"Cure for the Common Font"

A web designer's introduction to typeface selection - Frank Chimero, Stephen Cole, Jason Santa Maria & Tiffany Wardle talk about making better decisions about type. If you're like me and can listen to talk radio & books on tape while working, put on your headphones and listen to this at work - click below to view slides & listen.

Open publication - Free publishing - More fonts

you can also listen to the full audio & view slides at typographica.org - via imprint

put those old crayons & pencils to good use

crayon monogrammed wall art! by two peas in a bucket and by dollar store craft via Pinterest

website of the day: marie catribs

creepy lady. yummy food. pretty site (nice little javascript slider): www.mariecatribs.com
PS: the font/type for the logo? spit fest. me no likey.

uh... i lied. THIS is the website of the day.

i double heart you, Fixel people. check them out >>

pretty

love you,

Else

(http://galp.in)

website of the day

whitespace, javascript and good typography. I'm sold. jstraining.de

comic sans criminal

unlike your hateful friend Else, this site schools you on comic sans (spit) in a much more polite & well designed manner: comicsanscriminal (go there now or I will kick you)

and while I'm ranting...

i might as well add that Papyrus should also die a slow and painful death and then be fed to hungry pigs in Italy. This is not ancient Egypt and using this gross font will not make your business, ministry or church logo look any more spiritual so cut it out. Ugh. Spit, spit.

die comic sans, die!!

unless you are my 65 year old mother from Brazil putting church flyers together for a bake sale, you really don't have any decent excuse for using Comic Sans (spit). And even if you ARE my mother, you're going to use it only once because Else Bear will sit your butt down and school you on proper font usage.

Funny enough, imagine if these famous logos were redone w/ Comic Sans. Lord, help us.






via Twitter

Peter Vogel

A Portland artist + thing maker, Peter is a former creative director with a passion for typography and now furniture design. For a reasonable fee, he'll create (new) vintage signs or reproduce any old ones you might have your eye on. Else hearts Peter. Visit the Nutmegger Workshop >>

sent to me by my piece of chocolate cake of a husband, Ren Awesome Blake.

doyald young

Very sad to learn this morning that logotype designer Doyald Young has passed. He was 84. An advocate for craftsmanship and precision in typography, his work is beyond brilliant.

lynda.com has a couple of Doyald videos you must check out.
(thank you for sharing, Ralston, via "Nanners")

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fontifier

thinking about developing some of my scribbles into my own font but I don't have time (or money) to deal with all the font designing software out there. Fontifier to the rescue! Create & name your own font for just $9 using your own handwriting - wouldn't it be awesome to take your kid's handwriting and turn it into a font? and for 9 buckaroos? Double awesome.

www.fontifier.com

veer goodness

while looking for an utilitarian sans serif font yesterday, my sweet friend turtle shared this one with me: filmotype (above) by Veer. Else Boo had not visited Veer in a while so I had a good time swimming in that ocean of pretty stuff.

more chalk ♥

I despise caramel (i'm going somewhere with this). And do you know why? Because I have the gift of "obsession until sick", is what my mother calls it. When Else Cake was 8ish, she spent an entire allowance on a giant bag of hard caramels, her favorite. I knew if I went home my mom was going to make me share them with my mean, mean brothers so instead, I climbed up my neighbor's tree and ate the entire bag. I got sick. The end.

Chalk lettering & drawing is becoming my caramels. I'm obsessing. I'm pretty sure I'll be sick of it before long and will feel ill at the sight of it. But for now? I'm up in the tree feeling nothing but love for it.

xoxo,

Else Pooh

PS: Oh, geez. By the way, this is Dana Tanamachi. She's a Brooklyn based letterer & graphic designer. I ♥ u, Dana.

post typography

First you gotta own the rules, then you can break them. I suppose this is an example of when breaking them works.

www.posttypography.com

jordan gray

more pieces by jordan gray

homegrown creative ♥

again, more work by some kansas city creatives. i love jordan's work & realized I never blogged about it so I'll be posting more homegrown love by local folks. It may not all be brand new to us in KC but it's work worth talking about for all the other folks out there.
julian restaurants by jordan gray

jeff bridges ♥

sent to me by my creative half, rene blake, take a peak at jeff bridges' website.
if you loved him for his acting before, you'll love him even more now for all the other creative things the man can do. jeff bridges abides.

say it with cups

i keep checking around to see if someone is finally making these but nada. boo-hoo.
by iamdesign via thedieline

custom stamps

while window shopping at paper source this morning, i found out they offer cool custom stamps for folks like me. duh. i'm behind the times. $30ish will get you one. go get it here.