Type for you. http://www.typeforyou.org A blog on typography. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 ILoveTypography favorite typefaces of 2009 http://www.typeforyou.org/2010/01/22/ilovetypography-favorite-typefaces-of-2009/ http://www.typeforyou.org/2010/01/22/ilovetypography-favorite-typefaces-of-2009/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:17:38 +0000 Pedro Serrão
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http://www.typeforyou.org/?p=614 catacumba

Don’t miss it, a great list!

Congratulations to Rui Abreu, a portuguese fantastic entry to the top 2009 fonts with Catacumba.

And I also love Phaeton, what a beauty.

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http://www.typeforyou.org/?p=610 TypeStar-3-640x400

TypeStar is a lyric visualizer created by Scott Garner that renders lyrics of a song in realtime according to a number of preset visualization schemes.
Application is available as Mac, Windows and Linux download.
(via creativeapplications.net)

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http://www.typeforyou.org/?p=606 poster_nosewritten_we

“Unique Types is a special collection of fonts inspired by children suffering from physical disabilities. Each font is created under the Creative Common license and is free of rights and limitations on use.”
The idea of this project is to inspire designers, typographers and digital artists challenging them to create unique fonts inspired by children suffering from physical disabilities.

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http://www.typeforyou.org/?p=602 fontfont_infographics

For the celebration of its 20th birthday Fontshop as created an excellent inforgraphic document. Let me remind also that this is growing for the next weeks.

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HypeForType just launched their Exclusive Faces Volume.02 featuring the typography work of names such as Non-Format, Research Studios, Suprb, MWM Graphics and Richard Perez.
Go check them out!

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http://www.typeforyou.org/?p=591 shane_bzdok

We would like to thanks all the participants, visitors and collaborators for the work that they’ve done until this moment, a special thanks to Hype For Type for the collaboration in the typeface competition that was a very nice surprise. The winner was Shane Bzdok which you can a small biography  in the next lines.
Please keep send us news about your works or interesting typography related stuff, we will try to keep the pace and post them here.

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Shane Bzdok works as an art director, designer and web developer at BBDK, Inc. ( http://www.bbdk.com/ ) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His relationship with owners Duane King and Bob Borden began back in 2000 when he joined King at focus2 to help develop award winning print, packaging and interactive solutions for national and overseas clients. He now applies his talents to developing solutions for both clients and the contstantly evolving internal endeavors of BBDK. Part of those endeavors include writing the occasional article and contributing other content to BBDK’s passion project, Thinking for a Living™ ( http://www.thinkingforaliving.org ).

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]]> http://www.typeforyou.org/2009/10/21/shane-bzdok-our-competition-winner/feed/ 0 Michael Flückiger & Nicolas Kunz – Dynamic Typography http://www.typeforyou.org/2009/10/20/michael-lebovitz-dynamic-typography/ http://www.typeforyou.org/2009/10/20/michael-lebovitz-dynamic-typography/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:26:17 +0000 João Planche
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http://www.typeforyou.org/?p=584 A-New-Kind-of-Typography

Michael Lebovitz from Big Spaceship made a great work with user interaction and typography.
Using a controller, Michael made possible to elongate or widen the Laika typeface. The other option was trough user position and reflecting that position in changes to the Sputnik typeface.
Check the videos from PSFK

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Hope you like it.

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This is a project of Evan Stremke, a poster where he lays down the Rules of Typography, not only this is a great reminder to have on any design studio but it’s also free for download.

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After some thoughts on the submissions we had, we have come to find a winner of the competition that us, Typeforyou and Hypefortype created. The winner of this competition was Shane Bzdok with a very nice crafted typeface that we in the end thought it was the best.We want to thank all of the participants, and let me say already that we will be displaying all the submissions on the site, were just preparing the material, so stay tuned.

As for the winner, Shane Bzdok, we will contact you so that you can get your prize, and ofcourse we want some words from you.

One more time, thank for all the hard work you had on entering this competition, hope to see more from you in the future.

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