Category: Design

400 ampersand glyphs: “Coming Together” to Support Haiti

February 18th, 2010 § 0

We have already established that I have a special place in my heart for ampersands. So, of course I was excited to see this morning from Veer that a new typeface with 400 ampersands was created to raise money for Doctors Without Borders to benefit relief efforts in Haiti.

In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Society of Typographic Aficionados issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities to participate in Font Aid IV. The result was Coming Together, an OpenType font that contains over 400 ampersand glyphs designed by participants from around the world.

All proceeds from the sale of the typeface go to Doctors Without Borders, in support of continuing relief efforts in Haiti. Get it here for just $20.

Here are some of my favorites from the collection:

ampersand: three-hundred and sixty five

February 3rd, 2010 § 2

I think the sign of a true designer is someone who can appreciate a beautiful ampersand. If you don’t know what an ampersand is, I’m sorry we are going to have to break-up. You may not know but there’s a whole cult following around the love of ampersands. Today I discovered yet another blog (well tumblog to be exact) dedicated to … you guessed it, my curvy friend!

ampersandampersand.tumblr.com

Picturing the Past 10 Years

December 29th, 2009 § 0

This graphic recount of the 2000s is pretty awesome!

via swissmiss

bad restaurant menu design

November 30th, 2009 § 0

They say don’t judge a book by it’s cover … but can I judge a restaurant by it’s menu? Because I do. That’s why I love that BittBox found a Flickr group devoted to Bad Menus.