Helvetica has never sounded so good.

Thanks to @lionthetiger for sharing it with me on Twitter!

Check out this video of awesome designer-guy James Victore going around New York and talkng about all the typography he sees. It’s a pretty great look at typography that makes you just appreciate the detail of everything around you, which is what I always loved about design. Victore’s approach is to appreciate what’s out there without devolving into design snobbery about how every small business should have hired a designer, which I also appreciate.

Also, for some reason, he’s in a WWII/Korea-era army jeep, so I kept thinking him and Hawkeye Pierce were gonna have martinis and make font puns. I’d watch the hell out of that show.

Thanks to @MariesaKDale for putting this on my radar!

I’m sure there’s a few marks on the road (hence all the broom handle moving) but the absolute nonchalance and confidence these guys have to just DRAW HUGE LETTERS is pretty great. With one hand literally behind his back!

Street typography from Tom Williams on Vimeo.

(Via Kottke.org)

Sent in by Systemic Allison. Originally by SlimKiwi.

This happened.

This has been going around and is pretty great. Just think how long it would’ve taken to cut out all those letters. This was created by Ben Barrett-Forrest

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…in which my stunt double explains the deal with Comic Sans. I’m down with it.

There are laws that say I have to post this stuff when I find it.

Thanks to SCSpooner for sending my way this part-typography-part-sci-fi (that’s-a-lot-of-dashes) poster, an eye chart of all letters from well-known sci-fi logos. Can you name them all?

CHECK OUT THE WHOLE POSTER »

A new (and free!) font based upon the style of lettering seen on Art Deco Cassandre posters. To celebrate, the creators (a design firm called Atip0) recreated a series of his posters (seen above). The video on the site is worth checking out, as is the font!

I don’t get a chance to do enough classy Art Deco work. Maybe I need to drink more wine…

See more at Cassannet.Net »