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Feeling Good Typography

You know how I feel about Nina Simone right? Remember a few weeks ago, the post entitled 10 Things You Should Know About the Extraordinary Nina Simone? If I’ve taken the time to do a 10 Things… post about someone, it means that I really love their music and think that they deserve our respect [...]

Typing Marilyn Monroe

Art made from letters? Set to music? We have just discovered the perfect storm of my creative passions…or at least something that really appeals to a lot of my senses. Created by Martin Missfeldt in two hours, the Marilyn Monroe image illustrates, once again, that creating art is an act of seeing.
Here’s a speed video [...]

Life According to Thomas Broome

Swedish artist Thomas Broome creates images out of words. Literally. This ongoing project, which he calls Modern Mantra, explores the everyday dimensionality of objects, using the object’s name to give it form.

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Bokeh Type

Here’s a fun experiment to help you get over the mid-week blahs. Head over to the Bokeh Type webpage, click in the center and start typing. I’m not sure what exactly is going on there, but it is pretty cool.
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In Celebration of: Giant Typewriters

I’m not sure whether this was a marketing move or an engineering challenge, but really…what’s not to like about a giant typewriter?

Giant typewriters also played a regular role as props in comic books.

In their performance of “Too Marvelous for Words,” Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon tapped all over giant typewriter keys while the chorus line [...]

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