Posts Tagged ‘typography’
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
Lorem Ipsum text by designer Steph Borel.
At a party last night someone asked what the Lorem Ipsum dummy text passage actually means, and despite studying latin for years (anything to get out of math), and despite seeing this dummy text all the time, I realized I had no idea.
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Tags: Aldus Corporation, Aldus Pagemaker, Cicero, Letraset, lipsum.com, lorem ipsum, typesetting, typography
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
That pretty much sums up much of my recent trip to India. Never ending tasty chatting.
Gajali or gajalee (also the name of a famous fish restaurant further up the Maharashtra coast in Mumbai) means “an informal gathering” in the Malvani & Konkani languages.
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Tags: fish restaurant, fishing village, Gajali, graphics, harbour, Maharashtra, napkin, typography, Vengurla
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Summer yard sale, Strathcona, Vancouver. Not sure what caused me to fail to buy this. As art.
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Tags: cd, computer, fast german hip hip, flea market, garage sale, music, typeface, typography, why didn't i buy that, yard sale
Posted in design, graphics and signage, humour, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 26th, 2010
In the “on the fridge” category.
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Tags: bird, budgie, favourite, fridge decoration, humour, lost pet, poster, rain, sign, text, typography, Vancouver
Posted in graphics and signage, on the fridge, Vancouver | No Comments »
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
This post is for Paul, who recently pointed out that the “ouno” logo above is an ambigram, and who suggested looking at the work of Scott Kim who made the two animated ambigrams above and below. I did know that “ouno” was the same right-side up as upside down—it was partly chosen for that—but I didn’t know there was a name for this phenomenon.
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Tags: ambigram, ambigrammatic, calligraphy, Douglas R. Hofstadter, font, geometry, John Maeda, language, lettering, math, mathematics, nerd, Scott Kim, typography, visual wordplay
Posted in art, design, graphics and signage | 5 Comments »
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
A man with a dry sense of humour and great stationery. Via swissmiss and thanks to blprnt for finding it.
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Tags: 1969, Andy Warhol, art, cover art, design, font, letter, Letterhead, Mick Jagger, music, rock and roll, Rolling Stones, stationery, typography
Posted in design | 5 Comments »