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"There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist."—Charles R MackIntosh
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FatFonts [fatfonts.org] is a novel numeric typeface for data visualization purposes. The design of FatFonts is based on Arabic numerals, but the amount of ink (i.e. dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This font enables the reading of numerical data while still preserving an overall visual context.
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"The Bygone Bureau: A Journal of Modern Thought"
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typography of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition
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"Almost Fluoroscent Nude", By Fiona Banner 2007.
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Japanese Typographic Poster: Ikko Tanaka. Graphic Master. 1993
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Cross-writing by Charles Darwin
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Psychic SEO really looks cool!
Dave Kuper Visually striking and thought provoking all at once...
Tied Down Typeface: Giant letters of a sign for New York Magazine are captured en route by photographer Kirk Bannon out of his hotel window at the Palace Hotel.
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Arabic calligraphy in an album from the 16th century by Ahmed Karahisari. On display at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Robbie Reeve I see bismallah al-rahman al-rahim running from the right corner toward us to the left corner, and I see alhamdulillah in the square up top there. Now that I've looked at it for a minute and seen some more of the calligraphic style I'm seeing some other things too, but I have to do my actual homework for Arabic before class starts here. Extra credit will have to wait, I'm afraid. Thanks, Ben. I like this find.
Alexandra Klein Brittany spence
Jason Antonic you're all wrong. It's a superconductive microchip. Hook it up the four diodes and it will awake a hibernating Alien beneath it!
Jason Antonic It's like an ancient pop-goes-the-weasel joke.
HipHopChessFed e2006 I hope to go to Turkey one day...thats really beautiful.
Arabic calligraphy
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Robbie Reeve This says "Allah" over and over. It's a very interesting font choice that isn't in keeping with a lot of Arabic calligraphy. Very modern and different by comparison.
von guido Thank you @Robbie Reeve
Ben Golder Actually Robbie, I just saw a similarly abstract and geometric calligraphy in a Quran from the Hagia Sophia library. So there are some old precedents for such a design.
Robbie Reeve Really? Neat! I haven't seen anything like this before. I'm still delighted when I get to use my pathetic two years of Arabic in any capacity, even if it's on Pinterest.
Ben Golder It isn't a Quran, it's just an 'album'. But it is about 500 years old.
"From the 12th century, this is thought to be the first written document in the Catalan language"
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Fabian Vazquez Fernandez ufff... catalan change a lot in more centuries... i'm catalonian and i cant understand nothig...
Ben Golder English too. I have a friend who can speak Middle English, and it sounds like another language.
Color is used to distinguish events, and the overall piece presents a strong visual narrative with distinct segments using only text.
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Erma McKinney Such an appropriate theme for the 2012 Black History month.
Kathleen Shared this on Twitter, Fantastic!
Erma McKinney @ Kathleen- if only I knew how to post my pinterest to my Facebook page, I could really get into this art form. I can send my pinterest by email, but can't figure out how to share my creativity on FB. Any pointers???
Erma McKinney @Kathleen-please follow:http://pinterest.com...
Sheila Ligon-Washington Beautiful..Thanks for sharing!
Arabic typeface designed to interlock into a unique overall shape
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Dishon Gillis What is this shape?
Ben Golder The 'correct' name for this specific shape would be "blockity-block", but you could also call it a "blockish blocktangle"
Never got to see this lined up at Burning Man, but walked through the cubes
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Archizoom No-Stop City (1969) The plans for Archizoom ’s 1969 No-Stop City were typed out on a typewriter. The plan emerged from limitations of typesetting: leading, tabs, indentation, and spacing. Appropriately enough, the project conceived as architectureless architecture is represented with a planless plan. Operating more like graph paper, the plan was seductively incomplete and
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Ben Golder @Even Sharp: I know, and I love this project.
Stergia Sar http://library.nu/docs... This is the link from LibraryNU. If it requires registration do it. It is avery rich e-archive of free books. I have found dozens of interesting titles...
Herbert F. (Herb) Lubalin (1918 – May 24, 1981)
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UNKNOWN, REAL STEEL JAPANESE MOVIE POSTER 2011: showing the robot "noisy boy." also, if anyone knows who designed this poster, the info would be much appreciated!
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classic minimal style with great visual complexity
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JONAS LINDSTROEM, SEMESTER PROJECT WINTER TERM 2010 KLASSE HICKMANN: #poster project. #jonas_lindstroem #typography
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good things to be found in the Eye archives on flickr. Jacqueline Casey poster for MIT
by Eye magazine
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"obsessions make my life worse and my work better" by Stefan Sagmeister. Yes. This is made out of coins. All coins. In a plaza.
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typographic posters by Áron Janscó. lowercase "g" in ogaki typeface.
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![FatFonts [fatfonts.org] is a novel numeric typeface for data visualization purposes. The design of FatFonts is based on Arabic numerals, but the amount of ink (i.e. dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This font enables the reading of numerical data while still preserving an overall visual context.](http://media-cache3.pinterest.com/upload/178736678931702590_nHOO7HZG_b.jpg)
Robbie Reeve Okay, Google Translate helped me with this. It makes no sense in Arabic but translates pretty easily with Persian (though the grammar might be off): تصويرها وخواندني منتخبي از طراحي هاي جاد كتاب - مجيد عباسي Selection of books designed for reading images of the road - Majid Abbasi
Zia Ghiasi Yes, it's Farsi/Persian. And it means: Readable Pictures. A Selected Book Cover Designs.
Ben Golder thanks @Robbie Reeve.
Robbie Reeve Heh, don't thank me, thank @Zia Ghiasi--his translation's way better. That's what happens when you get a white boy with two years of Arabic in college trying to figure out Farsi instead.
Ben Golder thanks @Zia Ghiasi