Happy Wednesday: 2 iPad Videos

Wired magazine for iPad and iPad + Velcro. Enjoy. (lust. covet.)

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

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Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory

open source web fonts!

The Google Font Directory provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the Google Font API.



Today we are excited to announce a collection of high quality open source web fonts in the Google Font Directory, and the Google Font API to make them available to everybody on the web. For a long time, the web has lagged print and even other electronic media in typographic sophistication. To enjoy the visual richness of diverse fonts, webmasters have resorted to workarounds such as baking text into images. Thanks to browser support for web fonts, this is rapidly changing. Web fonts, enabled by the CSS3 @font-face standard, are hosted in the cloud and sent to browsers as needed.

Google has been working with a number of talented font designers to produce a varied collection of high quality open source fonts for the Google Font Directory. With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set of so-called “web-safe” fonts that come installed on most computers.

The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers.

read full article here.

NYT: A Guided Tour in the Palm of Your Hand

ARTS / ART & DESIGN | January 15, 2010
Art Review | 'Design USA': A Guided Tour in the Palm of Your Hand
By ROBERTA SMITH
With its use of the iPhone as a curating device, the new show at the Cooper-Hewitt is less an exhibition than an extra-large design seminar in your head.

Type Foundries

Dalton Maag



sudtipos

Top font of 2008

Original posted by Type Talk
The top font from Veer, MyFont, I love Typography and Font Shop. Please feel free to take a look and love to see more click on each picture will go to direct link.

Veer


My Font

I love Typographic


Font Shop

Artists For Obama

These are art works for Obama. See more at Font feed

The best logo from Wolda

This is the winner showcase from Wolda. What is Wolda? Built on the success of Eulda, the European Logo Design Annual (which it replaces), Wolda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world. The winners are selected by an international three-tier jury consisting of 10 top design professionals, 10 marketing managers from major international clients and finally 10 members of the public (provided respectively by the worldwide organizations Icograda, Aquent and Consumers International).
Check out more WINNER SHOWCASE

Book Design from AIGA 2008

This is a book design annual 2008 from AIGA.
See more

Favorite typeface from Typographica

Here is a link!!!

News: Alternatives to Helvetica

By Fontfeed

Helvetica is a classic. Helvetica is played out. Each of these statements is true to an extent. The world’s most recognizable typeface will soon star in a new film that documents both its omnipresence and its timelessness.

There are many reasons why Helvetica is so widespread. The most obvious being that a few weights have been bundled with the Mac OS for years. It is arguably the most respectable of the “default” fonts. But it’s also used because it’s a safe, neutral choice. For many purposes, typography is more about content than style. Fans of Beatrice Warde will tell you that typographers should communicate without distraction. Helvetica, with its simple, unadorned forms, is the perfect crystal goblet. Even its ubiquity contributes to its neutrality — letters so common they become invisible....Read More