Grab yourself a cup of coffee, this weeks links post is a hum-dinger. We meet a snail named Victor, ceramics so cool that you’ll be happy if Granny gave them to you, beautiful illustrations, more beautiful illustraions, erotic awesome stairs that makes me wish I lived in 9 level house so I could have stairs EVERYWHERE, some type history, some delicate type and some heavy type. Oh, and the first lucky caller to ring in and give us the novelty word wins a trip to the Grand Canyon!
Victor & Susie
Designers Review of Books has a brief review of a cute little book about a girl made of type named Susie who meets a snail made of type named Victor. Victor & Susie can be picked up from Brighten the Corners.
Daily Dose of Imagery – Ice and the City
I’ve been enjoying the daily photography of Sam Javanrouh for sometime and had to share this shot.
Adam Simpson
Adam Simpson’s three-dimensional illustrations are a joy to behold. The attention to detail is superb and the textures of the shadows are as smooth as could be.
Stephanie DeArmond
Found on the always great Words & Eggs, the ceramic work of Stephanie DeArmond is gorgeous. Her ceramic letters with floral patterns provide a great contrast to the fonts chosen and the words made. Something about the word hustle in a script font with floral patterns makes me go wild. Not to mention the inclusion of pop-culture references on such work gives us a kind of irony I’m not smart enough to get. Is it irony? Ah well, pretty much any 3D type is beautiful, but DeArmond’s 3D type is delicately so.
Stair Porn
Haha, exactly what it sounds like and it’s surprisingly good. Except for the heavy bass guitar background music.
Andrew Holder
Found via It’s Nice That, the illustrations of Andrew Holder are making my morning today. I love the textures and the use of simple coloured shapes.
Delicate Type
This is another one that I haven’t got much more info on except for where I found it. Whatever the reason for its creation, this is just stunning. Whether it was done with a laser cutter or done be scalpel (which, if it was, is an amazing effort), it’s a stunning piece of typography and craft.
Khoda: Six-Thousand For Five.
There are some creative works that make you stop and take notice, if not for their quality then for their craft. If not their craft, then the effort and scope of the project. This captures all of those and you can’t help but feel damningly lazy and vibrantly inspired.
Student Reza Dolatabadi spent two years painting a total of 6,000 pieces and then stitched them together for an exhilirating 4 minutes and 52 second video. Bravo!
Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.
FF Din Minisite
I can’t help but love and loathe this site. You see, Din is one of our two corporate fonts where I work, and being part of an in-house studio I see it a lot. So while Din is a lovely font, there are days that I see it too much and a site like this one seems like a sinful idea. But, good fonts being good fonts, I find little things about it that I like that bring me back to appreciating its characteristics. And this site and the stories it tells make it easier to love, rather than loathe.
The Letter Museum
Ohhhhhhh, oh oh, this is something worth traveling around the world to go see. A museum is being established in Berlin to help remind us and future generations of the beauty that can be found in letterforms.
“The goal of the Letter’s Museum is to awaken the public’s interest and awareness in typography.”
In Defense of Readers
One of the best online reads of the week was Mandy Brown’s thoughts on how we read and how online readers and the content they read should be treated and displayed.
Have a week!
Comments
5 pieces of brilliance put forth by the audience
Esben Thomsen
6th of March, 2009 • www twitter
Andrew Holders illustration are fantastic, nice find.
Andrew Kelsall
7th of March, 2009
Adam Simpsons piece is great?very “M C Escher-esk”. I love conceptual pieces of work like this. It makes a change from all the “photoshop explosions” artwork that seems to be prominent these days.
Alex Charchar
7th of March, 2009 • www twitter
They’re great, aren’t they Esben? Would love to have a print or two of his around the house!
Hey Andrew,
I know what you mean about photoshop explosions (great expression). As is pretty evident from the design of retinart, I much prefer work that has a bit of texture, an organic feeling to it and something that has the use of hands in effect..
all this shiny light stuff is starting to get amazingly boring for me — I find very few people can do it right (Chuck Anderson for example) and it look crafted. But each to their own, of course. I’m sure there’s people that are turned off by the look of retinart ;)
Andrew Kelsall
8th of March, 2009 • www twitter
I don’t know why anyone would be turned off by the look of Retinart, I love the design…but I suppose some may find it too textured for reasons of their own.
I think your style is unique. The only thing I would look into is the fact that FireFox won’t remember my email, name and web address in the comments field, like it does for all other blogs I visit.
I don’t know if anyone else has the same problem, but it may be worth looking into, as it may put some people off commenting?
Alex Charchar
8th of March, 2009 • www twitter
I think it’s the textured look, which I’m sure some people are sick of — which I’m fine with, to be honest. There are some sites that have a certain look to them that turn me off a little.. But thanks for the kind words!
As for the comments, yeah, there are a couple things about the plugin I’m using on the CMS I’m using that bother me.. doesn’t let you put in URLs and doesn’t remember contact info.. looking forward to having a little spare time to move to wordpress
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