Typezilla

A font of shame

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:44:00 +0000

Author, Simon Garfield wrote a really nice piece in the L.A. Times about his love for typography, and his (and others) disdain for the new London Olympics logo. I would have to agree, it really is a low point in design for the Olympic history. And once you see what Lisa Simpson is doing to Bart, you can't unsee it.

Garfield, references the other logos, so I thought, let's take a look at the others and see how poorly this London one stacks up. Here's a list of every logo from the summer and winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2012. My personal fave is Athens. The blend of traditional with the handwritten logo is simply beautiful.

Typographer Ryan Gosling

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:29:00 +0000

Smooth and handsome Gosling lays it down for the ladies (and typographers).

Awesome Poster from Vahalla Studios

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:46:00 +0000

Check out the full size here. Love the gray on black printing.

Props to Migtastic for the find.

A Field Guide To Typestaches

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:38:00 +0000

Who doesn't love a mustache made out of type?!

Inception Typeface = Gotham. How appropriate.

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:10:00 +0000

Seeing as Christopher Nolan's last two films dealt with Gotham city's caped crusader, I wonder if it was on purpose, or a happy accident that his following film uses the font named after the flying bat's city. (This is the kind of stuff that keeps me awake at night)

BTW, the film was one of the best I've seen in years. I can't wait to see it again.

Someone's been drunk blogging with Comic Sans

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:10:00 +0000

http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/news/gilbert_letter_100708.html

Unintentionally Dirty Font Fails

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:56:00 +0000

As always, be careful out there when choosing typefaces. More here.

Beautiful Words Written in Knives

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:49:00 +0000

Thanks to Rebecca Rivera for sharing this. "Saw this in Paris. The words are written with knives." I love it. (click to enlarge)

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Thanks to Miguel and Don for sending me this. This is rich. (BTW, I still hate you Comic Sans)

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html

Concert Posters

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:02:00 +0000

Love the simplicity and design of these beautiful concert posters. HT to Miguel for the awesome find.

Old School Type Love/Hate

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:06:00 +0000

United Weights of Helvetica

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:18:00 +0000

Sweet. It's about time the weights of Helvetica were united. Thanks to Miguel for the find. Buy the shirt here.

Typefaces and Dogs

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:49:00 +0000

HT to Don Lupo for the find.
More here.

Beautiful Graffitti

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:39:00 +0000

Beautiful street art. RIPO was raised in NYC and now lives in Barcelona. His parents were creatives that brought him at an early age to galleries and museums.

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

French Fry "A"

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:32:00 +0000

Via Jessica Hische http://twitter.com/jessicahische/status/8824374345

My message in a bottle

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:41:00 +0000

I recently took part in a quickie quiz online that asked 8 or so questions about ABC's Lost. I managed to get them right, so they sent me (and 814 others) the below package. A note and a flash drive with a movie clip on it. I was under the assumption that the footage was exclusive, but looking on the ABC website, the clip was there, too. So, I'm guessing the exclusivity was the message, "Nothing's Irreversible." Which sounds a lot like an Adidas tagline.

At any rate, I can't wait for the final season.

By the way, the video on the flash drive was 102 MB. Would've been cool if it was 108. (Nerd Level: Rising...)

Oh, and for the typophiles that follow this blog for typography stuff, the Lost logo looks like a variation on Impact, and the note is illustrated.

Helveticookies

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:17:00 +0000

Mmmm, I could eat a whole stanza's worth.

I'm curious how the "O", "D", "B", "R", "P" and "Q" cookies handle the counter (empty space inside the stroke). Created by graphic designer, Beverly Hsu.

HT to the magnificent Don Lupo for the find

Interesting Letterhead pieces

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:35:00 +0000

A writer friend of mine, Robert Manley found this and thought his AD friends would find it interesting.

One word: yes.

here's the rest here.

Avatar and the worst possible font choice. Papyrus

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:18:00 +0000

I saw Avatar this weekend. And while the story was decent, the action was amazing and the special effects were mind-blowing, I don't understand why James Cameron chose the single worst typeface ever, Papyrus. Was Comic Sans not loaded in the designers' computer?

He uses it as the main logo

And as subtitles throughout

A mini Twitter revolt has begun, understandably. This film cost gazillions to make. They could've at least dropped some coin on a type designer to create a custom font. Shows how little respect the world of typography gets.

Type T-Shirts

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:51:00 +0000

Cool shirts. Check out more here.

Superman/Batman Public Enemies

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:37:00 +0000

Love the title treatment for this. Via Art of the Title Sequence

So Disappointed - Brothers Typeface

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Why is it that studios market a film with a killer type treatment and then when it's time for trailers and the actual movie, they resort to boiler plate, status quo boringness?

Case in point, "Brothers". The typeface on top is used in the one-sheets and obviously, the site. Love the disjointed cut style on the bottom.

But the trailer has the old stand-by. Trajan. What gives?

Franklin Gothic

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:31:00 +0000

HT to Miguel for the find

Kick Ass Zombieland logo

noreply@blogger.com (Marcus) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:24:00 +0000

Check out how not all the letters are the same type of neon. Love it. It reminds me of an uber-extreme version of the Picturehouse logo.

And taking some visual cues here

And here