John Nack on Adobe : Recent Typographic Tastiness

March 05, 2008

The Uppercase Journal features a collection of great-looking vintage typewriter tins.
Flickr features a “Folk Typography Pool,” consisting of lettering found all over the place. I especially like the now-requisite Obama imagery. The whole thing reminds me of how notoriously bad auto body shops’ signs are–a phenomenon honored in Brian Stuparyk’s free MC Auto font.
Speaking of bad:
- What results from bad kerning? Keming. Love it. :-)
- Apostrophe Atrophy is a photographic collection of bad typography. [Via]
- That’s gonna leave a mark: Wrong Font Chosen For Gravestone. (At least it wasn’t Comic Sans.)
How excellently simple are these Oil of Olay ads?
Design Week honors the top film title designs of 2007. Pity that we can’t see them in motion here.
Peep Craig Ward’s illustrative typography and typographic portraits. [Via]

Posted by John Nack at 10:33 PM on March 05, 2008

Matt Radel — 11:46 AM on March 06, 2008 Reply

The typographic stuff is cool, but what about the Shatner Show site mentioned in the sidebar on UPPERCASE? Now THAT is cool. :)
[Oh, but it's *so* last month... ;-) Yes, very cool indeed, and worth a bump. --J.]
Phillip Kerman — 2:51 PM on March 06, 2008 Reply

Did someone say “Typography in Flash”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzvFlgEVwwg
[Scaary! --J.]
keith — 6:36 PM on March 06, 2008 Reply

Wow John’s still posting despite his new babysitting job.
[Lacking an integrated mobile nursing solution(TM), I find there's only so much the Nack Daddy can do. Therefore I remain on standby, trying to remain productive if possible. --J.]