Chalk this way.. © Dana Tanamachi.

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Nagging Doubt “The Pull” from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.

Molly Woodward from NYC is making this awesome project called Vernacular Typography

and has set the project up on Kickstarter. If you want to help her out and get som cool shit

Pledge this project on Kickstarter (http://kck.st/xIf4Uo).

About Vernacular Typography:

Vernacular Typography is a digital archive and community-based initiative dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and promotion of vanishing examples of lettering in the everyday environment. It seeks to explore, protect, and support the typographic environment in cities around the world that retain their rich traditions of vernacular signage. (http://kck.st/xIf4Uo).

For more info visit:
Vernacular Typography
Vernacular Typography blog

Friday 20th of May – the workshop venue, normally a place where they do plastic surgery (!!) but this day was all about type. (check out the “E” in the building fasade)

I’m tired (from last nights Karlovackos) but ready for som typeface to face with the Croatians.

HOWtoWOW goes HelloTypo™.

We handed out letter cards to the workshop participants. The plan was to get the crowd to make the letter from ready mates they found round and about. But first we had to fill their heads and hearts with typographical joy and inspiration.

Aasmund with the last minute touch.

The CBS lunch room wall from the 1960′s by Herb Lubalin.

Aasmund talking about the statistics of typefaces used in a street in Melbourne. Not surprisingly, Helvetica is over represented…

But after a couple of hours talking about typography, it was time to make some.

The task: “Go out. Find ready mates. Build a letter. Take a photo” The crowd went out for fifteen minutes and came back with all sorts of sweet stuff. Flowers, dried up dog shit, bananas, car tires, medication, sugar, toys, rocks and loads more.

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k, X, Q, M, o, d, I

Sliding typography.

Free buttons before lunch.

Lunch. Discussing typography, Flash, billboards, Busta Rhymes, beer prices and The Pope.

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Typface all over the place.

Checking out what we did before lunch.

The famous kerning discussion.

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Now we’re going to make a bitmap font of the ready made letters, free for download. It will be up in a couple of weeks.

We finished up the workshop with showing some type treatment done by the HelloTypo™ club members. The image over is of the font See Ark Sheep by Stian and his compadre.

I started the day out tired, and ended the day tired. But I was a happy camper. Oh’ the joy! We enjoyed to do the workshop, it was great fun.

Heydays shared their found of  this great type site on Twitter the other day. I´m glad they did. Now we can share it with you guys!

Go have a look see!

Sweet. More from A Love Letter For You. We posted a piece from this project earlier. A Love Letter For You is a project by Stephen Powers. I love this project. A lot. Read more about the project.

Nice sign. Nice building.

More.

© Keith Davis Young

Some nice use of type at Latitude festival. Charming, colorful, and good vibes.

More pics here.

Something cool to look at  whilst eating lunch:

La vie des marques from Materialiste Paris on Vimeo.

Nicely painted signs.

Photo ©Walker Evans. Buy it here.

Via MyFonts Twitter stream I stumbled upon this blogpost about a super sized sign on a blimp hangar. And yes, of course, it´s Helvetica (120.000 pt (sic!) ). Now I know where to park my blimp.

Read the story over at Woodtyper.

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