This nifty animation by Allesandro Novelli shows letters in various typefaces melting together and reforming. (The Alphabet from n9ve on Vimeo. First seen here.)
Isaac Salazar’s Book Art
Isaac Salazar calls his works “book origami” and says
I see my work as a way to display a meaningful piece of art onto a book that would otherwise sit on a shelf and collect dust; it’s also my way of recycling a book that might otherwise end up in a landfill… If my work also makes people look at a book and even art in a new light then the piece has done its job.
You can see many more on his flickr page.
Abecegoogle (most popular search letter)
smäll has an alphabet poster ordered according to popularity for each letter in Google search. (Their site is in Spanish, try using Google translator to read it in English). Without thinking much, you would probably guess that the one letter words A and I are miles ahead of any other searched letter (over 25 billion each). It falls off very quickly, with S, T and E at 4 billion (smäll speculates that S is third as it’s the abbreviation of saint and street). Look here to see the number of searches for all letters and the numbers 0-9.
Maybe more interesting would be an alphabet poster of the most searched words starting with each letter of the alphabet. (Check out Google Zeitgeist to see some of the phrases that were used most in searches in 2010.)
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In time for Valentine’s Day, I have a few new letterpress printed things in my shop. From left to right:
Mini note cards, set of 6 with envelopes.
Heart note cards with red and pink envelopes, set of 6
Another set of 6 mini note cards with envelopes.
The mini note cards are business card-sized — 3-1/2″ x 2″ — and the heart note cards are A2 (or 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″) and all are blank on the back. You can see all my note cards, tags and mini cards here.
Typographic Maps of Ursula Hitz
This is one of Ursula Hitz‘s limited edition hand lettered maps (this one of Central London, see them all here along with fonts and other prints.
Found on the Ministry of Type where there are 2 thoughtful posts (here and here) about making maps of words.
Haiku Economics
Stephen T. Ziliak, a professor of economics at the Roosevelt University, has a piece in the January issue of Poetry called “Haiku Economics.” He starts off:
I’m an economist. Yet poetry is my first stop on the way to invention—discovery of metaphors. No matter the audience, a model is a metaphor. Not every economist understands that. Poetry can fill the gap between reason and emotion, adding feelings to economics.
Read his entire article here.