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Daily Drop Cap

beth — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:27:15 +0000

Typographer and Illustrator, Jessica Hische, has set out to create “an illustrative initial every day,” and she is sharing her beautiful work through a website dedicated to her efforts: dailydropcap.com. She is currently on letter “N.”

Away We Go Movie Poster and Trailer

britt — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:34:48 +0000

Away We Go Movie Poster

A couple years ago Beth wrote about the yU+co title sequence for The Bee Movie. Well it is about time for us to take note of another movie that has beautiful Typography and Illustration. I saw the Trailer for “Away We Go” a month or so ago, and it has been on my mind often. I absolutely love the movie poster (above) with the mix of photography, illustrated background, and Hand-Lettered Type.

Away We Go comes out in Theaters June 12, 2009.

(below are stills from the Trailer)

Really? OBAMABATS!?!

britt — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:38:28 +0000

image from jeffdomke.com

Most people are probably familiar with Dingbats or Wingdings, but have you heard of ObamaBats? Jeff Domke created the set of Obama characters from web photos After a little bit of designer magic TADA there’s a new set of “…Bats”.

Check out Jeff’s Website or Download the free “ObamaBats”.