A fascinating trawl through the typography and design of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner by Dave Addey.
READ ON: Blade Runner (Typeset In the Future)
And if that appealed to you, he does a similar number on Ridley Scott’s Alien.
Tag Archives: typography
Pedalphabet
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@drilography
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Tweets from the novelty twitter account @dril typographically enshrined by Amelia Hamrick.
Eclectic typography from the storefronts and public buildings of Broadway which runs the length of Manhattan, collected by Hopes and Fears’ Gabriella Garcia with help of typography expert Ksenya Samarskaya.
MORE: 13 miles of typography on Broadway, from A to Z (hopesandfears)
The American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Ultimate Typography Quiz. To wit:
Do you grit your teeth if someone says “font” when he or she really means “typeface?” Does bad kerning just about ruin your day? Do you practically weep when a designer looks baffled at your ever-so-subtle suggestions to use proper ligatures?
Take it here.
Random Notes
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Typograffit – a website that turns plain text into ransom-note style typographic photomontages.
Because you need a thing like that.
Drawing Sh*t
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Graphic designer and typographer Sarah Lawrence’s scatalogical project for 2015. To wit, drawing the word ‘shit’ in a new and interesting way every day.
Hey, it’s a gig.
MORE: Drawing Shit Every Day
Annie Atkins (top) and James Kelleher (above)
Do you care for lettering, point sizes, kerning and whatnot?
Fancy sitting in on a Typography Ireland seminar led by Annie Atkins and James Kelleher?
Oh go on then.
Telegrams, love letters, antique cigarette packaging… Annie Atkins specialises in the graphic design for film. Annie will use the wonderfully graphic-packed Grand Budapest Hotel as a case study for this 45-min presentation.
James Kelleher has worked on Hot Press, Totally Dublin, The Gloss, Vision, a book or two, a series of iBooks textbooks and The Lonely Beast apps for kids. James will be trying to convince the audience that the making of magazines is a noble pursuit.
Typography ireland with Annie Atkins and James Kelleher on March 27th in DIT Grangegorman from 3.30 to 5.30.
Completely FREE.