Just got back from a rock & roll bar mitzvah in Denver, Colorado, and I had time to get two new episodes of the Thinking and Driving series up.
Zombies and Solar Flares (Episode 5) – An NPR talk on solar flares taking out our power grid got me thinking about viral videos for the National Outdoor Leadership School.
Yellow Purple Shickadoo (Episode 6) - http://www.shickadoo.com My creative muse sat next to me on my drive back to Lander, Wyoming. We discussed ideas no how to incorporate color with the shickadoo logotype.
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One of my new years resolutions was to learn as much as possible about typography as I could. I am a couple months into my type exploration and I thought I would share my list of resources and blogs that I find helpful and inspiring.
What The Font – You can upload an image of some typography and it will try to find the font being used. /r/typography – A reddit (forum) community of type enthusiasts. Design Guy – Blog/Podcast: “Talking About Type, An Introductory Word” OpenType Guide – A complete guide to understaning OpenType. 8Faces Magazine – A bi-annual magazine that interviews people in the type world and asks them If you could only have 8 typefaces for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
Where do you get your type inspiration? What did I miss?
This is my epic climbing movie of 2006. On the weekends we used to drive up to LaFayette, Georgia from Atlanta. We would make big fires at night, and climb V-fun sandstone boulders during the day.
We also used to go caving in Pettyjohns Cave at the bottom of Pigeon Mountain. It’s a damn shame they paved that road.
From sending photos of office supplies attacking people to zefrank, to /b/tards on 4chan drawing stick figures finding ways to get cake on the opposite end of a void, to designers creating quick posters based on the theme of ‘Empty‘ for WordIt, people are participating in creative acts everyday online in these ad-hoc (unorganized), spontaneous and collaborative games.
But there is no ONE place to go to find this kind of play occurring. Enter website x, a playground for the internets. A place to show off your creativity, a place to laugh and contemplate deep meanings behind submissions. A viral cesspool of creativity where truly inventive ideas crawl onto the shores of existence.
In the spirit of the site itself I am asking my friends and friends of friends to help me pick a name for the site. Also, if it fails I can blame you. :)
