For the past several weeks I’ve enjoyed reading David Wolske’s blog Letterpress Daily where he documents his continually expanding type collection. It appears to be mostly wood type, and entries are like the one below — a photo of a wood block and a resulting print plus a bit about the font. See more here.
After spending the last 10 months shoe-horning all our belongings into our new smaller home, I’m telling my family I don’t want any presents for Christmas — not even a book. But if I did, here’s one that sounds interesting… The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog, a typeface memory game. It “includes 25 variations of the letter ‘A’, each in a different letter type. Players attempt to find the matching A’s in the same letter type.” (First seen here on swissmiss.)
Amid all their floral designs, Kleenex is selling a box of tissues decorated with wood type. I’ve been looking for it in every store I visit, but no luck so far…
While there’s lots of free clip art available on the web, much of it isn’t very useful. But I thought this set of “typographic elements” — a collection of ampersands and “the”s available from Free Fresh Creative — was pretty novel. Download a PDF here. (Although I have to admit that I can’t readily think of where I’d use one of those “The”s.)
This past weekend Sydney Australia was home to the Pop Up Alphabet Co Op, a type-centric exhibition / installation / pop-up shop. On display were limited edition type-inspired prints, lights, jewellery, knits, clothes and postcards. You can see some of the designs here. Below is Typographic Puzzle by Upon a Fold — lots more about it here.
The poster to the left was created using the entire text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (it’s 20×24″). Postertext, the company that sells it, says “hang your favorite book on the wall with the book’s text, arranged to depict a memorable scene from the book!” Among others, they have posters of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, as well as non-books like the Linux Kernel. Check them out here.