Archive for September, 2009

Daily Drop Cap

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Daily Drop Cap is a new project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische, her lettering is always amazing and a daily task like this is sure to yield some interesting designs.

Mobile meat

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

A New York Times article about Berlin’s Grillwalkers – Men who walk around with a grill strapped to themselves, cooking and selling bratwurst on a roll.

Red Dust

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The pictures of the dust storm that is sweeping over Sydney are amazing. Here is a nice collection on flickr.

Update: A set from the Big Picture just in

It looks so beautiful and eerie, but what was it like to walk around in?

Fun times.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Here are two funny and similarly themed sites…

– Stuff my Girlfriend says on Tumblr  

– Shit my Dad says on Twitter

Enjoy.

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

The definitive hamburger guide from A Hamburger Today. Hamburgers are one the reasons I would like to visit the US, although the yellow/orange cheese stuff looks pretty scary.

Mushroom Tunnel

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Bldgblog recently visited Australia and did a Tour or Li-Sun Exotic Mushroom Farm. I’ve bought them a few times at the Good Living Growers Market (they are excellent), but I had no idea how interesting their farm was!

Cheese or Font?

Friday, September 11th, 2009

An awesome new game combining two things close to my heart – cheese and fonts!

cheeseorfont

Gradients

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

A really beautiful gif animation over here.

Things I have learned

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Some wise words from Milton Glaser.

FIRED!

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Dangerous typographic choices in the workplace… The way stuff is perceived over email is quite interesting, I think a lot of the time tone is misconstrued. Even what sign off to use can be tricky.

Regards – too appropriate?
Warm regards – too predictable? 
Kind regards - too predictable?  
Best – too much of a brush off?
Cheers – too alcoholic/British?
Yours – too forward? 
Fondly – too sexual?
Love and kisses – too cute?
I remain yours truly – too heavy?
Thanks – too repetitive?

I’d like to work out something more personal and original.