This is a new piece based on Shepard Fairey’s Obey Giant series. I incorporated the four colors found in a lot of his work, used Futura for the text and added some light textures to the background,
Month: August 2015
Typekit Practice – sharpen your typographic skill set with Adobe Typekit
Typekit Practice is a website from Adobe to help users hone their typography skill set. It has featured lessons to help users understand different applications for typography. It features a library of recommended books as well as featured lessons about different topics.
The site is designed to be helpful for everyone from students to experts and it will help you up your typography game. If you are a typographer or a designer you can always use more Typekit Practice.
“Typographers are masons of the printed world.” – Alan Fletcher
“Typographers are masons of the printed world.” – Alan Fletcher
Why Man Creates – by Saul Bass
This short Saul Bass film from 1968 explores human creativity and Saul’s own creative process
Typeset.js – an HTML pre-processor for web typography
Remember when people read books? This Javascript application by David Merfield makes your boring web typography look like a finely laid out manuscript.
The differences don’t jump out right away, but dosen’t that hanging punctuation look nice? What about those quotations?
The code is available now on GitHub.
Source: Typeset.js – an HTML pre-processor for web typography
“I want to make beautiful things even if nobody cares”. – Saul Bass
“I want to make beautiful things even if nobody cares.” – Saul Bass
The MEME font (IMPACT)
Have you ever wondered why all the meme’s look so similar? It’s their Typography, they are all using the same font. This video from Vox shows Impact’s rise to meme-dom.