Vittorio De Sica era molto grotesk, Gino Cervi più lineare, Alida Valli parecchio graziata, Amedeo Nazzari un po’ inglese. Sulle locandine c’erano i loro nomi, chi c’era dietro?

Perché il Playbill ha le grazie così esagerate? Come si facevano i poster prima del computer? Ma, soprattutto, non posso usare mela Z???

Per sapere tutto questo e altro ancora sui caratteri in legno…
…l’Officina Tipografica Novepunti è lieta di presentare

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OGNI LEGNO HA IL SUO TARLO
Una lezione informale, a ritmo di musica, sui caratteri in legno italiani
Sabato 26 marzo 2011 ore 15:00
Presso l’Officina Tipografica Nove Punti
Via Giusti 4, Cesano Boscone (MI)
Per motivi di spazio, prenotarsi a
officina@novepunti.org

Ingresso libero con tessera associativa (10 euro)

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Official Classics spawned from the minds of two young enthusiastic
graphic designers Mark Zador and Attila Horvath. We both are unlimited
lovers of typography and geometry, forms and colours, computers and game
consoles, graffiti and stickers, magazines and blogs, work and rest, music
and silence, winters and summers the list goes on……

web site

krop.com Via

WWF did a tool for save psd file whit out the possibility of printing.

“The WWF format is a PDF that cannot be printed out. It’s a simple way to avoid unnecessary printing. So here’s your chance to save trees and help the environment. Decide for yourself which documents don’t need printing out – then simply save them as WWF.”

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FOTB 2010 Titles from Süperfad on Vimeo.

This year’s titles for FOTB were created by Nando Costa through the use of macro motion pictures and materials with magnetic properties.

Il direttore creativo di Superfad, Nando Costa, ha realizzato i titoli di apertura per il festival Flash on the Beach. Il video anima fotografie macro realizzate andando a stuzzicare le proprietà magnetiche dei metalli.

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Music Philosophy is a weekly graphic/typographic interpretation of philosophical song quotes.

Some wor from Miko (music philosophy), a designer realy like music and design.

Flickr

Buro Destruct founded 1994 in Bern Switzerland counts the four members
Lopetz, Heiwid, MBrunner and H1reber.
Small City – Big Design is their motto while working for small, local
and international major companies at the same time.

Cool hand draw type and illustration by Christian San Jose

My friend Nazzareno develop the old and new banner for this web site, it’s intresting becouse they change from a video banner to another have the possybility of interaction.

Then now the customer can play and they going to see them job on the site.

Old header:

New header:

Editor:

So you need a typeface is an alternative way on how to choose fonts (or just be inspired) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook. The list is (very loosely) based on the top 50 of the “Die 100 besten schriften”.

For exemple:

Idea buy Julian Hansen

Ikea, il mobilificio svedese che ha applicato la teoria del bauhaus al propio brand, portando design in casa di tutti, presenta una serie di publicità in una filosofia di marketing innovativo.

Ikea celebra i  30 anni della libreria Billy con la Facebook App Billygram.

Con Billygram gli utenti possono inviare sulle bacheche degli amici messaggi animati composti da librerie riempite in modo da comporre le lettere del testo!

Trovato qui

Cliccando sul banner di Ikea viverrà chiesto di caricare un mp3 dal vostro hard disk.

Inseritelo e lo vedrete suonato dalla libreria…

mobilificio svedese adatta i banner alla filosofia dei propri prodotti.

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FontShop.com is more than a site that sells fonts — we want to help you do great work too. That’s why we created our new Education page. Enhance your design skills, whether you’re a student in Type 101 or a seasoned professional.

The Education page premieres with four docs filled with typography tips and tutorials from our team of experts. The PDFs are formatted for easy downloading and printing, perfect for the classroom or studio.

And more…

Some cool type and graphics from Porno graphics

Cool type work did by Stay Nice

Link: web site & myspace

Some nice font and drowing type from Philippe Nicolas.

Launch web site or flickr