I saw this vintage children’s book at a thrift store called, I Want to be a Coal Miner. I thought that was a strange aspiration for a child and I had to thumb through it. It turns out that although the story is boring and borderline propagandistic, the illustration style was amazing. [...]
I find that when I choose color schemes for my designs I end up falling back to my favorite colors over and over again, so when I need variety I’ve been using Adobe’s Kuler to find color inspiration. I love the way it works with CS3 so easily, and it seems to be the [...]
I’ve decided to establish a running feature on my blog that I will call “Typography Photography”. In this case, “Typography Photography” is defined as being a photo of typographic work in context. Of course, the type work and its environment must be interesting, but the actual photography must also be well done. [...]
Paulete Matos is working on a great photo set project called “Rhythms”. The photos all consist of a single person with an umbrella walking on a gray textured road. It’s a simple idea, but well executed.
Oomingmak Design Company makes some fantastic gig poster designs. I love the vintage color palette and the type work is spot on.
I’ve come a cross a lot more nice photography of typography since the last time, here’s five more of my favorites. The photos link to their respective Flickr pages.
Previously: 5 nice photos of found typography vol.1
{above photo by David John Earls, of typographer.org}
lauren {elycerose} on Flickr just pointed out that aluminum foil boxes have push in tabs for holding the roll in place. This is the most amazing thing I have learned all week and I can’t believe I never noticed it before. My life is now slightly easier.
Susan Rudat has some lovely line work in her Moleskine ink drawings. I especially enjoyed the “Flora” set. She also has a blog that is worth checking out. I love the blurring of the line between sketches and finished art pieces that is happening these days, and a lot of [...]
I was literally watching Juno (again) yesterday and found myself wondering how they created the animation sequence during the opening credits. I had guessed that they just lowered the frame count of an actual video and used some effect to give the frames a hand drawn look, but it looked too nice to be [...]
If you can think of it, there is probably a Flickr group about it. I loved looking at this Flickr set of people jumping off swings. Jumping off of a swing is one of the most exhilarating feelings in the world. It was my favorite thing to do in a park. [...]
