Founded in 2002, OurType.be is a collaborative font publishing website initiated by Fred Smeijers, a first generation digital type designer. The website, all in flash (argh…), can seem a bit strange to navigate at first, but is very nice. In fact you can easily try the font live and see it at different sizes. Every […]

A cool dress on Flickr Nice short animation for the Zürich Chamber Orchestra The great sketchbook of Jim Stoten Food that has taken the shape of its container New graphic design in China The Helvetica Neue t-shirt Build, share and download fonts with FontStruct You can of course follow me on my Tumblelog is you […]

Typorganism is a seris of communication experiments exploring computational interaction design and interactive kinetic typography based on the metaphorical notion of typography “Type is a life form”, which lives on the Net, responds to user’s stimulus, evolves through time, has intelligence powered by computational algorithm. http://www.typorganism.com

Interesting thoughts at David Shea’s Mezzoblue on the interest for designers to sell web products. He describes 6 ways to make money selling products: t-shirts, buttons, icons, stock photography, typefaces and web templates. He doesn’t seem to believe in the viability of selling such products online, but seems to be quite happy with his experience […]

Amazing posters by Reza Abedini I had the chance to travel to some arabic countries where I discovered the beauty of calligraphy as building or object ornementation. However, I’ve been wondering how this free style could be transposed into movable types or glyphs. Well, after doing a little research I can say that I’ve not […]

Very nice…

Made me laugh. Via Type for You.

Can’t stand people using Comic Sans MS on websites you read? This user script is for you, it will help you to get rid of every instance of Comic Sans MS and replace it by a simple black sans-serif font.

A font face inspired by the smoking ban in british pubs last year by Chrissie Abbott. Via It’s Nice That.

Just discovered the work of Eduardo Recife, some beautiful designs to see on his site.

Sometimes being a compulsive eBay buyer can be a good thing. Recently I acquired an old chinese book. The thing that immediately amazed me is the quality and the variety in the pages layout and the typography. Unfortunately I can’t read japanese, so I don’t understand anything about the meaning of the book. Interesting headers […]

A really ironic book cover, seen on typography.com. Via Daring Fireball.

I guess that not many of you are readers of Dairy Today. However you have to read this article about the spectacular redesign of the magazine. The elegant use of typography combined with great photos gives a strong graphical impact to the covers. The plain background colour is a really good choice to give a […]

2007 is over, time to take a look at the logo design trends throughout that year. Logo Lounge has an interesting review of different styles of logos that stood out in 2007.

Just after my post on typography in motion, I find this incredible video introduction for the “Typophile Film Festival”. It’s better than anything that I posted here before, and I sincerely doubt that they’ll get anything better than this during the festival. Via Type for you.