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sharing a zip code

an amusing typographical wedding invite, as pepijn (who sent me it) put it: charming… no idea who made it, if you do let me know…

m / 22-09-2010 13:40 - tags: ,  

do people call you boring from time to time?

or do you find it diffcult to choose an appropriate font? this might help, although if you need a chart like this to choose a font, i would suggest going to study design & typography first…

m / 20-09-2010 11:47 - tags: ,  

think blue

volkswagen has very smartly adopted the colour blue, not green, for their own ‘green’ campaign and this little animation film attempts to get the point across using just symbols, no words…

m / 18-09-2010 14:36 - tags: , ,  

follow the stars

like pretty much all other museums in amsterdam, the maritime museum is currently closed for extensive renovation, i just saw an artists impression of a rather striking feature which will be literally above the new courtyard: an enormous steel construction based on the old compass rose, let’s hope it looks as good as i’m imagining it will…

m / 16-09-2010 14:07 - tags: , ,  

mandagrams

UK designers ‘johnson banks’ have been working on merging roman and non-roman typography for a while (most notably their ‘phonetikana’ project from several years back) this time they have turned their attention to mandarin chinese

m / 14-09-2010 09:44 - tags: , ,