Typography is an interesting beast. Twenty years ago we were stuck with a range of system fonts on our computers, and were lucky if Dot Matrix printers could render them into anything resembling legible words. Nowadays everyone’s got an opinion about Helvetica and Comic Sans. This video by Ji Lee for his forthcoming book Word [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Art and design'
Terrific typography
October 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Art and design, Life, Technology
Tags:Comic Sans·Dot matrix printer·Font·Graphic design·Helvetica·postaweek2011·Typesetting
Blu-Ray Harvest
September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Art and design, Cinema
The Blu-Ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga is imminent, and boy has it been controversial. In a move seemingly designed to upset millions of fan boys /girls, George Lucas has been tinkering with the films again. Most of the changes are negligible (realistically blinking Ewoks, CGI Yoda in Episode I) , but some [...]
Tags:8-bit·Blu-ray Disc·Epic films·Ewok·George Lucas·Han Solo·pixel art·postaweek2011·retro·Star Wars·Star Wars films·Yoda
Excelsior!
July 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Art and design, Life
Loving these interpretations of DC and Marvel superheroes in the cubist style of Pablo Picasso from Wonder Bros. I’m sure these will deeply offend art purists, but as an eternal provocateur I’m sure Picasso would have got a kick out of them. He is quoted after all as saying that ‘taste is the enemy of [...]
Tags:Cubism·DC Comics·Jack Kirby·Marvel Comics·Modern art·Pablo Picasso·postaweek2011·Purist·Stan Lee·Steve Ditko·Visual arts·Wonder Bros
