Typography

06.12.11

Sarah

Are you defined by your choice of typeface?

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Here at Dusted we can be a little geeky about typography. We like to think pretty carefully about what your typeface says about you. After all, in these digital days we rarely get the opportunity to scrutinise handwriting as we used to.
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01.04.09

Vilmar

It’s either a joke or a hoax

comic-sans

I was gobsmacked when reading about the [real] possibility of Comic Sans being chosen as the official typeface for the 2012 London Olympics. Read the rest of this entry »

18.02.09

Matt

Kern, baby kern

KERN for iPhone/iPod Touch
Finally an iPhone game aimed squarely at designers. Created by FORMation Studio, KERN is a game for typophiles in which you have to correctly place the missing letter into the descending word. A bit like typographic Tetris. KERN is available in the App Store now for £0.59 ($0.99). Read the rest of this entry »

03.06.08

Vilmar

Offf to Lisboa

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Offf festival in Lisbon, as a Dusted correspondent. The event, in its 8th edition, is one of the most exciting digital design festivals in Europe at the moment. It showcases top talents from web design to typography, motion graphics to installations, in a 3day marathon of talks, performances and workshops, lasting 10 hours each, uufff.

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30.04.08

Jack

Helvetica on film

Gary Hustwit has announced the DVD release of his documentary Helvetica. This is a feature-length documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the rapid increase of one typeface which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

22.02.08

Vilmar

Gentleman’s Quarterly for President

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The use of hardcore marketing tactics during political campaigns is notorious, specially in a country like U.S. But what role have graphic design and visual identity techniques been playing in setting the cues to support communication strategies for potential candidates? Read the rest of this entry »

13.12.07

Matt

PROviding Season’s Greetings

PRO Insurance Solutions Christmas card 2007

Once again Dusted was asked to produce the Christmas E-card for PRO Insurance. This year we went for a snow-themed typographic treatment. See the full animation after the break. Read the rest of this entry »