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So as reported in a previous post ‘Typodarium 2010 Typographic Calendar’, I now have two of these to giveaway, well in time for the New Year. Oh, I am so considerate and thoughtful.
Expanded Font came into view via a link on Behance. It’s a chunky, phat and modular font. You could previously request a copy of Expanded direct from Aurelio’s website. So after linking to it on my Posterous, I approached Aurelio to see if we could make Expanded available as a direct free download from IJC.
Found Aeroportal, a rather tasty free font, via TypeGoodness. I have not seen this font before, yet it has been around for a few years. I have seen commercial variations of it, but when I realised it was also a free download with 3 weights, then this became even cooler. It’s ideal for logo designs, titles and certain size body text.
Continuing my series of Helvetica based TV and Movie posters (Silence of the Lambs and Stargate Atlantis), I proudly bring you House M.D. once of my most watched TV shows. Love the character, love the acting, the humour, the banter and the various personality conflicts.
There are a number of well known inspiration and submission sites like FFFFound, ImgFav, Dropular, I Heart This, ImageSpark, Vi.sualise.us, YayEveryday, PicoCool. Most of these are pretty mainstream, but I have encountered some other cool sites worthy of a bookmark or two. A few border on being portfolio sites as well, but all are great places to expand your thirst for visual inspiration.
Am now ready to announce the winner of this marvelous typographic poster, based on the periodic table. The designer, Camdon Wilde clearly onto a classy winner has now come up with version 2, in a stylish black and silver version.
Was cool to be able to offer an FFFFound invite up like this, shame I could not offer more, but it’s one invite per ‘invite’ so to speak. So I narrowed down the list of potentials, then randomly chose one name from 10.
Based on my previous poster design ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, here is another. This time round, basing it on one of my favourite sci-fi shows, Stargate. I have focused on the lead character played by Joe Flanigan, alias ‘Lt. Colonel John Sheppard’. Choosing one of my favourite quotes, ‘I hate those things.’
You are now aware that the Viper logo is Daffy Duck’s face upside-down. The power of the viral post… Within seconds of this being tweeted last night, Twitter retweets and such like went through the roof. It’s an interesting image of course, but one wonders if this is purely accidental or possibly a sort of ‘easter egg’.
Some logo and typographic foolishness. A ‘spin off’ idea from a ‘legit’ logo project called ‘Fifty Two Keys’. Where the obvious subject matter of piano keys etc seemed to be unavoidable. During the project, several other ‘fun’ ideas came about.
A self initiated poster design based on an actual illustration of Hannibal Lectar that I drew some years ago. The drawing was done in pencil and charcoal only. It’s sat in my archives for years, so felt I could add some more life to it by creating a movie poster from it.
If you don’t yet follow the incredible A2592 blog, then you are likely missing out on some real neat stuff. Like this new font for example, of which they have kindly made available a free Beta release until the commercial version comes out. So grab it now
Periodic Table of Typefaces Poster I have one of these marvelous typographic posters, based on the periodic table, to give to one random soul. The designer, Camdon Wilde clearly onto a classy winner has now come up with version 2, …
Found this site a few weeks back, but only just recently started playing with it. Spectives collects RSS feeds and presents the data in a visual thumbnail way. So rather than bucket loads of text, it shows the main image of each RSS feed.
An interesting subject for a post me thinks. Time after time, us logo designers come up with 100′s of ideas in the process of satisfying each client. We amass these unused concepts and use them and modify them for future projects.This post is more of a question but also an answer. It’s hypothetical, but not. I am also curious to know what you would do in this following situation?
Just got my hands on three of these Typodarium 2010 Calenders from Verlad Hermann Schmidt Mainz, a very nicely packaged and compact desk typographic calendar. I do however realise three is a bit greedy for one person, hence I will have two to giveaway very shortly.
