Awesome type experiment or tagging?

Some of you have already seen this, but give it a watch. One of the most amazing things I've seen yet. I think it has implications far beyond tagging.

PingMag

Hey Everyone,

I found this japanese website based on this Ping Magazine.  They have a typography archive page with tons of different type treatments from around the world.  It's pretty sweet.  

www.pingmag.jp/ 

Check it out!

Steve

Type Music Video

I found this awesome type-on-skin music video. A lot of practice involved here... a lot of practice.

Look-a-Likes

Hey guys, this is not type related but I came across the photographer, Francois Brunelle. He photographs people from across the world who are look-likes that are not related. I find this fascinating but also freaky. 

http://www.francoisbrunelle.com/an/sosie.html

Type Perception

I came across this artist who uses shadows from various objects to create type art from plants, clouds, cereal boxes, etc.
Kind of reminded me of Mary's project with the shadows

http://www.fredeerdekens.be/
then click on the pictures link

first projects

I wanted to say good job to everyone on their first projects.
we've set the bar pretty high for the rest of the semester, and I'm adequately intimidated by all of you.

and I also might add that it was really nice to finally get questions and feedback while presenting a project.

well played, ma'ams and sirs, well played.

Lopez Murphy for President

I recently found this in my archive of tv spots and thought it was worth a post. It was featured on ads of the world a while back. Let me know what you think. (I think the copywriter and type designer deserve medals.)

Bodoni versus Didot

those of you who are taking History of Graphic Design this semester with Sheardy will recognize this.

He spoke last week about the differences between Bodoni and Didot and posed a theory that I had previously not been aware of... He said that Didot stole Giambattista Bodoni's typeface - as it was quite common for thieves to steal cast letters and sell them - and used them as the base for his own typeface. there are of course several variances between the two, and both type designers were working at the same time. so is it possible that this holds true?

I tried to do a little online research and found this article that is somewhat interesting, despite the several grammatical errors.

here are the type example images found on wikipedia:



I can't believe I'm about to type this... but I think that Sheardy might have exaggerated the situation slightly. what does everyone else think?

Time

Seeing as how the weather has been less than hospitable, those of you who would like an extra day for Project 1, you may have it. In other words, Project 1 can be due on Wednesday 13 February.

If your Project 1 is ready to present tomorrow, that's fine too. Ultimately, the projects in this class are somewhat rolling, ie they can begin and end when they need to. So, if you are finished with Project 1 tomorrow, that means that you can start thinking about Project 2 immediately.

Of course, this is all based on thinking that we'll have school tomorrow in the first place!

Good luck.

I would like to have class more then once a week

So this is a blog to Jason really but it will hopefully give everyone the answer they have been wondering about.

Is the assignment still due on Monday? I really am quite unsure about my project and was hoping to have one more class to hash it out with Jason.

Anyone else feel this way?

Amazon Kindle

Hey guys, I know it isn't my turn but I just found this on Amazon and I thought it was an interesting direction for the future book, if the future was already on sale. Electronic books have been on the market for a while but Kindle has addressed some of the problems and then added some nice features. Just something cool that you might want to check out. Here is the link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_6055642_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0Z57VD65ABSM01EWFEMV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=362478201&pf_rd_i=507846

Or just go to amazon and type in Kindle and scroll down for the video demonstration.

Road Signs

How do you feel about san serif vs. serifs? My question is this: if most believe serifs are easier to read than why are road signs not using them?