Type foundry P22 invited designers to design a card for a deck of 52 cards, the results are quite cool..

Fontstruct is an online application that lets you create your own fonts online. YOu can also view over 600 original typefaces

Tag clouds offer users an interesting and alternative approach to navigation. Tag clouds come in all shapes and sizes, this article goes through a whole variety of styles as well as some tag cloud generators. Also check out this exceptionally creative approach to cloud tags for 'Celeb Tags' and also 'Brand Tags' so so cool!! nice use of Georgia too.

Students take heed...your cv needs just as much loving attention as your portfolio. I've seen way too many word templates formated or i should say unformated in 12pt times new roman, ugh! Here are some simple and effective ideas for laying out your cvs.

...and some more inspiration from the russian constructivism era. Just enter russian in the keyword search and be prepared to immerse yourself in the strong graphical shapes of the early 1900's.

I was just about to purchase some images for a client when I stumbled upon this sumptious, typographical, visual feast.

There is something really beautiful about hand-renderred type. In this digitally invaded world some of us are forgetting how to write by hand and even draw. A lost art perhaps. Mis-printed type is the creation of Eduardo Recife a designer/artist from Brazil.

The beautiful work of Si Scott is a typographical masterpiece. Judging from the quicktime video featured on his site I think its all hand drawn! That kind of makes it more special in this computerised world that we live in, were the craft of hand drawing seems to be becoming a lost art.

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From one of my favourite websites comes a humorous critique of the Alphabet. This is very, very funny...well at least to me; a self-confensed typograhically obsessed designer!

Typorganism is a series of communication experiments exploring computational interaction design and interactive kinetic typography, based on the metaphoric notion of typography. The ASCI tool is very cool!

An animated history of the alphabet

Most people are not aware of what they are looking at and why it works on a certain level, however if the display is inappropriate they will notice that something is not quite right. For example if you used a 'horror' like typeface on a wedding invite. So you could say that fonts work on a subconscious level.

I just came across this great little audio programe on the BBC website. If you have 30 minutes its well worth listening to. Ian Peacock talks about how the fonts we choose operate as a secret language. There are a whole lot of interviews including Neville Brody and a funny little interview with James Herbert, the horror writer. Who always demands that his publisher use a specific font for his books. He once had his publisher pulp an entire batch of books and had them reprinted because they were in the wrong font. And no he is not nuts, James Herbert worked in advertising before he wrote his first book, so he knows what his talking about.

Another person discusses the detrimental effect that a font can have on your cv. This is something that I can totally relate to; the number of times that I have received a stack of cvs from candidates applying for a graphic designer role who don't even bother to select a typeface, or even typeset their cv makes me want to cry. I get so angry with them because they have totally let themselves down, as well as the profession of graphic designers in general.

The programme also mentions the life threatening effects that fonts can have for people such as air traffic controllers. There are very strict rules about what fonts are used on their controlls because the results can be catastrophic, specially when displaying numbers and letters. The distinction between the two must be extremely obvious or the results can be catastrophic.

Other quotes which I like are: 'Typefaces are the clothes that words wear', 'a typeface dictates what tone of voice we read that in', 'fonts whisper a secret subliminal language', and by Neville Brody ' typography is very manipulative, the choice of a font will tell you how you will react emotionally to a font without even reading it.'

Usability News Org has just released the results of an interesting study called 'Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses'. Users were asked to rate the personalities of 20 fonts and also to categorise them into appropriate uses, for example enewsletters, websites, power point etc. Have a read of the results or download the Usability News Org has just released the results of an interesting study called 'Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses'. Users were asked to rate the personalities of 20 fonts and also to categorise them into appropriate uses, for example enewsletters, websites, power point etc. Have a read of the results or download the pdf of the article (296.74 KB).