Illustrator Kate Bingaman has spent 3 years of her life drawing everything she’s bought. A really interesting insight into the everyday objects many of us take for granted.

Is this the punctuation mark that could save those all those apologies and misunderstandings…

Its an interesting idea… I wonder if this will proliferate?

Morisawa, a japanese developer of digital fonts, created Fontpark, an awesome Flash application to help market their products. Fontpark is basically a drawing tool, where you use japanese or latin glyphs to create patterns and illustration like images. The glyphs can be dragged around, scaled, rotated and duplicated. The whole process is recorded and can be watched afterwards. There is a gallery with sorting functionality and a rating tool. All user works can be browsed, there is an embedded player widget as well, that shows a random piece. Below you can see an example of the recorded process.



Link: fontpark.morisawa.co.jp

The perfect iPhone App for a font geek… we love it…

With that time of year coming up I thought I’d take this opportunity to give you all a helpful, very personal, and very easy way to give a little love on the 14th. Paper White studio has given you the tools to get a good “aww, your soo ____” With relatively little effort, check out ILoveYouMoreThanBlank and get the kisses your effort deserves.

Well it is sort of letting someone else do the work for you, in terms of our blog. But ill have to let myself of after reading this article by Paul Shaw, on the AIGA website. It is a very interesting and informative essay on the formation of the New York subway system signage, and links in well with an earlier post of out on the New York Subway Map

Read it here

Great piece of marketing by Extensis, nicely targeted.

This amazing aquatic complex in Le Harve is part of a major regeneration project for one of the oldest docks in France. Designed by the 2008 Prtizker-prize winning architect Jean Nouvel the building takes inspiration from roman bath houses, with acoustics a major consideration, with artificial ceilings put in just to reduce echoes, a common problem with aquatic centre design. There are a number of different zone that are subtly coloured, giving a different but coherent feel between the spaces. The best part for us is the wayfinding and typography, using the grout of the small tiles as a grid for the type. For more pictures see Clément Guillaume’s photostream