{"id":12570,"date":"2007-11-30T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/11\/friday-typography-killer-belt-buckles-more.html"},"modified":"2007-11-30T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T11:00:59","slug":"friday_typography_killer_belt_buckles_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/friday_typography_killer_belt_buckles_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Typography: Killer belt buckles &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Swash, meet buckle: Veer offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/merchdetail.aspx?image=VPR0001440\">kickass belt fastener<\/a>.&#160; If that&#8217;s up your alley, see also their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/merchdetail.aspx?image=VPR0001450\">type-spattered umbrella<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Terri Stone of CreativePro.com has uncovered a number of fun, time-wasting type tools:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typeflake.com\/\">TYPEflake*<\/a> lets you create snowflakes using letters, then email the results.<\/li>\n<li> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redkid.net\/generator\/cake\/\">Cake Writing Generator<\/a> lays down your words in icing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typotheque.com\/type_utilities\/dancewriter\/\">DanceWriter<\/a> spells things out using bodies in motion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of bodies-as-type, peep Hijack Your Life&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijackyourlife.com\/HandWriting.htm\">Hand typography<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/hijack_your_lifes_hand_typography_8048.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Interested in cool hand-drawn type?&#160; Check out WMMNA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/009819.php\"><em>Hand Job<\/em> review<\/a>, with samples. <\/li>\n<li>Dig the old-school broadsheet sensibility of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/11\/11\/white-mischief-londo.html\">White Mischief poster<\/a>, and the hacked-up negative space on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/07\/public-radio-station.html\"><em>Howl<\/em> cover<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Creative Techs talk about dealing with issues related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativetechs.com\/iq\/preparing_for_leopard_helvetica_is_dead.html\">Helvetica in OS X Leopard<\/a>.&#160; [Via Lynn Grillo]<\/li>\n<li>The Type Directors Club has put out a <a href=\"http:\/\/graphicdesignbasics.com\/2007\/type-directors-club-exhibition-call-for-entries.html\">call for entries<\/a> for new goodness.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/26122.html?cprose=daily\">latest edition of Type Talk<\/a> covers proofreaders&#8217; marks and other tweaky but potentially interesting bits.<\/li>\n<li>Mentioned earlier in the week, the Adobe Design Center featuers an article on  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/designcenter\/photoshop\/articles\/phscs3_cibchpt8.html\">typographic design with Photoshop <\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swash, meet buckle: Veer offers a kickass belt fastener.&#160; If that&#8217;s up your alley, see also their type-spattered umbrella. Terri Stone of CreativePro.com has uncovered a number of fun, time-wasting type tools: TYPEflake* lets you create snowflakes using letters, then email the results. The Cake Writing Generator lays down your words in icing. DanceWriter spells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}