Yugo Nakamura & Keita Kitamura’s Amazetype uses Amazon Web services to spell out artists’ names using pieces of their work. Here’s an example done for "the Beatles". [Via Miguel Marcos]
Marian Bantjes has drawn up a lovely influence map, cataloging the contributors to her style.
Pentagram’s offering a neat-looking wall calendar. If calendars are up your alley, see also Massimo Vignelli’s inexplicably beloved (?) Stendig calendar. (Beware the pompous accompanying copy.) [Via]
I feel like pouring one out in mourning for Zapfino, the latest once-lovely typeface to get pummeled by every hack within range of a computer. (Did it get bundled into CorelDRAW or something? >;-)) In its place, I quietly suggest Alejandro Paul’s Affair typeface (the same one seen in that Swash belt buckle).
Is the font in the Italic Poster, Franklin new Gothic?
I always seem to see this font being used in all caps in many designs but never seem to find it on many font sites or the Adobe Font Folio package.
I echo your sentiments about Zapfino. I’m afraid to use it now for fear of looking like said hacks! Goes to show that design matters, you can’t just fall back on a beautiful typeface.
In a stroke of irony, The Italic Poster appears to be oblique.
Is the font in the Italic Poster, Franklin new Gothic?
I always seem to see this font being used in all caps in many designs but never seem to find it on many font sites or the Adobe Font Folio package.
May I also recommend my favorite of Ale Paul’s script, Burgues Script? Ministry Script, Candy Script, and the new Feel Script are also luscious and inspired. Mm-mmm.
Akzidenz Grotesk, I believe, furthering the irony since Akzidenz Grotesk’s “italics” are merely oblique romans.
I echo your sentiments about Zapfino. I’m afraid to use it now for fear of looking like said hacks! Goes to show that design matters, you can’t just fall back on a beautiful typeface.