Dutch design studio SPRANQ Creative Communications designed this font specifically to use 20% less ink due to omitting parts of the characters’ internals - think swiss cheese meets Verdana. The creators acknowledge ecofont isn’t very attactive, especially in a large size, but feel it’s suitable for internal corporate or personal purposes.
One of my favourite information designers, Nicholas Felton, just released his 2008 Annual Report.
He spends much of his time thinking about data, charts, and our daily routines. Therefore, he has created several personal annual reports (2007, 2006, 2005) that collate countless measurements of his year into a rich collection of graphs and maps reflecting the travel, photography, music, food, drink, and reading contained in the year.
Feltron also launched a new site called Daytum which provide a tool to a larger audience to examine and communicate their habits and routines.
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.
A beautiful font by a German artist called 0c/0m/0y/0k. Made from photos of power lines.
To get the whole experience of this text you need to visit Telescopic Text
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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.
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
