It’s a committee thing

Well, I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from posting on this blog, but what better way to come back than with another witty holiday skewering of life as an advertiser by the folks over at World Wide Wadio. Last year I enjoyed their “Make the Logo Bigger” video. This year, they have a more [...]

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Superbowl recap and Helvetica in the funnies

 
Miller offers an excellent recap of the Superbowl commercials, a conversation I can imagine went on in very similar fashion in Monday-morning back rooms all over the country. I only wonder why he didn’t poke fun at the deliberately offensive Panda and Ramesh ads, which left me staring blankly at the [...]

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Design Police on the job

One of the frustrating things about being a trained graphic designer is that the eye is forever opened to all the really bad design out there. All the rules that are beaten into college design students are broken on a regular basis by “hobby designers” or people who just don’t know any better, or worse, [...]

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Type as structure

Some students at the Cleveland Institute of Art used typefaces to recreate famous Cleveland landmarks. They were scored on the relevancy of the typeface chosen, retaining the character of the typeface within the image, and the accuracy of the representation. The result is a series of gorgeous renderings created entirely out of typography. This kind of [...]

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Motion type as genre

An excellent list of typography in motion as the primary graphic element in video was posted on Designer Daily recently. In reviewing the videos listed, I appreciate the focus on the dynamics of the words, the synchronization to the audio track and the willingness for the most part to let go of additional graphics.
The beauty of type [...]

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