via i love typography/Nubbytwiglet.

Did some of these lately. Hand-pulled screen print on J. Crew tees. They are stocked at Whimsical Articles (1st Floor, Bangsar Village I).

ObamaBats is a collection of 24 dingbats featuring U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama.It is free for download, upload, distribution, use and modification. By Jeff Domke.

via one+infinity.

Type Sky by Lisa Rienermann.

via i love typography.

This is excellent. Typographical response to dialogue from Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. By Ben White.

via oneplusinfinity.

This one made me laugh.

via ffffound.

Settled once and for all here.

via quipsologies.

Yes, lawyers need to know typography too. More here.

via Design Observer.

Body Type by Ina Saltz is a book on typographic tattoos. Moving away from traditional art-based tattoos, the book focuses on how type when used to convey a message, becomes an image of beauty etched on skin. It’s certainly a book for lovers of type and tattoos. Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, writer, photographer and professor (at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and magazine design. You can buy Body Type here. Volume 2 of Body Type is expected in 2009.

The Journal of Urban Typography has an amazing and growing collection of photos featuring typefaces found in NYC.

via quipsologies.

“The two members of the Co family come from the same tree, but each branch has its own evolutionary details and purpose. Co Headline has modern, fashionable leanings, but as it is with nature, there is nothing superfluous in the typeface. The geometric (yet organic) curves combine to create only the most basic shape required for each letter. Co Text replaces some of its relative’s stylized glyphs with more familiar and readable forms.”

Available from font shop.

Location: Eureka Tower, Melbourne. Design by Axel Peemoeller.
This is a new and unique twist to directional signage in a car park. And it did win a host of international design awards. It can be read perfectly when viewed from the right position.

via kent mag blog.

Available at Urban Hunter.

This is 23PSI generated by Wordle.

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”

via DesignObserver.

A hilarious video by College Humor on the admission of Zapf Dingbats as a font.

via swissmiss.

You are at a restaurant and they forgot your order. You have to wait longer than usual and this is what happens.

via I Love Typography.

grawlix, n. A string of typographical symbols used (especially in comic strips) to represent an obscenity or swear word.

via Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

“The popularity of generated content and social media is transforming the web. No longer does a site need a flashy intro or exciting graphics to entice a user to dig deeper, search engines and smart architecture bring the user right to what they are seeking, and when they find that… they want to appreciate it for what it is. Usability, readability and find-ability are in style, while hefty load times, blinking graphics, and cluttered pages are out.

“This focus on content is similar to the shift in design that happened after World War II known as the International Typographic Style (or Swiss Style) Movement. The Swiss movement grew out of the Bauhaus and New Typography Movements, which were grounded in functional typography, clear communication, and geometric designs. The Chief characteristics of the international typographic style are designs that include minimal graphics and a focus on typography, sans-serif Typefaces, black and white photography, and grid based layouts.”

From Bad Ass Ideas. Read the rest of the entry here.

via quipsologies.

In aid of UNICEF’s Myanmar Cyclone Children’s Appeal. It costs GBP3.00, all of which will go to the cause. The same applies for purchases outside Europe with the exception of an additional GBP2.99 to cover shipping. Buy it here.