{"id":12610,"date":"2008-01-03T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/type-from-the-bible-to-the-beatles-to-browsers.html"},"modified":"2008-01-03T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T14:02:02","slug":"type_from_the_bible_to_the_beatles_to_brow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/type_from_the_bible_to_the_beatles_to_brow\/","title":{"rendered":"Type, from the Bible to the Beatles to Browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Calligrapher Donald Jackson approached the Benedictine monks of Saint John\u2019s University and Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, with his life-long dream: to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageedition.com\/\">the first handwritten, illuminated bible<\/a> commissioned since the invention of the printing press.&#160; You can see numerous samples &amp; read more about the process in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/stjohnsbible\/stjohns-exhibit.html\">Library of Congress exhibition<\/a>.&#160; The Adobe type guys have been screening a BBC documentary on the work here at the office. <\/li>\n<li> Experimental Jetset created the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimentaljetset.nl\/archive\/tshirtism_intro.html\">John &amp; Paul &amp; Ringo &amp; George&quot; shirt<\/a>, only to be &quot;sincerely flattered&quot; by dozens of imitators&#8211;many of whom they&#8217;ve cataloged on their site . I dig &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimentaljetset.nl\/archive\/tshirtism_vari4.html\">Juan y Pablo y Jorge y Gringo<\/a>&quot; especially. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/030721.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/webtypography.net\/\"><em>The Elements of Typographic Style<\/em> <em>Applied to the Web<\/em><\/a>, Richard Rutter attempts to apply the principles of rhythm, proportion, harmony, and more in a Web context.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/12\/20\/the-elements-of-typographic-style-applied-to-the-web\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Campbell&#8217;s Soup has created an excellent&#8211;and functional&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwipulse.com\/campbells-soup-hunger\/\">anti-hunger display<\/a> that uses soup cans to construct (and deconstruct) a word. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advertka.ru\/media\/prints\/13522\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Sharon Mount&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tinybuildings.com\/\">Tiny Buildings blog<\/a> is all about her beautiful little creations&#8211;tiny buildings created from type-clad bits of paper. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>The March of Dimes renders <a href=\"http:\/\/whatareyouwondering.com\/\">babies with type<\/a> to answer parents&#8217; questions. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re looking for retro inspiration, check out Roadsidepictures&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roadsidepictures\/sets\/72157600875392350\/\">Flickr set of 60&#8217;s supermarket signage<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\">Via<\/a>]&#160; See also his set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roadsidepictures\/sets\/72157602078306337\/\">60&#8217;s Polaroids of signs in Washington<\/a>. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calligrapher Donald Jackson approached the Benedictine monks of Saint John\u2019s University and Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, with his life-long dream: to create the first handwritten, illuminated bible commissioned since the invention of the printing press.&#160; You can see numerous samples &amp; read more about the process in this Library of Congress exhibition.&#160; The Adobe type [&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\/12610"}],"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=12610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}