beautiful typography August round up

I have come across some typography this hot summer month worth sharing.

I hope you enjoy!
You can follow my typography board on Pinterest here.

Shalinder Matharu
 

Demure typography watercolor

Born & Raised Album Cover for John Mayer by David Smith

Typography everywhere
 

Eat & Meet Logo

beautiful typography APRIL round up

I have come across some typography worth sharing including some hand-painted and hand-drawn type. The hand-made type always catches my eye. It just has so much personality.

I hope you enjoy!
You can follow my typography board on Pinterest here.

 

 Ice Cream Social logo

The Highlands

Dana Tanamachi's the chalk art. You must check out her site.

She has some AMAZING work.

Josh Holinaty

 Miami Beach’s Art Deco Historic District

 Steady as She Goes 3D Printing

kerning, the game

Are you up to the challenge? Are you design nerd enough to think this is fun? If you are like me and answered yes to both questions then you are in the right place.

"Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer's solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck!"

Now get to Kerning! 

What was your score? :)

The Ultimate Hitchcock Cookbook (video)

Enjoy this graduation project of three students from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover. This beautifully animated book contains recipes for Alfred Hitchcock’s classics. "It’s made for Hitchcock enthusiasts and every other couch potato out there." Lovely work guys!!


Hitch from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.

Concept: Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco, Torsten Strer
Layout  / Animation: Pascal Monaco, Felix Meyer
Sound Design: Torsten Strer
Sound Technician: Dirk Austen / Paul Productions
Voice: Peter Bennett 

feed your paper crave

I stumbled upon a brilliant site called papercrave.com and I cannot go a day without scrolling through it's pages of beautiful post. There is enough design, illustration, typography, and print inspiration in this one site to last years!

In the words of the TV show host of Reading Rainbow 

"Don't take my word for it."

Follow me to papercrave.com

the cool hunter

While searching for the cool I found the hunter. "The Cool Hunter is not a trend-spotter, trend-watcher or trend predictor. We select and celebrate what is beautiful and enduring from all that is sought-after in architecture, design, gadgets, lifestyle, urban living, fashion, travel and pop culture." It also is a cool site. There are colors for your eyes to play with all day. It is a cool color filled imagination playground. Let's play!

Follow me to check it out for yourself.

30 new free typefaces! sweet! (reblog)

Smashing Magazine always post the best new free typefaces. I get excited with every new typeface and dance around, passing out smiles to all that see me. They do all the work and I gain the benefits with beautiful well designed typefaces. Enjoy!
30 New Free High-Quality Fonts

an ampersand a day...

Ok, I LOVE ampersands so when I found out I could enjoy a new one everyday I clicked as fast as my finger could move. Below are a few of my faves and a link to all 365 of them.

Follow me for all 365 ampersands at ampersandampersand.tumblr.com

just add water

Typography in Water by YouWorkForThem

"We at YouWorkForThem decided it was time to take a break for a few days on posting new fonts and have fun with them for once. We choose five of our most popular fonts and decided to see how they worked when added to water. The final result was quite interesting to say the least. We have also provided iPhone4 and iPad wallpapers that you can use to spice up your device's appearance."

To view more follow me to Behance

the dying art of hand-painted billboards

Up There is a wonderful short documentary on hand-painted billboards and wall paintings. The film tells the stories of the New York painters who are struggling to keep this method alive. This film will simply pull your inner artist out and make you want to fight the good fight along with these passionate painters. The finished artwork from these guys is just unreal.


Up There

Watch the full 12 minute documentary here and spread the word.
uptherefilm.com

part 2, design nerd iPhone apps

I want to start off by asking, don't you wish you could bookmark apps right in the app store on your phone? There are apps that can do that for you but that should just be a feature right in the regular app store. Apple, you should be on top of this stuff and not out making pads.

Anyhoo, to all of my iPhone loving designers out there this is for you. I found more great apps that I wanted to share.

I like to start out with FREE things first. A good free app makes the day better.

"Action Method is an intuitive approach to productivity, designed to help creative thinkers push their ideas into action. Based on the power of capturing and managing "Action Steps" (tasks you need to complete), Action Method ensures nothing falls through the cracks, and ideas are accomplished."

Try it out, it's FREE!

MAKE A STATEMENT...

...with 20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings.
Enjoy your new toys.

Whooo, perrty. ;)

the alpha table

This has to be the most beautiful table I have ever seen. If only I had $500 bucks (on sale from $900) to give Crate & Barrel. But, a girl can dream can't she?

the key is in the numbers (typeface)

A lot of designers look for inspiration for design projects and just want a load of creative work in one spot. This is a series of just that. I have gathered the best of the best and posted it here. There are tons of blogs out there with the best 10, 30, 70, or 100 or more of well designed projects. The key is to follow search results that start with numb3rs.

Don't hate the repeats.

I love a sentence that has the words "free" and "typeface" in it. Here are some resouces filled with free well designed typefaces.

17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts 

hvdfonts.com

26 Must-Have Free Fonts

myfonts.com

ripetype.com

6 incredible logo designs

They all make my heart sing. Enjoy.
Sushi by Petya Savova

some things just make sense

Vitamin Boxes


Concept by Polish designer Viktoriya Gadomska.

yummy tees

how awesome are wax seals?

Meaghan Thomas

VERY.
I have get me one of these.

Free + Font = Freakin' Awesome

Who loves free typefaces?
I DO!
Who loves a lot well designed free typefaces in one place?
ME! ME! ME!
Follow me to your dream come true: 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts
::deep breath:: Ah, don't you love the smell of free?

design nerd iPhone apps

With the big hoopla over the iPhone and how great it is I feel for the apple "cool." I recently bought a iPhone for myself only to be disappointed and in-like with it. It is so easy to use and navigate but without a jailbreak there are a bunch of very simple things that you cannot do.

iPhone shortcoming's:

• Forwarding a txt msg
  
• Sending multimedia messages
  
• Video recording
  
• Bluetooth data transfer
  

There are more but you get the idea. You would think AT&T would tell you this when selling you the phone, no, they do not. I took my phone to the AT&T store and got my $200 back and the same day (I am not surprised with my luck) I found out about iPhone OS 3.0 coming in the summer of 09. I was pissed! I played with that phone fell in-like (almost love) with it and not being able to do what I wanted took it back and then I find this out. You would not believe the number of AT&T tech support, customer service reps, and sales people I talked to and not one, NOT ONE was aware nor did they bring up OS 3.0 coming in the summer. How sad is that?

I can honestly tell you I have never had a good experience with AT&T and this is one experience to add to the list. I will go and buy the iPhone when the new OS comes out but come on AT&T. Train your people. They should have knowledge of not only the products but how to do basic troubleshooting on all phones. At first I was mad at apple but by the end of it all my anger shifted right back to AT&T, as usual.

With that all out of me system, :) I want to get into designer friendly iPhone apps and wallpapers.
First up, wallpapers: