typefaces
A series of experiments with type, mainly in 3D and with perspective.
... To be seen after the (first) jump:
A poster by Julian Hansen. Big (enough) version on the other side of the first jump.
A tutorial on how to create a font in TypeTool.
From threadless.com.
The USA chest badge logo, constructed using the 26 degree chevron from Nike heritage, is meant to be wildly different than anything ever seen on a USA uniform before. Its upward movement references high-flying athleticism, and its composition is meant to evoke the badging of super hero costumes. The uniform is blocked in various 26 degree angles, which also inform the custom typeface, developed in three weights and a full character set for international uniforms.
Adding on top of that, what I like about it is that it seems to have a spatial quality about it, "hinting" at a (or several) possible representation(s) along (all) the 3 dimensions.
![infographiclarge v2 [png] @ julianhansen.com](http://julianhansen.com/files/infographiclarge_v2.png){kind=link}
Smoke typography Photoshop tutorial.
By/from Abduzeedo.
Feautured on FC Barcelona's shirts against Santos, during the 2013 edition of the Joan Gamper Trophy.
Anna was born with the Down Syndrome.
Benefiting from, and, inspired by, a multistable perceptual phenomenon, explored by, amongst others, M. C. Escher and Roger Penrose. The font's design "plays" with this effect to create/achieve a typeface that can't exist in the real/physical world.
Dubbed Frustro.
Designed by Márton Hegedűs.
Type meets the Periodic Table.
To list:
100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.
By Cam Wilde.
Love this! A proposal/concept to improve/simplify the alphabet as we know it. First presented in 1950, by Bradbury Thompson, it seems to remain, however, just an(other) idea.
From the source:
To remedy this, Alphabet 26, a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].
The departing premise for such a solution, was the idea that, being the alphabet one of the ultimate objects of (human) design, it clearly/seemingly violates the principle of constancy/consistency, by having two different ways of representing the same symbol/sound.
In other words. Having, actually, 2 alphabets, instead of one (and 45 symbols to represent 26 letters).
