If you’re like me, you get to the cinema early so you don’t miss the opening credits. The title sequence for Catch Me If You Can, in particular, is one of my favourites, and here are a few others worthy of a mention, plus an insightful interview with Saul Bass — king of titles.
Inspiring typographical Flickr collections, for designers and type nuts. The following groups contain more than 50,000 images showcasing typography. Just about enough to quench your type desires.
The alphabet in light writing, found on Nir Tober’s Flickr page. If light writing is your thing, check out this previous post of mine, with some light writing YouTube videos.
In this post I showcase a number of creative ways to display the English alphabet. Some fascinating works of art.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica™ typeface, Linotype™ invited designers worldwide to take part in the Helvetica NOW poster design contest.
With thousands of different typefaces on offer, it’s vital to have a select few that act as pillars in your collection. The following 13 typefaces (shown in alphabetical order) are ones you’ll find many graphic designers have used.
Here are a few select typography resources, providing you with typography tips, tutorials and advice.
A week or two ago, London-based graphic designer Ben Terrett, of Noisy Decent Graphics, asked his readers this question:
What basic typographic advice would you give a third year graphic design student?
I read the comments with great interest and here I’ve picked out a few of the most useful typography tips.
If you have an interest in poster design I’d recommend taking a tour of this collection of Swiss poster designs. The one above was designed by Ralph Schraivogel, Zürich, in 1994.
There are so many font sites out there that for the first time searcher it’s kind of over-whelming. You need time on your side when choosing the right fit for your design work. I think UrbanFonts.com is the first font site that I’ve taken a decent look at through my blog posts, and I’m doing so after they paid ReviewMe for my time.