Traditional sign painting
July 9, 2009
Jeff Canham formerly art directed Surfer Magazine, and now he's a sign painter and artist in SF. Hand crafted, traditional, typographic goodness. Found via lettercult on twitter.
Speaking of Twitter, Woodward Design now has a page. Now you can follow some little bits of news and projects from our studio. I'm ...more
flames of love of type
May 1, 2009
Fantastic type designer and illustrator Sebastian Lester has some stunning typographic poster prints that are worth more than a second look. Prints are limited edition so get them while they're hot! more
Grafica Fildalga at 99%
This was one of the very inspiring videos I watched at the 99% Conference.
From the Cool Hunting website:
Grafica Fidalga, a printing press in São Paulo, Brazil, makes posters on a 1929 German letterpress using hand-carved wooden letters. In this video, we visit the trio of friends who make up Grafica ...more
We like words
April 7, 2009
We like words. more
pillow fight!
February 19, 2009
A clever typographical poster design...for a pillow fight! I am a sucker for feathers...
Op Hop is a graphic design student living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Found via flickrdesign
On a related note, San Francisco had a pillow fight for Valentines day. Andrea captured it well. Now, wouldn't that be a blast? more
Identify fonts with your iPhone
February 11, 2009
What The Font, the stellar app from MyFonts that lets you upload an image of a typeface and (abracadabra) tells you its name, is now available for the iPhone.
Snap a photo with the built-in camera, crop the type, verify its detection of different characters, and submit! I tried it on ...more
house industry treats
February 6, 2009
These House Industry toys (Memory Game, Puzzle and Girard Blocks) are simply gorgeous! Too bad for the $320 price tag... looks like when I have kids I will be illustrating my own memory games.
On the other hand, I think I could spend my pennies on the Girard Slab Family of fonts. What a lovely selection of illustrative ...more
Paper-Cut Illustration
December 15, 2008
This gave me shivers! This is the work of Yulia Brodskaya, a graphic designer and illustrator who was born in Russia, and now works out of London.
via: swissmiss, chrisglass more
keep calm and carry on
December 8, 2008
I know this might be old news in the internet world, but I love the simplicity of the Keep Calm and Carry On message. These beautiful posters are for sale over here.
A suitable message leading into 2009, delivered with clean san serif type. Yum!
Photo by Arthur's Circus more
