Day 358 - Typography: Learning to read with friendly elephant font

Mirko Humbert, a swiss designer, created  a new font. Not just a font, but a font in which a cute elephant figures. He used this font to teach his son how to read. 

Below you see the illustrations of A, B and C.

Day 356 - Merry Christmas!

Tomorrow it's Christmas. Wish you and your families and friends a very merry Xmas!

Day 351 - Free font for graphic designers: LOT

LOT is a free font that can be downloaded on Fontfabric.

It can be uses in any type of design, but personally I think it looks the best on large prints, such as on posters and t-shirts.

Give it a try and create your design with LOT!

Day 326 - Shaping time with the cube calendar

Philip Stroomberg created a calendar. Not an ordinary calendar that lets you turn pages. This calendar is an object, a massive block that asks to be touched, to be picked up and to be teared in pieces.

Stroomberg calls it 'The Cube Calendar'. A calendar that has the shape of a cube and consist of tear-off cards. Not a messy one, but a real design calendar.

Still looking for a 'Sinterklaas' or Christmas present? This is the perfect one!
For sale at www.thecubecalendar.com.

And no, I do not know them and have no interest in making you buy one. I just think that this is a great calendar and wish you luck in shaping your 2014.

Day 302 - Free display font for graphic designers

How about this free display font? I personally love it!

It's called ACCENT and it is designed by Nelson Balaban.
You can download via his page on behance.

Day 294 - Free font for personal use: Drops of Jupiter

Today a link to a very nice handwritten font that carries the curious name:
Drops of Jupiter.

The font is designed by Kimberly Geswein, and it can be download for free at fontspace.

Enjoy!

Day 287 - Typography and kerning: the roof of the new bus station in Amsterdam

The Central Station in Amsterdam is under construction.

One of the largest projects is building of a new roof on the bus station that is situated the train station. The roof is made of glass and it is decorated with the word 'AMSTERDAM'. The letters are mad of colored glass (orange and red).

Yesterday I read an article about this roof on Typographica. The article describes a few worrisome facts, such as the fact that the spacing between the first A and M is 5 windows, whereas the space between the final A and M is only 4 windows...

Want tk know more about it? Read the article here or take the train or bus to Amsterdam to see it with your own eyes.

Anyway, I like this roof and do not mind abut the kerning...

Day 284 - Graphic design: street art, Eye, Amsterdam

Yesterday, I was in Amsterdam. I started my visit at the Eye Film Museum. One of my favorite places in Amsterdam.

The sky was cloudy, it rained now and then. Nevertheless, I had the opportunity to take a lot of of photo's. When I walked around the building, I saw this piece of  'street art'.

Someone wrote 'ik herhaal ik herhaal ik herhaal...' with chalk on the pavement. 'Ik herhaal' means 'I repeat'. It was repeated at least thirty times....

Street art - photo by 2VORM, all rigths reserved

Day 281 - Handmade typography: font made from.... flowers!

Yesterday, I told you about design studio Handmadefont. They develop new fonts by looking around them and taking everyday objects as inspiration.

This fancy font is called 'Yellow flowers' font. It refers to the hippie's time. I like it a lot, it makes me happy.

If it makes you too happy, you can buy it at the website from Handmadefont.

Day 280 - Graphic design & typography: funny font, made from... eggs!

Handmadefont, an Estonian design studio, is specialized in developing unique fonts. the inspiration comes from everyday objects. Like e.g. eggs!

Here's an overview of the ingrdients of this font:
1000 eggs
10 pans
5 burned fingers
3 hours
1 bottle of oil

And here's the result: Egg font, for sale at www.handmadefont.com/product/eggs-font

Day 277 - Free script font for graphic designers: Braxton

On the website of Fontfabric type foundry I found this new font: Braxton.

Braxton is a brush script font. Is is designed by Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky, from Russia.
You can download for free.

Enjoy!

Souce: www.fontfabric.com

Day 272 - Graphic design: Dislectika, or how it feels to be dyslectic...

Wondering how it feels to be dyslectic?

Navid Nuur, a Dutch artist who was born in Iran, had developed a typeface that let's you experience dyslexia. In his for, that is called Dislectika, lines start to move, forms are transforming and the letters blend together and create new words.

Visit hie website and discover how it feels to be dyslectic:
www. dislectika.nl

Dislectika by Navid Nuur

Source: www. dislectika.nl

Day 269 - Graphic design in New York City: 'what's up?'

In New York City I spend a whole lot of time looking around me,
in the streets, the subway, billboards, shopping windows, shops, etc.

Why? Simply to get inspired and to see what kind of 'language' graphic designers use in the USA.

The photo below is taken in OPening Ceremony, a wonderful store in Soho.

Sign - phot by 2VORM, all rights reserved

Day 251 - Graphic design: These beautiful illustrations help you lear Chinese

Learning Chinese is not easy...

ShaoLan Hsueh invented a whole new way to learn Chinese characters.
She transformed characters into he most creative an beautiful illustrations.
These illustrations help to remember and distinguish the characters.
She called it 'Chineasy'.

On her website she presents each day a new character.
To be able to accomplish this project, she launched a Kickstarter Campaign.

Below you can see some of her illustrations.

Day 243 - One of my favorite free fonts: dingbats and more for graphic designers

Dingbats are great, e.g. for displays, brochures, banners, chalkboards, etc.

How about these? I like and use them a lot.

Want to use them too? Then visit Ella Claire's blog!

Day 241 - Free font for graphic designers, great for logo's and displays

Today I started to work on a new logo design.

I made sketches, experimented with different colors and searched for a nice typeface.
On the internet I found the font you see below. Not what I needed right now, but still very nice. So I decided to download it. For free, for personal and commercial use (www.dafont.com).

Source

Day 207 - Free font for graphic designers: Neon font 'Kabel'

I have been searching for a light or neon font.

On the website of FontFabric I found this amazing font.
It is called Kabel, and it is designed by Mathias Nösel. 

You can see more of his work on:

www.behance.net/mnoesel

www.twitter.com/mnoesel

Day 190 - Another summer day: How about some watermelon inspiration?

And again it's a warm summer day.

I still have a lot of work to do.
When I take a break, I love to eat fresh water melon.

Day 183 - Free font for graphic designers: Prime, a free techy font

As I told you befote, Fontfabric type foundry offers several free fonts on their website.

One of them is this techy font, designed by Max Pirsky:

"Prime is a simple typeface with a techy feel and a strict, geometric origin. I wanted to create something that offers great readability in various sizes yet still offers enough subtle differences to stand out. Basic and somewhat neutral, it can be used in a variety of ways from distinct titles to body text.  – Max Pirsky

Day 170 - Typography: Photograghical alphabet Type the Sky

It's not new, it was designed in 2007, but as I like it vey much I like to present you
Type the Sky

Type the Sky is a photographical alphabet, created by Lisa Rienerrmann.
It consist of sky 'snippets that are framed by houses.

Want to see more of her work? Visit her website!