Autobahn's Evergreen Font

I can't read it, but I think Autobahn is a small graphic design company from the Netherlands. They made a font out of grass sod. If you go to the link, it shows their whole process.



They also have fonts made of striped toothpaste, ketchup, whipped cream, hair gel, and maple syrup.

Tags on a Dumpster

Even though it's a dumpster, it looks pretty good. From Flickr user KiiD G@B3.

The Stranger Music Poster

Atticus, Bunny, and I pulled a poster off a pole today on Pine. It is for a CD release for some bands for The Stranger by Chelsea Conboy:


It could be hand type, but it could be a font that was stretched in places. You decide. I did a quick scan and didn't bother to fix the details, but the color is brighter in real life.

Wordle

This site called Wordle makes word clouds based on word frequency out of any text or website you feed it. You can change the font and colors, too.

I did one of the Seattle Times home page:



And one of Obama's inaugural speech:

Font Game

I just got a 28 out of 34 on I Love Typography's "The Rather Difficult Font Game." Maybe I should study more.

Cast Metal Type

I Love Typography had a picture up of metal type from thetypejunkie on Flickr:

Axel Peemoeller's Eureka Carpark

Axel Peemoeller designed an award-winning wayfinding system for a Melbourne parking garage:


There are more cool pictures of it on his website.

Designing the News

For a final university project, Dave Bowker is redesigning the Guardian, a UK newspaper, in different visualizations to explore how information can be presented. Designing the News is a blog that documents the project. There are six versions, one for every day of the week the Guardian is printed.

My favorite is Saturday:

Dakine Laptop Sleeve

Hand lettering on my new Dakine laptop sleeve:

Superdeluxe Monogram Patterns

Since this week our assignment is to make patterns with letterforms, I thought this from Superdeluxe NYC would be appropriate:


Their front page: