{"id":12639,"date":"2008-01-29T00:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/state-of-the-typographic-union.html"},"modified":"2008-01-29T00:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:07:07","slug":"state_of_the_typographic_union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/state_of_the_typographic_union\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Typographic Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The frontrunners: Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.&#160; So says the Boston Globe, analyzing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2008\/01\/27\/what_font_says_change\/\">type treatments of the US presidential candidates<\/a>.&#160; Of Obama: &#8220;Clean pen strokes evoke a well-pressed Armani suit.&#8221;&#160; Of McCain: &#8220;Everything about this logo says you can buy a car from this man.&#8221;&#160; [Via reader Tim] <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the world of type: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3Dishness:\n<ul>\n<li>Nik Ainley (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/10\/tasty_3d_busine.html\">previous<\/a>) discusses his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalartsonline.co.uk\/tutorials\/index.cfm?featureID=1617\">3D typographic techniques<\/a> on Digital Arts. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopsupport.com\/photoshop-blog\/08\/01\/waterfront-28.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Nelson Balaban goes in a similar direction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtrabold.net\/showcase\/xtrapop.html\">Xtrabold<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.typeneu.com\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li> John Caserta&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncaserta.com\/yale\/helvetica\/index.html\">Dimensional Forms<\/a>&#8221; are 3D foam blocks that can assume the appearance of different letters when seen from different angles.&#160; Check out the video on the left. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppercasegallery.ca\/uppercase-journal\/2008\/1\/15\/type-tuesday-foam-typography.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>FontShop has revealed their picks for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\/features\/newsletters\/jan08a\/\">Top Ten Typefaces of 2007<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tania Mouraud goes enormous with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvork.com\/?p=5926\">How Can You Sleep<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Were these guys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typography.com\/ask\/showBlog.php?blogID=67\">trying to be ironic<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/do_as_i_say_8711.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The Musalman, operating since 1927, is the only handwritten newspaper in Asia.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/musalman.100hands.net\/\"><em>The Last Calligraphers<\/em><\/a> tells its story. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/031743.html\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frontrunners: Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.&#160; So says the Boston Globe, analyzing the type treatments of the US presidential candidates.&#160; Of Obama: &#8220;Clean pen strokes evoke a well-pressed Armani suit.&#8221;&#160; Of McCain: &#8220;Everything about this logo says you can buy a car from this man.&#8221;&#160; [Via reader Tim] Elsewhere in the world of [&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\/12639"}],"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=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}