Tag: typography
Book Sculpture Illustrates OCD With A Derailed Typography Train
It's been so inspiring over the past several years to see how creative artists turn traditional books into works of art. Sometimes they use thousands of books to make gigantic sculptures, and sometimes it's more subtle. This particular book sculpture caught my eye because of the typography and detai ...
Over: The Photo Editing App That Adds Typography To Your Photos
As you know, we write about a lot of apps here on Bit Rebels. I have to admit, most of the time when I see one that I think might be cool, I install it only to uninstall it fifteen minutes later when I realize it's not all that impressive after all. My favorite apps are the super simple ones that ar ...
A New Steampunk Font & Texture
I thought I would share this new steampunk font and texture resource that I discovered while researching another project from the type foundry, Fontcraft the Scriptorium. I have been purchasing their typography for awhile now to use in unique projects from the site of Dave Nalle who is a game design ...
Ampersand Food Groups: Foodie Fun With Typography
Even though I'm not a designer, I love typography. There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, but when you start exploring all the creative typography created by artists everywhere, you realize that 26 letters is all it takes for unlimited, endless typography options.
Typography isn't lim ...
12 Inspiring Posters That Form A Message To The Next Generation
All of us are so full of advice, and we usually give it out when we probably shouldn't, right? One of my favorite songs from 2011 is by Sara Bareilles, and it's called "King of Anything." She says she wrote that song to everyone who has ever given her advice (usually bad advice), when she didn't ask ...
Ice Typography: A Unique Collection Of Ice Sculptures
Whoa! I've seen a lot of creative typography installations over the past few years, but I've never seen anything like this before. These words created out of ice are really a cross between ice typography and ice sculptures. I have a feeling this is one of those artful creations where the pictures do ...
Top 5 Web Design Trends For 2012
As 2011 comes to a close, I decided to examine what we have to look forward to in Web Design for 2012. But first, what makes me so sure that I have the ability to see into the future? Well, let's have a look at my predictions for 2011.
I predicted that large headers would be the rage, minimalist ...
Typographic Calendar Created With 2,012 Recycled Keyboard Keys
I betcha this is the geekiest thing you'll read all day. I had to read about it a few different times just to wrap my brain around the complexity of it all. This is a typographic wall calendar created with 2,012 (since it's a 2012 calendar) recycled computer keyboard keys. Each one of the keys is ve ...
The Fascinating Font Created From Leg Hair
Here's a scenario for you... Let's say you are attending an art university and the instructor of your design class gives everyone an assignment to create a brand new font that has never been seen before, without the use of a computer. What would you do? Computers and fonts go together like peanut bu ...
Alphabet Letters Created From Everyday Objects & Negative Space
I'll admit; I'm not normally a huge fan of negative space art. I can appreciate it from a design perspective since it adds a whole level of complexity to the design itself, but quite honestly, it makes my brain hurt. The closest way I can describe it to you is that if you look at the spinning lady i ...
Design Inspiration: Alphabet Letters As Whimsical 3D Scenes
Even though I'm not a designer, I'm still drawn to different kinds of typography. Seeing the way artists and designers create different letters and fonts is always inspiring to me. I've noticed that over the past few years, there has really been a division in what people consider typography to be. S ...
Living Typography: Simple Birdhouses Designed For Sparrows
I've gone through a lot of changes in my in the past few years, and if you've also felt yourself grow and stretch, you've probably noticed a longing to be closer to nature. It's an interesting thing when that happens, but one clue that we are developing as a person and changing is that we have a cra ...
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Type: 6 Minute Guide To The Pro Lingo [Video]
There you are, doing your best to impress people with your designs. You tinker, go over your stuff meticulously and almost border on the extreme before you'll let anyone even have a peek at them. That could really be a description of me, and a ton of other designers in the world. I check pretty much ...
Liquid Fonts: An Awesome Type Experiment
I am used to checking out at least a dozen new fonts each day. Why? Well, because I am a designer, and I need some inspiration sometimes. I am sure all you designers out there know what I am talking about. Looking at new fonts is one of the best ways to really get a boring uninspired day going. If y ...
The Elastic Alphabet: Rubber Band Typography
It's easy to see why so many people like typography in all its shapes and forms. There is a correct definition for typography that is quite specific, but there seems to be a multitude of opinions about that. Typography to many people is just text plotted out in various forms, shapes and constellatio ...