Archive for category Interesting
Strategies for the Effective Tweeter
Posted by fontgear in Interesting, Tip on July 9, 2012
We will be sharing a few business related posts throughout this week. We’ve found them helpful & hope maybe you will, too!
These are great especially, we think, for small businesses & designers.
Today we’re sharing a marketing study for Twitter. Twitter can be a great & effective tool for businesses if it’s only used properly. Hopefully this review will get you on the right track.
For a more in depth look, you can also download the full report.
Dancers Font
Posted by fontgear in Font Related, Interesting on June 29, 2012
“Five dancers. Exact in position. Zippered into their sparkles. Quietly glowing like diamonds. Bejeweled. Composing a font.”
According to Howard Schats.
I can’t stop looking through all of the photos in the set of his ‘Dancer’ font. You can view the entire set here.
The Marginal Margin
Posted by fontgear in Interesting, Uncategorized on May 17, 2012
“Perhaps fifty per cent of the character and integrity of a printed page lies in its letterforms. Much of the other fifty per cent resides in its margins.” — Robert Bringhurst
I recently read an article over at I Love Typography that compares margins in books of old to the more commonly small margined & mass produced books of today.
There are definitely benefits to our new, smaller margined pages – thinner books & less paper used being a big factor. The practical aside, however – because after all, if we were really concerned about saving space & paper, we would just download a book to our iPad – but to me, there is still something about picking up an old, musty smelling book with beautifully wide margins somehow makes the reading experience, just a little bit better.
Any thoughts on this? You can read the article here & let me know what you think!
Creative Alphabets
Posted by fontgear in Font Related, Interesting on May 14, 2012
We’ve come across some pretty clever alphabets lately, & thought we should share a few of our favorites with you!
Enjoy!
Pebble Alphabet by Clotilde Olyuff.
Buildings & Sky Alphabet by Lisa Rienermann.
Rubber Band Alphabet by Nicolas Queffelec.
A Magazine for Pixel People
Posted by fontgear in Font Related, Interesting on April 12, 2012
“Reading it offline, in a distraction-free environment, allows us to step away from the digital context and reflect on our industry from a more perennial angle. And, let’s be honest, who doesn’t like flipping through a real magazine?”
This easily sums up OffScreen Magazines self acclaimed ’oldfashioned’ ways of doing things. Making its debute just two months ago, OffScreen Magazine already seems to be finding their nitch among readers. As its name would suggest, OffScreen is dedicated to exploring the lives & work of people who are creating apps & websites behind the scenes, or, off screen, via beautifully printed pages.
We quite agree with them on this one. Sometimes having the actual publication in your hands feels extra special. Currently, OffScreen plans on publishing three volumes annually. Volume one is currently available at most major newsstands, or you can buy it online.
The New Instagram for Type Lovers
Posted by fontgear in Interesting, Software, Uncategorized on March 23, 2012
An up & coming app for your iPhone or iTouch - Fontli is the new Instagram for type lovers. It functions nearly the same, with a news feed, page for popular images, a picture feed for friends & the ability to share images on both Facebook & Twitter. Users also have the ability, however, to tag typefaces & add fonts as favorites.
Fontli is still a work in progress. We think it will, hopefully, only improve over time as more type loving folks download the app & begin uploading photos.
And did we mention its free???
You can check it out at www.fontli.com
We Make Words
Posted by fontgear in Interesting on March 14, 2012
Luci Everett & Amy Borrell – two graphic designers, started a blog project called “We Make Words”- photographing words made by little bits & pieces of pretty much anything. So far they have created over sixty seven words that you can see on their website wemakewords.blogspot.com.
It’s a curiously simple & still clever idea. It makes you want to try your hand at a few yourself, doesn’t it?
The Best of 2011
Posted by fontgear in Font Related, Interesting on February 29, 2012
Typographica.org has put together a grouping that fairly accurately gives us ‘the best of’ 2011 typefaces. The list is compiled from a group of writers, educators, type users & makers (Matthew Butterick, Paul van der Laan, Jens Kutilek & Carolina de Bartolo to name a few). Each contributor chose a font to be added to the list of 50. You can see them all & who picked them over at Typographica.
shown:
Bookmania, designed by Mark Simonson
PressPausePlay
Posted by fontgear in Interesting, Technology on February 1, 2012
The digital revolution of the past ten years has given us opportunities like never before to unleash creativity – but does that opportunity really make our art, music & film better?
This & more is discussed in PressPausePlay. An inspiring documentary you can now watch in its entirety, on vimeo.
Plenty of Fish in the C
Posted by fontgear in Interesting, Technical, Uncategorized on January 19, 2012
And other things we have been liking the past few weeks…enjoy!
by Jay Fleck
by Nicholas Stevenson - a logo for the band Foxx Bandits
this free font – as well as a list of others collected by smashing magazine.
