Thanks to my smart and talented friends for participating in Typographica’s “Favorite Typefaces of 2011”.
This photofont is a collection of high resolution (21 x 29,7 cm - 300 dpi - cmyk) photoshop documents. Also available separately or words manually spaced by the Novo Typo designers.
Blumenhaus Wittelsbach
Munich, Germany
Florian HardwigClick the detail shot to see it large. If you have ever bent neon you see more than a nice sign here. You see evidence of painstaking effort from the hands of an experienced craftsman. Those sharp corners (such as in the ‘n’ and ‘u’ or at the end of the ‘t’ crosses where the glass goes back into the metal) are incredibly difficult to make without misshaping the glass. Usually you’ll see a slight dent at these bends. This is a work of honor and pride where no corners were cut. Signs like these were made to last, recognizing that each will be seen by thousands, perhaps millions, over its lifetime.
Precision neon is a wonder to behold, particularly if you’ve stumbled through a bending class like I have.
Roman Rockwell by Ken Barber
Simply perfect.
Monyako by Jacques Le Bailly. A redrawing of Apple’s Monaco for text and print use.
Happy 2012! » by Laura Serra
Here’s to the new year. I’m lucky I get to spend it with her.
(via laureola)
Subaru Sambar and American (GMC?) pickup truck. A few years ago I spotted these two friends in my Oakland neighborhood. I so wanted to put that little Sambar in my pocket, but all I could take were a few photos. My shot of the lovely chrome badge ended up in a variety of Subaru newspaper ads and online promotions.
![Driving the Subaru XT was like playing a 1980s-era arcade game. Demo.
The inside of the car had many aircraft-like features such as pod mounted lighting, climate control and wiper controls. The standard tilting-telescoping steering moved the instrument panel to keep it lined up with the steering column when tilting. The shifter was joystick-shaped and had a thumb trigger interlock and “on-demand” four-wheel drive button. Turbo models featured a sort of artificial horizon orange backlit liquid crystal instrument display with the tachometer, boost indicator, temperature and fuel gauges seen as three-dimensional graphs tilting back out to the horizon. Demonstration of Subaru XT digital instrumentation The aircraft cockpit approach reflected influences from Subaru’s parent company Fuji Heavy Industries, which also manufactured aircraft, such as the Fuji FA200 Aero Subaru.
The XT was loaded with features rarely found on small cars, such as a turbocharger, a computer-controlled engine and transmission, adjustable height suspension[1] and an optional digital instrument cluster. The air suspension was inspired by various manufacturers who used Hydropneumatic suspension, such as Citroen, and Mercedes-Benz. The XT also had some features found on few other cars, such as an electronic in-dash trip computer, retractable flaps covering the door handles, and a single wiper blade for the entire windscreen. Pass-through folding rear seats and racing style front seats were standard equipment.
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Driving the Subaru XT was like playing a 1980s-era arcade game. Demo.
The inside of the car had many aircraft-like features such as pod mounted lighting, climate control and wiper controls. The standard tilting-telescoping steering moved the instrument panel to keep it lined up with the steering column when tilting. The shifter was joystick-shaped and had a thumb trigger interlock and “on-demand” four-wheel drive button. Turbo models featured a sort of artificial horizon orange backlit liquid crystal instrument display with the tachometer, boost indicator, temperature and fuel gauges seen as three-dimensional graphs tilting back out to the horizon. Demonstration of Subaru XT digital instrumentation The aircraft cockpit approach reflected influences from Subaru’s parent company Fuji Heavy Industries, which also manufactured aircraft, such as the Fuji FA200 Aero Subaru.(image via Product Design Data Base)
The XT was loaded with features rarely found on small cars, such as a turbocharger, a computer-controlled engine and transmission, adjustable height suspension[1] and an optional digital instrument cluster. The air suspension was inspired by various manufacturers who used Hydropneumatic suspension, such as Citroen, and Mercedes-Benz. The XT also had some features found on few other cars, such as an electronic in-dash trip computer, retractable flaps covering the door handles, and a single wiper blade for the entire windscreen. Pass-through folding rear seats and racing style front seats were standard equipment.
Subaru Sambar promotional image, 1962 (via Product Design Data Base)
Subaru 360 promotional image, 1958 (via Product Design Data Base)
Newspaper clipping pasted in.
From the back matter of A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens (1845).
Colin M. Ford’s snapshot of the curtain at Museum of the Moving Image. It was designed by Cindy Sirko and reflects the building’s architectural elements. It is also great.
