Posts Tagged ‘Design’
HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet
For all you web-designers delving into the world of HTML5, here is a handy cheat sheet for the canvasing element. The credit goes to Jacob Seidelin for putting it together.
(Also, that Mario graphic on the bottom of the page is actually a mini side-scroller. Pretty cool!)
Cool Covers
Penguin and Pelican books, we all know them as the inexpensive paperback books that we used for our high school and college English courses.
Some people in the design world have been drawing attention to those paperbacks that most of us didn’t think much about. As a start, a good website to take a look at a collection of Penguin covers spanning several years is designer Joe Kral’s flickr page. If you like what you see and want to know more, there are a few books devoted to the subject.
Anna’s Favorite Designers
Anna (Skytemple’s blogger and editor) has contributed the following designers:
Font designer Phillip Bouwsma
Book artist Susan kae Grant, whose book Radio Active Substances is about the life of Marie Curie.
Second Story Interactive Studios creates fully interactive exhibits.
Artist and designer Roni Horn
Linotype: The Film
For all of our readers interested in the history, development, and technology of printing and type, here is a film we recently learned about and thought we’d bring to your attention.
“Linotype: The Film” Teaser from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.
The documentary directed by Doug Wilson isn’t going to be released until some time in the fall of 2011. You can, however, keep tabs on the project both by following the developing website and on twitter.
Special Font Feature Extra!
In doing the research for each of the fonts in the Font Feature, I came across a font that I had to include as a little extra, because it is just that cool.
I love manuscript hands, old typefaces and other such historic methods of representing text. So when I find modern fonts that attempt to recreate the older forms, I get pretty excited. This particular font from Canada Type has such a unique concept that it has quickly become one of my favorite fonts just on an intellectual basis.
Tupelo merges the handwritings of Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln. What do those two men have in common? According to research that the font’s designer, calligrapher Philip Bouwsma, conducted, Elvis and Lincoln learned the same style of handwriting when they were kids.
On top is Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and on the bottom is Elvis’ letter to Richard Nixon. In Tupelo I see a bit more of Lincoln’s refined script but Elvis’ letter slant and flourishes (especially the tail of the ‘y’). Just the fact that Bouwsma had the idea to combine the hands of these two men makes Tupelo unique and interesting. But I could also see this being a useful font as it is nicely spaced and not overly ornamented script.
I hope you enjoyed seeing and learning a bit about the various fonts this week as much as I enjoyed researching them!
-Anna
