Category Archives: typography
Stihl Ad Campaign – Blown Away
Kudos to the team at Winsper in Boston for a brilliant ad campaign for Stihl products. Above is one of the magazine ads which is part of the campaign, with great copy highlighting the bad economy. It’s rare in today’s advertising marketing, with tighter and tighter budgets, to actually write briliiant copy for such a [...]
Wood Type Collection For Sale
One of the Typophile folks is selling his stunning collection of wood type blocks. This collection includes an array of unusual fonts, including historic, fancy, gothic and 20th Century modern wood blocks. You don’t find collections this vast very often and hopefully someone will purchase it in its entirety. Click here to learn more about [...]
Gallup.com Re-Designed
Created by Pentagram, the newly re-designed Gallup.com offers well-organized info-bites highlighting, what I would guess are, some of the higher trafficked and requested information Gallup has available. This is an amzing use of typography to create clear and legible bits of information. This site is a must-review for anyone who follows, tracks and uses information.
Times Redesign
On Saturday, January 24, 2009, The Times appeared in its new incarnation. The new broadsheet design (maybe we call it “retro”) harkens to its past and leaves today’s info-byte/tabloid skimmers with something to sink their eye teeth into. Though the typographic re-think leaves me cold, I do like the fact that the new tabloid inserts [...]
Shepard Fairey Obama Poster
Shepard Fairey, the artist behind President Obama’s HOPE iconic art, has released a new Obey poster to commemorate the inauguration. Fairey’s critics have detracted from his style of art, where he works from 1940′s, 50′s and 60′s iconic art and works them into his own unique commentaries of the world today. His style reminds me [...]
Happy Holidays
May your holidays be filled with love, joy, peace and great design!