Friday, November 28, 2008
decodeunicode.org is an independent online platform for digital type culture, developed at the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz.
To meet the requirements of global communication, every modern operating system facilitates access to a great variety of scripts: Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Braille, to name just a few. There’s also a huge number of special characters such as dingbats, copyright characters, currency symbols, mathematical characters, and punctuation.
decodeunicode is an independent platform for digital type culture, conceived and developed under the lead of professor Johannes Bergerhausen in cooperation with the designer Siri Poarangan at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic research and facilitating a textual approach to the characters of the world for all computer users. That way, expert knowledge can be systematically collected and made accessible to the general public.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
A beautiful font by a German artist called 0c/0m/0y/0k. Made from photos of power lines.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
To get the whole experience of this text you need to visit Telescopic Text
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
In September 2008 Sagmeister Inc. participated in Droog Event 2: Urban Play. The public art installation consisted of 250,000 eurocents placed on the floor, covering more than 300sqm on a square in Amsterdam. The coins spelled out the sentence “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better.” The piece is part of the series “Things I have learned in my life so far” by Stefan Sagmeister.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
The 2010 Olympic graphic identity and pictograms were unveiled yesterday in Vancouver. Overall the system is very comprehensive and impressive. From the west coast colour palette to the wonderfully detailed pictograms, the entire system sets us apart. They have also created a short behind-the-inspiration movie talking about the design team’s process and inspiration. You can view it here
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Is it possible to build an object which displays all the letters of the alphabet if you play around with it? Yes it is: Das Patent from Adam Slowik
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Wondering why there is a giant purple Helvetica 5 on this bill, that doesn’t seem to match the style, colour scheme, or historical reference of the rest of the design? Well apparently it’s for people with low-vision.
Apparently someone forgot to tell the US treasury that taste does not have to be left at the door of accessibility.
gethelveticaoffourmoney.com
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