Monday, January 11th 2010 2:34pm

I finally got around to trying Pentagram’s ‘What Type Are You’ application. In it, they ask four character questions, analyzes your responses in detail, and recommends one of 16 typefaces as a result.
Go to the ‘What Type Are You’ test.
Password: Character
(For the record, I was Bifur, designed by French graphic artist Cassandre.)
Typography
design
nyc
Thursday, December 17th 2009 12:28pm


Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth compared a selection of the most commonly used typefaces for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size.
The project called, Measuring Type, uses large scale renditions of the typefaces drawn out with ballpoint pens, allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface.
(via swissmiss)
Typography
Thursday, June 4th 2009 8:24am
Brooklyn based artist Ebon Heath creates complex mobiles made out of beautiful jumbles of letters and words. His typographic sculptures free text from the confines of 2D space and where it can engage with the larger physical environment.
(via Yatzer)
Typography
Sculpture
Thursday, April 16th 2009 5:41pm
Tuesday, April 7th 2009 10:23am
Sunday, March 29th 2009 3:33pm