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The History of Title Design

Bradford Shellhammer — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:41:19 +0000

A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

Ian Albinson's A Brief History of Title Design was created for the SXSW "Excellence in Title Design" competition screening. In it the title designs of television shows and movies are woven into a study of font and style. For font and movie nerds alike, it's a fun film to watch. So many are instantly recognizable. My fave: DR. NO. Included are:

Flaky typeface

Matthew Rodriguez — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:30:42 +0000

Norwegian designer Veronica Falsen Hiis constructed a n’ice typeface out of snow back in December 2008. It’s very apropos for this particularly snowy winter we’ve been having in the tri-state area this year. [Via]

Barbed wire typeface

Matthew Rodriguez — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:39:18 +0000

Fellow SUNfilterer Perrin Drumm’s recent write up about the MoMA’s acquisition of some typefaces reminded me to post about artist Andrew Effendy’s piece “The Devil’s Rope/Type.” Shaped to look like “sinister” barbed wire, the artist “makes you mull over the role of language and how—especially, in today’s world of information overload—language has the power to [...]

Books as fonts and more!

Matthew Rodriguez — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:31:37 +0000

As a bibliophile and typeface-ophile, I’m quite fond or, excuse the pun, “font” of photographer and self-described storyteller Paul Octavious’s “Book Collection” in which the artist has been creating whimsical fonts and other creations using just artfully piled stacks of books. What a creative way of making order from disorder.

Deadly font

Matthew Rodriguez — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:37:28 +0000

Designer Jelte van Abbema was a winner at the Dutch Design Awards and the accompanying €10,000 Rado Prize in part due to his piece “Symbiosis,” a font created with e.coli bacteria. One could say this could be a nasty computer virus! Van Abbema created the font by stamping bacteria into paper, and then placing the [...]

Font-clone wars

Andrew Hearst — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:01:18 +0000

This one’s for the typography nerds: In a follow-up to last year’s excellent short “Font Conference,” the loopy gang at College Humor gives us “Font Fight!,” a violence-filled showdown between two typeface gangs–one led by Helvetica, the other by Helvetica’s “shameless impostor,” Arial. The ending features a surprise cameo by perhaps the most evil font [...]

Favorite Typefaces of 2008

Matthew Rodriguez — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:01:58 +0000

You may take them for granted, but a quality typeface is almost like a functional work of art – and yes, they’re still generally craftted by hand. I suppose April isn’t too late to discuss last year, so without further ado: Typographica lists their favorite typefaces of 2008. Sensationalism aside, it’s significant that the ever-increasing [...]