This is the work of Oded Esser, who calls himself a “typographic experimentalist”. His works includes typographic animals and hebrew typefaces.
Read the story and see 30 pictures from the series at Design Observer
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Typographers guide to the galaxy
Monday, April 20th, 2009Music CD Labeling System
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Compact disc labeling concept. Each waveform accurately depicts a complete song in a 1-inch square.
Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If there’s anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it’s the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what’s going on. Some visualizations attempt to explain it all while others focus on affected business. Others concentrate on how we, as citizens are affected. Some show those who are responsible. After you examine these 27 visualizations and infographics, no doubt you’ll have a pretty good idea about what’s going on.
See them at Flowing Data.
If you ever thought of making a typeface
Saturday, March 14th, 2009You’d consider this good news indeed.
Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType package is to share the tools used by Adobe font developers for wrapping up PostScript fonts as OpenType/CFF font files, and adding OpenType layout features. These tools are used for in-house development of new Adobe OpenType fonts.
Via Swissmiss
Colorful cables by LaCie
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Just stumbled on these computer cables by LaCie. At the very least they’d make my cable mess a lot prettier. These kind of cables tend to be extremely boring.
The Problem With Sony, In a Picture
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Pretty much sums it up I guess.
Guess how many designs apple does? It’s two; one regular ear bud and one in-ear monitor (haven’t checked my facts, but I’m pretty sure of this).
Via Gizmodo
Challenging old design
Sunday, March 8th, 2009What if a radiator serves more purposes, and doesn’t look like it always have?
from the core77 blog:
It’s freezing in New York, so go warm up at MAD’s newest show, “Totally Rad.” Rad, as in radiators. Yes, it’s a show about radiators.
It’s curated by Karim Rashid, and the thirty designs are (believe it) surprisingly innovative — one stores towels (ahhhh… warm towels…) and one is a free-standing mini bamboo forest. The show’s about making something functional and unobtrusive into something kind of the opposite: art. Admittedly a touchy subject in design, but one that’s at least fun to look at.
The show (up through May 17) opens the museum’s Design and Innovation gallery, which will focus on short-term trend shows like this one, so stay tuned.
Honey, Manufacturer: Caleido, 2006
Pellicano, Manufacturer: Caleido, 1994
They made us do it or why design fails (so often)
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Found this in the International Herald Tribune, about why most designs are failures. Even if we normally tend to read about the success stories…
Sometimes I wonder whether I owe our readers an apology. Like most design critics, I tend to write about what happens when design projects work, when intelligent designers try to make our lives a little better - and succeed.
The compilation is interesting, it’s fairly apparent stuff. But nicely compiled in a list.
7. Up, up and away.
As corporate life expectancy shortens, ambitious executives have so little time to make their mark in particular roles that they meddle unnecessarily. Why else would packaging change so frequently, often at the expense of brand recognition? And what other reason could there be for companies to dump great corporate identities for mediocre ones? Exhibit A: UPS’s otherwise inexplicable decision to replace its beautiful Paul Rand-designed “parcel” symbol.
Go on and read it.
Via Pasta&Vinegar.
reversed
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Yo that kern is tight!
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Gotta love it. I want one! Click the image for the link.