Woodward Design » typography http://woodwarddesign.ca/blog The Birdhouse Tue, 01 May 2012 15:07:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Photo Lettering http://woodwarddesign.ca/blog/2011/04/14/photo-lettering/ http://woodwarddesign.ca/blog/2011/04/14/photo-lettering/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:22:51 +0000 amanda http://woodwarddesign.ca/blog/?p=835

Amazing new type resource for designers: Photo lettering.

It allows you purchase a simple headline or sentence in vector without having to buy the whole font!

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Typographical beauty in this mexican cafe interior…Cielito Querido Café

via designworklife

These dear blank pages are also hilarious, simple messages.

Dear Blank Please Blank – More awesome dear blanks on the website!

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We had fun with our holiday promo this year…

Amanda from Bluebird Cakes created some delicious Figgy Puddings!

We gave out loads of Fig themed poster/gift wrap and gift tag packages.

Facts about figs

The Queen of Trees – A fig tree documentary!

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Honey&Mackie ChocolateCone

Loving this packaging design by Wink. Featured in the latest Comm Arts Typography Annual and on the Dieline!

A browse through their website and I discover some of my favourite winning designs over the years were created by Wink.

Wink Blog.

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Loving the typography on these book covers by  Jim Tierney! How inspiring.

Via Design Work Life

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Via Designworklife

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An illustrative initial every day! “The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations.”

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House Industries has some lovely new type posters for sale.

If they had a W I would have been pulling my credit card out in a flash :)

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Some nice type in Real Simple Magazine.

Found via Design Work Life.

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Discover clever puns and typographical delights over at Veer’s Kerned Events.

This one is so delicious! I immediately thought of 1980′s rock out girl with frosted pink lipstick :)

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