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Book lovers: the most beautiful bookstores in the world
Since the beginning of the digital era the future of printed books has been questioned and thought to become eventually obsolete. Now with the e-readers and tablets and all sorts of gadgets that are competing with the printed media, the editorial production has to step up to the plate adding value to their production from other angles. For us the book lovers out there, bookstores are...
Typographic love: a tribute to Futura
Designed in 1928 by Paul Renner, Futura is a typeface that has become one of the most used in everyday things. Its creation became a revolution in the type wold, since its geometric and sans serif nature initiated a whole different family of fonts from then on. The delicate geometric style that this typography is based on makes tribute to the Bauhaus style, starting with the three basic and most...
Great logos: Word as Image
Ji Lee, designer and creative director at the Google Creative Lab has come up with a book that showcases his brilliant work with logos. The overall idea is to take each letter of the alphabet and transform it into a simple logo, where word meets image. The results are brilliant, the designs are really simple and clever with a hint of humour.
We've already seen how the minimalistic...
Typography love: Skin Type
Designer Bryan Stewart came up with Skin Type and as the name suggests, a digital print inspired font. Pretty simple, straight to the point and cleverly brilliant.
Everyone has one. Any time you've written on your hand, you've created one.
A unique DNA based typeface.
And as a side note, his Designer Rainbowmade me chuckle. Check out his work, design with a bit of humour is definitely...
Interesting findings: Stereogranimator
The NY Public Library Labs has released a website, the Stereogranimator, where you can see and create 3D animated gifs out of old pictures from their archive. As they explain on their website, many of the 19th century pictures were taken with almost identical copies, which were meant to be seen together each side lending the other a sense of depth that a photograph alone cannot possess.
The...