typography Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/typography/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:25:37 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 (Do)lorem Ipsum https://ounodesign.com/2013/10/30/do-lorem-ipsum-dummy-text/ https://ounodesign.com/2013/10/30/do-lorem-ipsum-dummy-text/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:25:37 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=16358
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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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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Summer yard sale, Strathcona, Vancouver. Not sure what caused me to fail to buy this. As art.

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In the “on the fridge” category.

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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.

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A man with a dry sense of humour and great stationery. Via swissmiss and thanks to blprnt for finding it.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/06/please-write-back-saying-how-much-money-you-would-like-love-mick-jagger/feed/ 5 Okay, look, iTunes and Stella Artois, you can’t just rip off the CBC logo. https://ounodesign.com/2009/09/30/itunes-and-stella-artois-rip-off-the-cbc-logo/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/09/30/itunes-and-stella-artois-rip-off-the-cbc-logo/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:17:53 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=6362


Dear Stella Artois and iTunes,
There are 30-plus million of us Canadians. Did you think there was a chance that none of us would notice your commercial appropriation of one of our most popular non-commercial national symbols?

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The Russian Hall, formerly the Russian People’s Home, consistently produces typography so clear, so straightforward, so capitalized it is a manifesto in itself, design or political. This what happens when you try to produce design degree zero: the more you eschew style, the more you achieve it.

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