Typography is good for more than just making words. Type can become art. Shadows shift and dimension emerges by changing typefaces, their colors and their sizes. Using lighter and smaller text can create softness. Here are two examples of “type as art” that I find inspiring and that make me want to create art from type.
Images courtesy of pixelelement.com.
Kids and parents often resort to playing the Alphabet Game to avoid complete boredom during long automobile trips. Photographer Eric Tabuchi has taken the idea a couple steps further in his cool, limited edition artist’s book, Alphabet Truck.
Tabuchi has photographed trailer trucks on empty highways, each bearing one letter of the alphabet. His set of 26 trucks is perfectly uniform in scale and composition and lighting. Uncanny. The project also serves as a sort of visual typology of truck typography.
(via Lensculture & Swissmiss)
Florent restaurant closed in June. It’s in New York, so you might wonder why I care. Well, I happen to love Tibor Kalman’s work, and he designed the restaurant’s business cards and advertisements for many years.
I especially love the piece in which the diners are represented in type alone, she with her pumps and a napkin in her lap, giggling flirtatiously; he with his napkin resting on his loafers, quietly enjoying a sip of wine in mirth.
Check out both Kalman’s cheeky work and the restaurant, which was in its own way an institution, here:
A Gallery of Tibor Kalman's work for Florent
Four months of blogging about the Ampersand. As John Gruber writes, “now this is a focused weblog.”
Blake Whitman from online video host Vimeo recently had a seemingly unsolicited “fix” to their logo submitted to him:
Ha. How many times have you wanted to fix other people’s logos?
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