011 § Leave a comment
Art for transit enthusiasts? Yes, it exists, like these minimalistic maps made up of strings of words that spell the station names. TRNSPRTNATION is a series of typographic transit maps created by Fadeout Design, which include transit systems of Boston, London, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC and Chicago.
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OK Go do a chrome experiment
July 28, 2011 § Leave a comment
Long gone are the days that musician could go by a simple, story-telling video clip to go along with their music. That simply won’t do anymore. And if you can’t make an iPad app for your music you need at least to make it an interactive, online experience. OK Go, of course, are not new to making amazing music videos that go viral on the internet – heck, they invented the viral music video. But their newest endeavour for their song “All is not lost” is an amazing chrome experiment. Featuring moving & synchronized browser windows, amazing choreography by Pilobolus, body typography, kaleidoscopic effects and, *winks* a cameo by it’s a small web, you better not miss it. View it here.
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A city, a symbol
June 21, 2011 § 2 Comments
Each city has a landmark and designer Albim Holmqvist revealed each city’s identity by incorporating in his typographic logotypes their most characteristic symbol.
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Typo [>05TeRs
May 27, 2011 § 1 Comment
Theme: movies. Medium: letterforms. Begin.
Designer Patrik Svensson used letterforms, numbers, typographic characters and symbols to create minimalistic movie posters, managing to convey each film’s essence.
365 six word stories
May 17, 2011 § 1 Comment
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
According to urban myth that is the reply Ernest Hemingway gave when he was challenged to write a story in just six words.
In 2010 two creatives, Van Horgen, writer, and Anne Ulku, designer, felt up to the challenged. They launched six word story everyday blog and did exactly that: they posted one six word story for every single day of the year.
Once 2010 came to an end, they opened up the project to everybody on sixwordstoryeveryday.com.
Admittedly, these are great story openers rather than stories in themselves, but very interesting, still.
via quipsologies
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Clever words
April 29, 2011 § 4 Comments
What happens when the Saussurian signifier and signified meet up in the form of a word? Beautiful typography.
Typeplay is a tumblr blog, which plays with words and their meanings creating typographically meaningful words and whose goal is to reach a million words.
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You’re a comic sans criminal
April 28, 2011 § 2 Comments
This is an intervention for comics sans addicts. We’ve had enough.
link: comic sans criminal
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Green typography
April 20, 2011 § 1 Comment
Anna Garfoth experiments with eco-graffiti and green typography. And I mean actually green: messages written with moss on walls.
She also uses leafs, garbage and tape on fences’ grids to spell her messages.
And my personal favorite, the edible poster made out of cookies.
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10 + 1 ways to visualize lyrics
April 18, 2011 § 5 Comments
Really good songs have usually really good lyrics. And good lyrics stay with you. When we were at school we doodled them on our books and carved them into the desks. What do the digital natives do? Here are the best ideas (and, incidentally, really good songs for the most part) we found around the web:
1. Pick a photo, apply a vintage effect and write the lyrics in helvetica
Paris by the Friendly Fires (the Aeroplane version featuring Au Revoir Simone kicks major ass, too)
(visual first seen at letlooselove, our title inspired by this)
2. Make a flowchart*
Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash
(visual first seen at Urlesque)
*but be careful not to be trapped on an infinite loop
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You type, they design
April 12, 2011 § 3 Comments
Everybody is obsessed with typography, lately. And it’s OK, the only problem being that not everyone has a design degree or money to spend on a designer. Now, there are designers who will turn your phrase into a typographical masterpiece for free.
Just head to the phraseology project, submit a word or phrase (less than 20 characters) and check back in a few days to find it fully designed in a typographical form.
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