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Category: Typography
Cool wedding invitation inspired by 100 ducks
The muted palette, the mix of wiry lettering and ornaments and of course the quirky ducks make this a fun and stylish wedding invitation.
Calligraphic inspiration and upside down Ns
Two calligraphy blogs to inspire your hand lettering and the strange phenomenon of the upside down N…
Friday find: Matchbooks
We’ve had matchboxes and cigarette packs on here before, so it’s only fitting to add matchbooks to the equation. As Johnny Cash points out, love is a burning flame!
Bloomberg Businessglitch
Glitches are described as “sudden, usually temporary malfunctions or irregularities of equipment” and have been embraced and turned into art, both musically and visually, for at least the last two decades or so. What is it that lends such an aesthetically pleasing quality to electronic error?
Friday find: FontShop Education
Joan and Erik Spiekermann’s foundry Fontshop has a very nice collection of typographic education resources available to download for free.
Ed Nacional
Ed manages to find that golden midway: minimalist yet richly detailed, subtle yet bold, monochrome and colourful.
The flipside of old New York Times photos
The New York Times recently launched a Tumblr to share old pictures from their newsroom archive. More exciting than the photos themselves, is the history recorded on the back of each picture.
Chicks & types
What could be more exciting than receiving a mystery package from overseas? Well, I was lucky enough to find one in my mailbox this week, all the way from Florence, Italy…
Hand drawn 2012 calendar
Singapore based agency Relay Room made this calendar. Just looking at it makes my wrist hurt!