John Nack on Adobe : Typography laid bare

January 03, 2007

PingMag discusses the origins, history, and state of Iranian typography & provides numerous beautiful examples. I dig these two in particular.
Taylor Lane has created a series of typographic pinups (fair warning: there’s some glyph-heavy nekkidness). [Via Marc Pawliger]
In an inverse vein (not pictures made from letters, but letters from pictures), Giornale Nuovo offers a brief history of figurative alphabets. [Via]
Joshua Smith has posted a gallery of cool type treatments (including his own logotype) on Hydro74. The rest of his site is worth a visit for dynamite illustrations & more. [Via]
Type for you is a new typography blog, containing links to useful resources like Typies’ 15 tips to choose a good text type. [Via]

Posted by John Nack at 10:45 PM on January 03, 2007

Matthias — 1:22 AM on January 04, 2007 Reply

Type for you linked to web typography, a great resource.
Great links, thanks for sharing!
Mordy Golding — 9:31 AM on January 04, 2007 Reply

And my latest episode of Pen, the Vector Podcast, also focuses on typography — with a really interesting Asian text feature tip that applies both to AI and PS.
[Cool--thanks for the lead. --J.]