$15!
That’s it, just $15 measly dollars. Which, after these past few posts, seems like mere pocket change for this super-cool 2-in-1 wooden trivet set.  It has asterisks… Woo! Love me some asterisks! Â
Add comment April 10th, 2008
Posts filed under 'type'
in a nutshell…
This poster? Story of my life.
(ok, all except for the crown)
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Add comment December 11th, 2007
quite possibly…
Sam Potts, the design genius behind the Areas of My Expertise book cover and the Brooklyn Superhero Supply signage, may, quite possibly, have the best website I’ve ever seen.Â
Add comment December 7th, 2007
I steal from artists…
So we've discussed my immense love for Adam Koford’s work. We’ve ogled over the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats and also his hoboes, but we have not yet looked at the Alphabet of Monsters.
I’ve had my eye on these for a long time — they are nothing short of amazing. For awhile, they were only available on t-shirts, and well, the obsessive-compulsive in me was having a fight with my inner realist over owning the entire alphabet in wearable form. So imagine my glee when I saw that he had added a book. A book! My mind raced. I know! I’ll buy three — one to read to the kids and two to cut up and frame for the boy’s room. It was perfect, until…
I noticed the font. And, Adam, I love your work, but I desperately hate that font. I tried and tried to hit that “order” button, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. If I’m going to frame and hang art, I want it to be something I love and want to look at again and again. And I’m pretty sure I wanted to stop looking at the Ad Lib typeface oh, about 1995.
And then I spied the e-book. There was my solution… I’d buy the e-book, cut and paste the monsters and add the captions in the face of my choosing. Perfect. And it cost less than $2. Two measly dollars. Which gave me the second pause of this transaction. Oh, the guilt. Here he’d drawn this awesome set of monsters and I was getting it for $1.66? I felt like adding in $20 just to assuage my conscience, but web shopping carts don’t seem to have such a button.
Dude, you have to raise the price. Or change the font. Or something.
A is for Futura (yeah, me and Wes Anderson, we live for the Futura)
B is for Monster Kit and
C is for Bella
1 comment October 29th, 2007
a red letter day…
So I know you all hear the words, “I’m a graphic designer,” and think, “WHOA! that sounds like just about the most fascinating job I’ve ever heard.” But it’s not. In fact, most of our time is not spent on the fancy earth-shattering designs with the oh-so witty concept. Most of the time we’re just slogging away at crap jobs, a big part of which is trying to track down all the stupid shit important information we need to finish some exceptionally boring brochure. Mundane things like photos of Important Business Man Number One shaking hands with Important Business Man Number Two, while they both pose awkwardly for the camera. Or some logo that a company has been using for 20 years, yet no one seems to have a usable electronic copy.
I say this all as a preface to the incredibly rare thing that happened to me today. I needed a logo for a project. People were not forthcoming with said logo. On a lark, I sent it through What the Font?! and, lo and behold, it was just a font! And, even better, the font was free. FREE! FREE FONT! AND NOT SOME DIPWEED ONE LIKE COMIC SANS. ONE THAT I ACTUALLY NEEDED!
WHY AM I YELLING? BECAUSE THIS… NEVER… HAPPENS. Never. Ever. Not in real design life anyway. Somebody pinch me.
3 comments August 22nd, 2007
this. is. atrocious…
Thanks to an alert from Frances, I’m now both somewhat seething and bewildered at the new logo just unveiled for the 2012 London Olympics.
Here are my first thoughts:
- Oh goody, the 80s are back… this must be the cover of the new Flock of Seagulls reunion album
- I’m not sure they got their $300 worth from logoworks.com
- This was the joke logo that the designer made up late one night and it accidentally got thrown into the presentation
It is horrid. There’s no other way to describe it. Oh wait, yes there is… here’s how they describe it:
Our emblem is simple, distinct, bold and buzzing with energy. Its form is inclusive yet consistent and has incredible flexibility to encourage access and participation. It can communicate with anyone from commercial organisations to kids playing sport. It feels young in spirit. Full of confidence, certainty and opportunity. Not afraid to shake things up, to challenge the accepted. To change things.
I call bullshit. It’s what you do while you’re still in art school, it’s 1:00 am and that grand idea for the project due tomorrow still hasn’t popped into your head. You pull together something weak and then try to justify it with a bunch of blathery artspeak.
Did you notice that it’s supposed to be a stylized 2012? Yeah, me neither, and I’m usually pretty good at picking up those things. I think perhaps the initial shock of it seared my retinas and I’m at a bit of a disadvantage right now…
ya gotta love a logo that has to be explained, right? Because that’s what logos are all about — getting the point across, only after you’ve read detailed descriptions about them.
3 comments August 6th, 2007
spoiler alert!
So if you’re some kind of super film geek who gets upset about people giving away spoilers, do not — DO NOT — go look at the über cool Spoilt t-shirt over at Threadless. Yes, there’ve been a few of these spoiler shirts, but most are just text… this one does a great job with the icons and typography.
You’re not peeking at those spoilers, are you?
You know, if you really were some kind of super film geek, you’d have already seen all of these movies, and it wouldn’t really be a problem, now would it?
Add comment May 21st, 2007
so here’s my problem…
I’m a bit of a type junkie.
I love a good, versatile sans serif.
I *adore* this new one named Antenna from FontBureau.
I do not have the $1,400 required to own the whole family.
hence, my problem.
Add comment January 21st, 2007