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Tag: Typography

  • Kite Runner

    Clearly I’ve missed out until recently when I saw the movie Kite Runner (based on the book of the same title by Khaled Hosseini). What drew me into the movie initially (since I will admit I’ve not read the book) were the titles by MK12 and their flowing whirl of dreamy watercolored calligraphy. Lovely, right?…

  • Here for Good

    For those who attended the 99% Conference a few weeks ago in New York, got a preview of stills from most of this commercial; but now that it’s be released to the public, we can all enjoy it: What do you think, dear readers? Can a bank really stand for something? Would you do business…

  • Type Oscars

    It may be almost a month before the Academy Awards, but Ellen Lupton has already posted her picks for the Oscars of Type. Personally I love her Best Serif pick: Which faces made your list, dear readers?

  • What type are you?

    Ever had that existential crisis where you lose sleep wondering what typeface truly exemplifies your creative spirit? I know I’ve long suffered the anguish of not knowing– am I Meta or Ma(n)son? Well, our collective prayers have been answered! The design sages at Pentagram have given us the quiz tool: what type are you? You…

  • Ode to Neutra

    Ever the type-geek, I couldn’t resist sharing this TERRIBLE (terribly AWESOME, that is) video parody: Kind of makes you want to grow a well-kept beard, n’est pas?

  • Cheese or Font

    For whatever reason, I’ve had a tendency over the last three years to avoid general silliness here on AmandaMuses; some of it can be chalked up to an attempt to keep my private self private and allow this site to serve as more of a public sketchbook related to my work. But for those who…

  • Barnbrook’s motion

    For the last two days, or evenings really, I’ve been reading The Barnbrook Bible as my break from work. It has been an absolute delight, leaving me further inspired by and in awe of Barnbrook’s work and perspective. I had the good fortune to spend some time with him at Grafic Europe in Berlin 5…

  • She One

    Lately, I’ve been generating increasingly more work after having lapsed into a brief creative coma of sort earlier this year. As I shake off the creative cobwebs and jitters, I feel more compelled to work and tend to have more ideas than I can make good on or even record or realize. Typically, when I…

  • Letterpress Delicacies

    For whatever reason, I’ve been looking at a lot of letterpessed work lately. I’d like to share the work of an Austin-based couple, Heather & Thomas hollifield, also known as Letterpress Delicacies. The precision and clean lines of their design style is exciting. Taking a peek at their charming work available for purchase online via…

  • For Sandra

    A colleague of mine likes a button on one of the jackets I wear too often at work. She just moved into a new office space and needs to personalize her space; this is for her: It’s my adult equivalent of coloring on my lunch break and giving her something to put on an imaginary…

  • Signs in London

    It is always interesting to see what sort of messages a different culture sends out, even one so seemingly similar. Here are a few highlights from a trip to London a few weeks ago:

  • Type Experiment

    Can you tell what it says?