Pattern Repetition

Woven at 2008-06-12T8:57, coloured as .

Yesterday, some friends invited me to see Bodo Wartke. If you haven’t seen him, check him out: he’s really extremely funny, very witty and totally charming. Be warned, though: You should have a pretty firm grip on the German language, otherwise you will miss 80% of his jokes …

For me most interesting to see was [...]

Kerning

Woven at 2008-04-14T19:38, coloured as .

Safari [...] ignores the font’s metrics and kerns letter pairs like David Carson on a bad day.

Yeah, that’s totally an insider for graphic designers.

links for 2008-04-02

Woven at 2008-04-02T9:35, coloured as .

Graphic Design and typography - Swiss Legacy » Helvetica Serif? Breaking news: FontFont to release Helvetica Serif, based on old sketches by Miedinger! (tags: typography helvetica lang:en) [...]

Star Wars Titles – A New Look

Woven at 2008-03-05T11:32, coloured as .

Could have happened if Saul Bass had his hands in it. [found via core77]

TypoCity

Woven at 2007-11-14T11:33, coloured as Uncategorized.

[found via information aesthetics]

Finding Colours

Woven at 2007-09-04T10:57, coloured as .

Wacky idea last evening:

A program that uses natural language colour names as an input. An internet agent then goes looking for representations of that colour in the wild, takes the average of all of them and returns the definition to the user.

It kinda works already: check out lindgrün (pastel green) or petrol green. Of course [...]

Fette Linien braucht es, um sich abzugrenzen

Woven at 2007-07-31T22:24, coloured as .

Nun, was sagt eigentlich das Büro zur Nullnummer von punktzehah?

Scheint so, als müsste sich das neuste Fastfood-Newsmagazin auf dem Schweizer Markt vor allem mit fetten Linien von allen anderen abgrenzen. Zumindest verwenden sie die DIN, was als Schrift eine nicht allzu üble Wahl ist.

Ansonsten wird geklotzt, sei es mit Schriften oder mit grossen Bildern.

70er-Tapete

Woven at 2007-07-10T11:35, coloured as .

Sunrise gibt sich ein neues Corporate Design, was ich schon mal nicht eine so schlechte Idee finde angesichts der Tatsache, dass Sunrise neben der mittelmässig-durchschnittlichen Swisscom und der unerreichbar stylischen Orange immer ein wenig negativ – weil billig – aufgefallen ist. Als neues Logo dient der Namenszug Sunrise, der neu grossgeschrieben wird. Die warmen Farben des Sonnenaufgangs — Gelb, Orange, Rot und Purpur — sollen positive Emotionen wecken…. Als Unternehmenschrift kommt Frutiger zum Einsatz, wodurch der Telco seine Schweizerische Verankerung unterstreichen will. Die Farben sind nicht schlecht, die Streifen so eine üble Idee ebenfalls nicht. Frutiger ist als Schriftwahl eine klassische und nicht gerade mutige Wahl, und spricht vor allem gegen die britische Agentur, die als «Schweizer Schriften» wohl nur die Frutiger und möglicherweise noch die Helvetica kennt. Doch wenn dieser quadratische Monolith effektiv das gesamte Logo darstellen soll, so bin ich etwas enttäuscht.

Shaun Inman: Com/post

Woven at 2007-01-07T13:39, coloured as .

Shaun Inman: Com/post Originally uploaded by xeophin.

Shaun Inman’s designs are always breathtaking and beautifully executed.

I find the colour codes he has now introduced in his com/post especially intriguing: Depending on when an entry has been posted, it will receive a unique colour. This colour will [...]

Mark Boulton: Five Simple Steps to designing with colour part 3: Colour combinations

Woven at 2007-01-03T21:04, coloured as .

These are very difficult questions to answer because any designer or client will let their personal style and preference interfere with their decision-making. Colour combinations tend to evoke certain reactions either by cultural, or personal experience. Understanding these experiences will help you create colour combinations that tell a story.

Shifting Perspectives

Woven at 2006-09-26T17:36, coloured as .

Afterwork fun: Beautiful animations by Angdoo Lee.

Songbirdnest.com blogs: For The Visual Thinkers

Woven at 2006-06-07T11:42, coloured as .

Wow. Beautiful visualisation comes from Songbird.

flickr: Creative Typography

Woven at 2006-05-09T16:55, coloured as .

Creative Typography

Originally uploaded by xeophin.

I just found this in my Junk folder. I don’t understand one word of it (obviously), yet it seems to advertise some porn.

The really interesting thing is the creative use of symbols to create the illusion of swimming sperms – some kind of extended emoticon, or should I call them pornocons?

Justification, Old School

Woven at 2006-04-12T23:38, coloured as .

«Even with today’s very sophisticated H&J [Hyphenation and Justification] algorithms — some of which can even scale the actual dimensions of letterforms in order to improve copyfit — the chief ingredient in good H&J controlling the number of letters per line. Contemporary newspapers do this through aggressive hyphenation; their forbears did it through colorful spelling.»

Black Coffee

Woven at 2006-02-09T13:12, coloured as .

Now this deserves a special mention: Black Coffee (with milk), Christian Etters Portfolio.

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