{"id":15514,"date":"2007-12-07T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/12\/flashamazon-powered-typography-more.html"},"modified":"2007-12-07T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:02:30","slug":"flashamazon_powered_typography_more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/flashamazon_powered_typography_more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash\/Amazon-powered typography &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yugo Nakamura &amp; Keita Kitamura&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amaztype.tha.jp\/\">Amazetype<\/a> uses Amazon Web services to spell out artists&#8217; names using pieces of their work.&#160; Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/amaztype.tha.jp\/US\/Music\/Artist?q=beatles\">example done for &quot;the Beatles<\/a>&quot;.&#160; [Via Miguel Marcos] <\/li>\n<li>Marian Bantjes has drawn up a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bantjes.com\/index.php?id=133\">influence map<\/a>, cataloging the contributors to her style.<\/li>\n<li>Pentagram&#8217;s offering a neat-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pentagram.com\/2007\/11\/pentagram-2008-typography-cale.php\">wall calendar<\/a>.&#160; If calendars are up your alley, see also Massimo Vignelli&#8217;s inexplicably beloved (?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicahome.com\/p29165\/stendig-2008-calendar-by-vignelli-now-in-stock.html\">Stendig calendar<\/a>. (Beware the pompous accompanying copy.)&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/11\/14528.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I love the simplicity of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisslegacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/italic.jpg\">The Italic Poster<\/a>. <\/em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/ffffound.com\/image\/815c7928f8adc5566783e6932c7dfe3fe9da245a\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>I feel like pouring one out in mourning for <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&amp;q=zapfino&amp;btnG=Search+Images&amp;gbv=2\">Zapfino<\/a>, the latest once-lovely typeface to get pummeled by every hack within range of a computer.&#160; (Did it get bundled into CorelDRAW or something? &gt;;-))&#160; In its place, I quietly suggest Alejandro Paul\u2019s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000181\">Affair<\/a> typeface (the same one seen in that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/merchdetail.aspx?image=VPR0001440\">Swash belt buckle<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>BMW <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibelieveinadv.com\/2007\/11\/bmw-you-can-describe-anything\/\">uses a thousand words<\/a> to describe everything but the driving experience.<\/li>\n<li>Paula Scher&#8217;s beautifully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayastendhalgallery.com\/p_scher-rp-page.html\">type-heavy paintings<\/a> are on display in NYC.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Flickr hosts a set of images showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20699459%40N05\/\">spelling via body parts<\/a> (nothing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NSFW\">NSFW<\/a>, mind you). &#160; [Via Miguel Marcos] <\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t speak Japanese, but that doesn&#8217;t dilute the impact of this text-centric <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shinmura-d.co.jp\/ad\/public\/index07.html\">poster on global warming<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/ffffound.com\/image\/911b627a7a7f6eb261d08a1e2dab942daa2afaf8\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yugo Nakamura &amp; Keita Kitamura&#8217;s Amazetype uses Amazon Web services to spell out artists&#8217; names using pieces of their work.&#160; Here&#8217;s an example done for &quot;the Beatles&quot;.&#160; [Via Miguel Marcos] Marian Bantjes has drawn up a lovely influence map, cataloging the contributors to her style. Pentagram&#8217;s offering a neat-looking wall calendar.&#160; If calendars are up [&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\/15514"}],"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=15514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}