{"id":12513,"date":"2007-10-08T09:16:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T09:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/10\/thug-fonts-queequeg-elvish-more.html"},"modified":"2007-10-08T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T09:16:36","slug":"thug_fonts_queequeg_elvish_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/thug_fonts_queequeg_elvish_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Thug fonts, Queequeg, Elvish, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/10\/fullscreen_flas.html\">this<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/10\/adobe_unveils_h.html\">whole<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/10\/adobe_thermo_ph.html\">non<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/10\/use_aeflash_to.html\">stop<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/10\/details_of_onli.html\">Flash<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/10\/sweet_flashflic.html\">fest<\/a>, let&#8217;s clear the palette with a little typography: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call him Quinnqueg: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmgalleries.com\/artists\/quinn.html\">Justin Quinn&#8217;s typographic art<\/a> (more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conduitgallery.com\/artist_pgs\/quinn.htm\">here<\/a>) is inspired by the doomed obsessiveness found in <em>Moby-Dick<\/em>: &#8220;By repeating a spiraling, swirling labyrinthian structure, Quinn places himself in the role of Ahab who continually redraws his charts which travel nowhere and only to go into themselves.&#8221;&#160; Oh, and <em>he uses only the letter <u>E<\/u>. <\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/09\/14138.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a typographic neutron bomb: Nike France <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/SINGLE_AD_PAGE.php?ad=nike_france.jpg\">zaps the person<\/a>, leaving only artifacts &amp; letters.<\/li>\n<li>The clean, curvaceous strokes of Marian Bantjes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bantjes.com\/index.php?id=182\">swirl through a whole campaign<\/a> for Saks. [Via Maria Brenny]<\/li>\n<li>Dig the striking type &amp; art direction in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/economist-3.html\">The Economist&#8217;s latest campaign<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/speakup\/archives\/003819.html\">Dr. Copperplate &amp; Mr. Gothic<\/a>, Armin Vit ponders good uses of the often-abused Copperplate Gothic. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftloft.com\/portfolio\/lavori\/tipografia\/tipografia.asp\">LL Tipografia<\/a> offers some tasty wares; love the little running man in LL SanSiro.<\/li>\n<li>To create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chank.com\/freefont_detail.php?sku=1103\">Ballers Delight<\/a>, Mr. <a href=\"http:\/\/chank.wordpress.com\/\">Chank Diesel<\/a> led 50 workshop participants through some old-fashioned arts &amp; crafts: &#8220;Each individual letter was constructed out of beads and gems on small canvas boards measuring 5&#8243;x7&#8243;. Letters were then photographed and the resulting pics were used for making a thuggish new grunge font with a big hip-hop influence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of grunge fonts, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereo-type.net\/\">StereoType<\/a>&#8216;s   &#8220;Bagpack.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/axel.cfwebtools.com\/index.cfm\/2007\/8\/29\/Really-awesome-fonts\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve been needing Elvish fonts (it&#8217;s okay&#8211;you know who you are), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dafont.com\/theme.php?cat=705\">DaFont&#8217;s got your back<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/axel.cfwebtools.com\/index.cfm\/2007\/8\/29\/Really-awesome-fonts\">Via<\/a>]\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst this whole non&#8211;stop Flash fest, let&#8217;s clear the palette with a little typography: Call him Quinnqueg: Justin Quinn&#8217;s typographic art (more here) is inspired by the doomed obsessiveness found in Moby-Dick: &#8220;By repeating a spiraling, swirling labyrinthian structure, Quinn places himself in the role of Ahab who continually redraws his charts which travel nowhere [&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":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}