Flipping through the last issue of V magazine, and as fun as the issue itself was, i couldn’t help but fixate on this recurring object filled font! So, naturally i snapped a bunch of pics to share it with you… it’s filled with iphones and purses and masks and champagne glasses and mittens and snow flakes and trees and sunglasses and rings and shoes and airplanes and more! See more close ups of this font and its various instances on the next page…

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Tags: font - magazines - typography

This is Bjorn Johansson's Anatomy of a Typeface ~ "Triptych made for a gallery exhibition in 2005. The work is playing with the word "anatomy" which in typographic terms is referring to the different parts of a character." It's somehow been in an open tab for me all day, and its absolutely mesmerizing, too bad there isn't a complete font in this style... that could result in some incredible posters! See more close ups after the jump!

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I am apparently easily seduced by the right type... faces. Oh so many bad puns bouncing around my head right now. Pushing those aside... latest email from Veer had me drooling over Alejandro Paul's latest typographic creation: Feel Script. There's little i can say about it that you can't experience better by seeing the examples in their slideshow ~ see my favorites below, as well as it's story. I think he may be one of my favorite font designers these days ~ i'm still smitten with Affair.

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Rock Well - I saw this adorable Limited Edition font inspired guitar pick on Ace Jet 170... which led me to the Rockwell font page... this pile of picks at Redesigners (which also says "Simon says email him if you’d like one simonwhybray (at) gmail.com")... and also to Simon Whybray's site on the project. And on Simon's site, it mentions is you send him £2, he'll pop one in the post and maybe some other goodies as well.

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Happy *belated* Birthday, Helvetica! Check out this incredible cake that Matt Michaluk and friends made.... absolutely gorgeous, and making me a bit hungry this morning... more images here. And a MUST SEE video of the cake eating in action below... (via Swiss Miss!)

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For anyone who loves a good ambigram, or is terribly indecisive on whether they want people to come or go... SuckUK's latest are a doormat and door hanger with a beautifully designed Come In/Go Away Ambigram.

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TypeTalk - handwriting fonts with something to say. MFA Thesis project of Amy Papaelias, this is a fun, well executed project that gives fonts some context - both in handwriting style and the way it translates what you're really saying.... examples above are the Sugar and Spice and the Francophile. Sugar and Spice "replicates the expected speech of a nine year old girl. Socially acceptable roles dictate linguistic choices of emotional expression." Francophile on the otherhand "asserts the French salutations and phrases to decorate an otherwise English vocabulary." It is even the actual handwriting of a French woman. I love that Papaelias sees typography as "Visual Pronunciation".

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