prime info graphic/kinetic typography video by Patrick Clair
SERIFS 4 LYFE HOMIE
#holler.
check out this mighty impressive MWM graphics calender.
view the whole set here
get the money….
“The fairly new art of Graffiti and its somewhat rigid rules prompt us to look further back into the history of writing. This is exactly what Niels Shoe Meulman has been doing since his teens, and at the beginning of this century he started combining the two. Thus resulting in Calligraffiti: traditional handwriting with a metropolitan attitude.”
Calligraffiti is some serious sweet business. Really want a copy of shoe’s book on my coffee table.
owen gildersleeve @ evening tweed.
those evening tweed folk got it goin on yallz. check out their archives here.
love when they do these.
I want your handwriting.
Have you ever considered how strange it is that handwriting fonts have come to convey a kind of folksy authenticity in the design lexicon of our age? It’s disingenuous. Handwriting fonts - especially the ones you see everywhere (Comic Sans, Papyrus, Lucida Handwriting) - are mechanically reproduced and manipulated into a kind of cloying, fake, plastic perfection.
Penmanship is mostly a lost art - it is (rightfully) taught less and less in school, and the opportunities for people to see your handwriting are few and far between. As a result, modern handwriting looks really cool. What’s authentic and charming and inviting about real handwriting are the little imperfections that prove it came from a real person.
SO - I have decided to become a collector of handwriting.
Here’s how it works:
- You reblog this or email/Facebook me
- I’ll arrange for you to pick up a template
- You’ll fill it out
- I will create a TrueType font from your handwriting and send it to you
As I collect handwriting, I will periodically post things rendered in the handwriting of the donor - things they have taught me, important aspects of our relationship, jokes they have told me… we’ll see.
Please donate today.
this is fucking sweet.
[bec i wasnt just gonna post all 41 that i liked.]
also noted: mind=blown
bec i never knew what came after l m n o—— until now.
har har
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