Archive for the ‘Fonts’ Category
The Apostrophe is dead. Long live the Apostrophe.
Waterstones has lost something. The once definitive bookshop is moving ahead without its apostrophe (and yes, I did have to think twice about whether to use one there) and this has set up a media storm of Biblical proportions. What does this mean for a brand name?
In: Brand communications, Corporate Identity, Fonts, Naming, Retail, Viewpoints · Tags: Apostrophe, Books, Copywriting, Waterstones
Friday Favourites
Louis Vuitton animals, vintage circus posters, a painting typewriter and more on our Friday Favourites
In: Art, Brand communications, Fashion, Fonts, Graphic design, Ooh that's nice, Product design, Retail, Structural design · Tags: 100 year celebration, Centenary, Friday Favourites, Illustration, Louis Vuitton, Posters, Sculpture
Friday Favourites
Crazy birdhouses, book swaps, delicious typography and rubbish posters – some Favourites found this week.
In: Advertising, Art, Brand communications, Brand Experience, Fonts, Graphic design, Ooh that's nice, Product design, Structural design, Sustainability · Tags: Bird houses, Books, Friday Favourites, Goodwood Festival, Retro, Supermarket, Tesco, The Guardian, Typography, Vintage
NASA brand guidelines 1978
Rather fittingly, on the week of the last Shuttle Atlantis mission I came across the NASA guideline documents on the Aiga archives.
In: Brand communications, Corporate Identity, Fonts, Graphic design, Ooh that's nice · Tags: Brand guidelines
Favourites found this week
It’s Friday, so time for just a few of our favourite things that we’ve stumbled across this week in the world of art, design and branding.
In: Art, Fashion, Film & Animation, Fonts, Food and Drink, Ooh that's nice, Product design, Structural design · Tags: drawing, Food, Friday Favourites, Sewing, Typography
Alex Merto's saucy font
Alex Merto’s Effing typeface is ‘an ode to the letter F’, made up of big bouncy letters, each one with a saucy or suggestive nature. Click here to see them all – except, he’s missing the L, M and K, presumably because nobody could think of anything racy enough related to those letters (any suggestions, [...]
