{"id":934,"date":"2008-02-02T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/saturday-type-lip-tats-to-woody-allen.html"},"modified":"2008-02-02T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T14:52:13","slug":"saturday_type_lip_tats_to_woody_allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/saturday_type_lip_tats_to_woody_allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Type: Lip tats to Woody Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New alphabets have emerged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeremypettis.com\/\">Twenty-Six Types of Animals<\/a>, Jeremy Pettis uses type for &#8220;channelling the essence of the beast.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coudal.com\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>The Daily Mail has amassed a rather amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/technology\/technology.html?in_article_id=509168&amp;in_page_id=1965\">butterfly wing alphabet<\/a>&#8211;each letter found in nature. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/031549.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><em>Ow, ow, ow<\/em>: if you&#8217;re not too squeamish, check out Thijs Verbeek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thijsverbeek.nl\/index5.html\">Clothespin &amp; skin alphabet<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/222476092\/clothespin-and-skin.html\">Via<\/a>]&#160; (In a similarly painful vein (no pun intended), how about a little <a href=\"http:\/\/stereogum.com\/b-sides\/you-could-be-a-bigger-morrisse-007951.html\">Mozzer on your lips<\/a>? [Via Bryan O&#8217;Neil Hughes])<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/better-together.co.uk\/index.html\">Politically Incorrect Alphabet<\/a> is more cute than offensive. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coudal.com\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsewhere in the world of type&#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fun with cultural detritus:\n<ul>\n<li>I dig Symen \u201cEnkeling\u201d Veenstra&#8217;s lovingly crafted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enkeling.nl\/category\/typography\/cover-versions\/spam-series\/\">Spam Series<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/12\/26\/enkelings-spam-art\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The Surrealist riffs on the visual language of England&#8217;s gossip rags with this <a href=\"http:\/\/thesurrealist.co.uk\/standard.php\">tabloid text generator<\/a>.&#160; (I&#8217;m waiting to see a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/sketchy-blogger.jpg\">Swedish version<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Also hailing from Jolly Ol&#8217; is this <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/225762652\/rotting-london-groce.html\">rotting London grocery store sign<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll want to  don safety glasses before inspecting these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typophile.com\/node\/2833\">flair typefaces from the 70&#8217;s<\/a> (scroll down til you hit the motherlode).&#160; My wife will always refer to Bookman as &#8220;that yacht club font.&#8221;&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/01\/14928.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Staying on the them  of puke induction, what&#8217;s up with the font used for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citrinitas.com\/history_of_viscom\/index.html\">The History of Visual Communication<\/a>?&#160; Type is a little like wine with me, in that I never feel confident in my tastes.&#160; In both cases I&#8217;m kind of reassured when I hit something and can say, &#8220;Okay, that&#8217;s just foul.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Type goes beautifully, organically creepy in this <a href=\"http:\/\/kitsunenoir.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/the-spiderwick-chronicles-ad\/\">ad for <em>Th<\/em><em>e Spiderwick Chronicles<\/em><\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>BibliOdyssey features a terrific collection of historic <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/ornamental-typography.html\">ornamental typography<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Cristian Kit Paul chronicles <a href=\"http:\/\/kitblog.com\/2007\/12\/woody_allens_typography.html\">Woody Allen&#8217;s typographic repetitions<\/a>.&#160; Apparently the choice of Windsor goes back to asking designer Ed Benguiat for advice over breakfast. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New alphabets have emerged: With his Twenty-Six Types of Animals, Jeremy Pettis uses type for &#8220;channelling the essence of the beast.&#8221; [Via] The Daily Mail has amassed a rather amazing butterfly wing alphabet&#8211;each letter found in nature. [Via] Ow, ow, ow: if you&#8217;re not too squeamish, check out Thijs Verbeek&#8217;s Clothespin &amp; skin alphabet. 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