This re-printed T-shirt and hoodie design from threadless tickles my funny bone again and again. I hope they make it in poster form (which are on sale for $25 this week)!
Smashing Magazine just rounded-up dozens of creative table of contents(es?).
I love the one above, the last one on the web-page with the windshield wipers, and many, many in between. Go check them out!
Stickers and Donuts is taking a little break for Fourth of July, but I’ll be back full-force at the end of the next week with delightful and lovely things. Thought I can’t promise I won’t post from the road.
So, happy fourth! Check out Urban Outfitter’s campaign blog, which is stocked full of beautiful election & political graphics like the one above from Scott Hansen at ISO50. All proceeds from the purchase of the above print go to Obama’s campaign.
So, I just got the newest issue of PRINT magazine in my mailbox (which is totally dedicated to typography, yay), and on page 14 I found TypeIsArt.com. (You know, so if I’m tired of Bembo’s Zoo, making fonts free online, and creating word clouds, then I have something else to do.) Type is Art states that:
“All letterforms are composed of 21 distinct parts. Most commonly these parts combine to form the characters of our alphabet. Type is Art allows for the experimentation of forms beyond this typical character set.”
You can see these “distinct parts” on the above poster from the Type is Art web-page.
Anyway, the best part of Type is Art is that you can create your own art online, for free! You can twist and turn letters and make them bigger and smaller. Most importantly, you can waste hours of what should be “work time.” And, really, that’s what the internet is for, isn’t it?
Click more to see my own Type is Art creation!
Since I’m having a typographically-oriented day, I’ll just add that the August edition of PRINT Magazine is dedicated to type and form.
I especially like this article, availible online, called “Good Type Gone Bad” about typography meant for one thing being used (unsuccessfully) for something totally different.
I cannot stop playing on Wordle, a site that lets you use delicious tags or text to create an artsy word cloud like one above made with my delicious tags (in fact, you can put in anyone’s delicious user name to create a word cloud). The more times a word appears, the bigger it is (look how big the word “design” is!). You can change the font, colors, orientation of text, etc.
The site is free, and you don’t even need to sign up!
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Roar! Check out Bembo’s Zoo for an ABC’s worth of animals made out of the letters that spell their name! I guess I’m on a typography kick today.
(A lion above and a turtle after the jump, but visit the web-site for the full effect of the letters moving around to create the animal!) (more…)
Check out this article from the New York Times about designing your own font online! The best part? The service, run by font giant FontShop, is FREE (to create and use as an actual font on your Mac or PC) and you can look at tons of cool, new creations in the gallery. As soon as I use it, I’ll be sure to post a comprehensive review!
Not ready to make your own font? Download free fonts at one of my favorite font web-pages, or brush up (ie learns lots of things you never knew) on your typography skills with these fun, detail-oriented lessons on quite a pretty little web-site. If you are a typography nut like me, you can also check out all of the Stickers & Donuts posts related to typography.
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WORDCOUNT.org ranks words based on frequence of use. For example, “stickers” is the 18,703th most used word. You can look up words by word or by rank or you can just scroll around. (This is especially fun if you enjoy Word of the Day and want to know if the random word you’re given is ever actually used.)
You can also visit QUERYCOUNT.org (Number one? Sex.) which is formated the same way, but ranks the most searched words on WORDCOUNT.
Mostly, this site is web-design at its best (the site even won an award from AIGA)!
David Fincher’s (director of Fight Club, Seven, etc) newest film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is coming out this Christmas, and I’m already getting excited. The film is based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that’s now in the public domain. Which means you can legally read ugly versions of it on your very own computer.
Lucky for us, Jonathan McNicol at Never Mind That, Never Mind That Now is making a pretty, typeset pdf for all of us lovers of good literature and good typography! So far, he’s got the first two chapters out. Thanks Kitsune Noir for alerting me to this!
Today I’m reporting back on just some of the prints I enjoyed at the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn this past weekend (for all kinds of other Renegade Fun, click here and don’t stop scrolling!)
There were way too many lovely & wonderful prints for me to collect them all here, so don’t think this is a comprehensive collection of the creme de la creme. Although these guys are pretty, er, creamy.
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How adorable are these old school silkscreened prints (below) from animalsleep? If you want to go straight to buying a print, click here. They’re about $20-30. Very affordable for such lovely things. (**Oh, and can you not buy this one? Because it’s my favorite.**) They also make shirts and other whatnots, if you’d rather wear your art.
Sycamore Street Press is a letterpress studio that makes lovely, lovely letterpress cards (featured on all kinds of blogs these days, too!) — very delicate, a lot of pastel colors — so why is it that I gravitate towards the print below (available here)? It’s only $20 and I think it’s so funny!
I have a little place in my heart for linoleum printing (though I’m kind of/a lot jealous of these!), so I got pretty excited when I saw Tugboat Print Shop sitting right before my very eyes with their linoleum blocks out for show. (”These are the linoleum blocks you print from?” I ask stupidly, artstruck.) They range from about $20-80. (I happen to like this dragon and this house.)
And I can’t forget these Renegade Craft Fair screenprinted posters. They are like the posters you get at band concerts. Except better. And for a craft fair.
And I love the screenprinted posters from Strawberry Luna!
My (albeit limited, perhaps I’ll try again tomorrow!) quest to find the business card of the printmakers below has failed (hmm, why can’t I find that business card?). If you know who they are, please comment below!
I am so in love with the new Kitsune Noir desktop backgrounds by Kristina Collantes that even though I already posted about the KN Wallpaper Project this morning, I just had to post again. (PS I have a thing for cute skulls. Also, this is a coordinating pair of backgrounds, which is great if you work with dual screens!) (more…)
The blog Kitsune Noir is currently hosting The Desktop Wallpaper Project where you can get fabulous, artsy computer wallpapers like the ones above and below. What’s even better is that the wallpapers come in all different sizing, including ones for the iphone and PSP. (more…)
The awesomely designed T-shirts over at Threadless are on super-sale until Sunday. Get ‘em while they’re hot (er, $10). Those Threadless Prints I was writing about are also on sale — $5 off — and there are new ones, too!
The other day SwissMiss had a post referencing a grass-text photoshop tutorial at psdtuts.com. That had me inescapably obsessed with all of the text tutorials, one in particular, that helped me create the Stickers & Donuts design above. (Perhaps I should turn that one into a desktop background? I’ll let you know if I do!)
Pictures of the tutorial design below! (more…)
