It’s official. We’re back from our summer break and after a couple of weeks in the tropical climates of Vanuatu, I’ve managed to come back with a few added shades of pink to my now shedding epidermis. Hard to believe how quickly it has gone, but it’s now time to get back into the groove.

To kick off the new year, I thought I’d spread the word about a documentary called Typeface. A quaint film about Hamilton Wood Type Museum, a museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, that tells the story of a bygone-era in Typography and the fading art of hand-making letterforms.

P.S. – A belated Happy New Year to you all.

I just have to tell the world about these amazing posters I bought a couple of days ago. I found them via one of my fav haunts for cool stuff.

After doing an extensive amount of travel through the US of A over the years, I’ve always had a soft spot for some of their well known cities. So when I saw these very cool screenprints that illustrate the main suburbs of metropolitan America in type, I just had to get me some.

To brighten up the empty walls of our office, I bought myself three posters from Ork, one of the city that never sleeps – New York City – which has been screen printed with silver ink (two hits) on black 30% recycled paper by Wausau Paper (Eclipse Black). Another of Boston – a gorgeous city – which, naturally, came printed with white ink on green 100% recycled paper by French Paper Co.. And my third choice and favourite city of them all – San Francisco – which, fittingly, came beautifully printed in dark grey ink on a golden yellow 30% recycled stock by Wausau Paper which, in my eyes, perfectly represents the city (Think golden gate. Think gold rush. Think 49ers).

Since receiving them in the post (super quick delivery, too) I’ve had them professionally framed within a contemporary black frame and lots of ivory coloured matt board surrounding the print and they now hang proudly on my once blank-walls, looking very kick-ass!

There are a stack of other major US cities to chose from (14 in total), in a variety of stocks and colours on the Ork Posters website. Regrettably, they don’t have any other cities from around the world, which is a bit of a shame, but hopefully the popularity of these designs will increase the demand for other places of interest. I would definitely pay good money for one of Melbourne and it’s inner city suburbs… in fact, if anyone at Ork reads this, I hereby offer my professional design services and knowledge of Melbourne to collaborate with you guys!

If you like typography and have a thing for Americana – you should definitely treat yourself to some of these unique prints!

Just saw this terrible display of poor punctuation at my local KFC. The signwriter should be ashamed and the franchise should be embarrassed enough to fix it.

Seen any other pathetic displays of improper punctuation or grammar that’s worthwhile showing?

(Posted from iPhone)

This little ditty came to light a little while back (via Gizmodo) whilst we were updating the site. So I’ve been keeping it in my ‘Things to Blog About’, until the blog was back up and running.

Designed by Dylan Roscover, this homage to Steve Jobs, which has been created entirely from Apple’s Mac OS system fonts, is a great example of the growing trend of Typographic Illustrations (see 51st Grammys poster promotes Thom in type) that are emerging on the web.

If you know of any other great examples of Typographic Art, tell us about it.

It’s an all-out typeface-off in College Humour’s sequel to Font Conference

“Last week I was contacted to make a video for a new Kanye West produced Jay-Z song for RED & the Global Fund to Fight AIDS in Africa. It launched today (World AIDS Day) at red.msn.com. And while I’m happy to be able to help the cause I’m also more than a little bit excited about getting a chance to make something for the likes of Jay-Z and Kanye. I’ve been turning down client requests to use Typographic Illustration for 5 years in hopes that one day the phone would ring and it would be Hova … I’m pretty sure that this is the first rap video to end with a download source code link.” – Evan Roth