Woodtyper
Woodtyper – Notes on large and ornamented type and related matters.
Woodtyper is an online journal focusing on wood type and related topics, such as large-scale lettering, decorative typefounding, letterpress printing, sign painting, penmanship, poster printing, engraving, etc.
This is a cornucopia of typographic goodness for those that get excited about letter forms.
Woodtyper.com
Monet Expo site
No introduction needed here. This is just the web site for the Monet show recently showing in Paris’s Grand Palais. I was lucky enough to catch this (cuz I’m so special and French) and if you’re planning to be in Paris before the 24th Jan. you show definitely check it out. You’ll be waiting in [...]
Briar Press
Briar Press is a community of letterpress printers, book artists, and press enthusiasts. The site is dedicated to the preservation of letterpress-era equipment and the art of fine printing.
The ‘Cuts’ section of this blog is a great resource for ornamental typography such as drop caps and the like.
www.briarpress.org
Stories with the Full Background
Here are a couple of billboards that CNN are using to promote themselves in Turkey. Advertising campaigns that are influenced by street art usually look quite forced, but I think that these are well conceived and realized.
Diesel: Not Made for Running…
Here’s one in addition to Josh’s post of the great Be Stupid campaign. This ad campaign to run aside the Be Stupid campaign is titled: Not made for running – “Great for kicking asses”. Of the series of commercial spots, I think this one deserves the most laughs. There are 7 others I believe, most [...]
Be Stupid.
Diesel, the international jeans brand, is launching “Be Stupid“, a campaign that encourages consumers to take risks and move beyond the smart and sensible track for life. The campaign, developed at Anomaly London, includes online, press and outdoor advertisements featuring “stupid” acts.
‘Dot’. The world’s smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8
What happens when you attach a CellScope to a Nokia N8 smartphone and let a team of talented animators play with them? You get the world’s smallest stop motion animation movie.
UK’s animation studio Aardman used N8’s 12 megapixel camera and a CellScope to film the main character, a miniature girl called Dot, as she struggles [...]
Space: NASA vs RAYGUN GOTHIC
The work of the marvelous Philip Bond.
I love Phil’s work, he has a childlike love of all things to do with space, much like every man who was a small boy in the early 70’s.
But he seems to be drawn equally by Astro/Cosmo-nauts as he is by the bright new tomorrow typified by the Raygun [...]
Up Close
I took the ID students to this exhibition today, they seemed to like it, I know I did! Have a look, it’s worth the trek to the outer reaches of Melbourne.
AKIRA!!!
These are original scans from one of the best and most famous animations ever; Akira. This movie is partly responsible for making me want to learn how to draw when I first saw in 1989… Still to this day it’s up there with the best. Even it’s themes are still current today… Some people think [...]