Wordle

ok, so at the FontFeed they told me about this Wordle thing… so here are a few i made using the rss feed from this blog…

Wordle made using the RSS feed from this blog.

Another Wordle created using the RSS feed from this blog.

Another wordle made using the RSS feed from this blog.

 

check it out. it’s cool.

thanks for listening…

byebye – sye

Helvetica Cafe?

hello, my friend perri just txt’d me this pic she snapped:

Helvetica Cafe in Melbourne, Australia

it’s a cafe in melbourne called ‘helvetica cafe’. that is pretty sweet if you ask me… but is does beg the question, did they name the cafe after the typeface, or choose the font after the name?

this cafe has been mentioned before on the helvetica film blog.

(btw if you have not seen the film ‘helvetica’ you really should. check it out here)

this kind of thing has happened before, there is a good flickr set about it here and it’s been dubbed LTypI or Lack of Typographic Imagination.

thanks for listening.

cheers

- sye

CPD Chomel – an update

ok, so i’ve finally finished the uppercase for my font CPD Chomel. yay!

it still has a long way to go, but at least it can now be used for most basic layouts.

CPD Chomel - A typeface by Simon Robertson

you can get a pdf here.

let me know what you think.

thanks for listening.

byebye – sye

Type and Media Masters from i love typography

Ok, so this is a great post on iLT about a course I’d love to do!

check it:

Type and Media Masters | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog.

Thanks of listeneing

byebye – sye

Olympic Medal Count Map

I was over at Phil’s blog and saw he had put a link to this Olympic Medal Count Map.

It’s great, and even for someone like me who is not much of a sports fan, it’s quite interesting.

As a designer I like how they have used both the geographic and rank views to display winning countries.

The interface is very nice.

Using this I found out that in 1904 the USA got a total of 239 medals! That is amazing, and it seems that the rest of the world just gave up. I have no idea why, but now that I know this, I’m interested to find out. So if anyone has any info, please pass it on. Ok, I Googled it and found this.

One feature I wish they had added would be to search for a specific country, and see how that country did over time. Even better would have been to select a few countries and see how they compared over time. So for example, I could see how Australia compared to our friendly rivals New Zealand.

Anyway, check it out, it’s fun, and you may just learn something.

Thanks for listening.

byebye – sye