From an alligator made of aaa's to a zebra made of zzz's, the eponymous heroes of the new book Alphabeasties are ingeniously built out of multiple typefaces.
Behold Werner Design Werks' nifty recent release: Alphabeasties: and other Amazing Types, a children's book featuring animals crafted out of typefaces: an alligator set in Volta EF, a dachshund made out of "d"s set in Bauhaus, and so on.
Grain edit (whose post tipped us off) appropriately notes resonances with Bruno Munari's Alfabetiere.
You can buy Alphabeasties at Red Balloon Bookshop.
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Paul — Jan 8, 2010
The Store at 826 Valencia is San Francisco's only independent pirate supply store. All proceeds from the store go toward the 826 Valencia Writing Center.
I love 826 Valencia. Here are a few samples from their gallery of signs, which marketing idea I also love. Good copy, clean typography. Hallelujah.
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Paul — Nov 30, 2009
We devote a fair amount of energy here on BlogLESS to pointing out the ethical missteps of the advertising profession. It's reasonable for you to want us to occasionally point out when someone does something right too.
Check out these spectacular new spreads from a recent campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand for Sanyo.
They're advertising in these for a digital camcorder that can take video underwater. What I like so much about these in particular (aside from the fact that they're well laid out and the typography is impressive) is that they've got this great message, which I take to be as follows.
Isn't everything just weird? Why don't you take a minute and appreciate that?
I love it. It's not some vague promise or total non-sequitir. It's a totally open question that's not deeply laden with some sort or other of bullsh*t.
Thanks to Fubiz for the heads-up.
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Paul — Oct 9, 2009
Four Design Links is your weekly dose of the latest design news and research.
1. iStockphoto to Sell Logos
Big news this week from iStockphoto: the site plans to offer logos for sale in the near future. Commenters on their forum seem to favor the deal, while designers are (not surprisingly) much less enthused.
To their credit, iStockphoto is trying something different with the logos they plan to sell. Logos will be unique items, only sold once apiece. In addition, they will cost much more than stock photos. Whereas a decent sized image might run $7-$10, a logo could run $100-$750.
But tell me, who is going to buy these things and who is going to supply them? Is there really such a thing as a stock logo? I think we know the answer...
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Nick — Sep 24, 2009
It's Thursday and that means four more Design Links are coming your way. It's our way of sharing the sites we've been reading this week, keeping you up to date on the latest design research, trends, and stories.
1. Far Foods
I caught James Reynolds's Far Foods, an updated design for produce packaging, on Swissmiss. I think the boarding-pass styling might be too clever visually, but I very much like the idea of prominently displaying point-of-origin, distance traveled, and resulting CO2.
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Nick — Aug 20, 2009
Designer Able Parris impressed us with some recent sketches for documentary film posters.
These remind me of this brilliant poster for Stanley Kubrick's 2001.
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Paul — Jul 1, 2009
