The Colosseo Letterpress poster is Cameron Moll’s latest, and most ambitious, poster design:
…The artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro typefaces form the Coliseum (or Colosseum), also known as today as Colosseo (Italian) and originally known as Amphitheatrum Flavium (Latin).
Shape My Language, a beautiful typographic exhibition by Bruno Maag:
The set-up of the exhibition is surprising to say the least. Long streams of clear plastic cards hang from the ceiling, engulfing the gallery visitors in a typographic mist.
BBC documents the roots of its Global Visual Language 2.0:
About 2 years ago, after printing out the site onto what has now become jokingly known as the ‘Wall of Shame’ we decided to embark on an ambitious project, called Global Visual Language 2.0, with the aim of unifying the visual and interaction design of bbc.co.uk and the mobile website.
I highly recommend actually downloading the guide — it’s a truly remarkable study in visual design.
A play-by-play recap of last week’s fantastic Layer Tennis between Khoi Vinh and Nicholas “Feltron” Felton. I asked on Twitter, and the condensed font used throughout the match is Heroic Condensed (thanks @nickheise).
A Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.
Design Police offers a downloadable “Visual Enforcement Kit” (PDF) with labels for everything from “Bad typography” to “Sever lack of creativity.” I would pay good money to get these as stickers, and I would probably use them every day until being fined for defacing private property.
Hot Pockets Ingredients by Justin Perricone (via sujay)
The venerable typography blog, I Love Typography, has released a list of their favorite fonts for 2009. The post is designed a bit like Boston.com’s The Big Picture, with big, beautiful samples of last year’s greatest typefaces. Of note, I definitely plan on picking up a copy of Trilby soon, and shown above is HFJ’s Sentinel, probably my #1 pick for best new font in ‘09.
“You saw me, in my humble proportions, and said “No, not big enough.” Undoubtedly, a few mouse-clicks later, your most talented technician had me soaring to new cap-heights. Let me never come back down.”
