For years, movie posters have utilized Carol Twombly’s font creation Trajan. There’s even a montage of covers here. Thankfully, it’s a well drawn font. Let’s all be grateful that we don’t encounter Avant Garde on many movie posters. There may be a bold new font on the rise and a few people have asked me about it. It’s called Brothers, designed by John Downer at Emigre. It’s accompanied by a great set of alternate glyphs, word logos and elements. I first used Brothers on an identity project 5 years ago and I’ve enjoyed it ever since due to it’s bold, chiseled and lithographic forms.
typefoundry.blogspot.com — Documents for the history of type and letterforms
type tool — simplified font creation, limited in features from it’s older brother Font Lab
Mercury — font based on the Scotch typefaces designed in the 1770s (from H&FJ)
Yay, my idea came to fruition, they even kept the name suggestion 
google goggles
Original post in Aug 2006: http://sethtaylor.com/b2/2006/08/14/google-goggles/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4
As you can see, there are a few differences, mainly, my version would use glasses which would be a projector screen and the front of the glasses would be a camera to help identify landmarks or whatever you were seeing.
I wish I could have explained it with those great accents though. Good job team.
Jpg artifact art. This is after 20 iterations of saving a jpg at 0% quality and then isolating the artifact pattern. The irony? This final image was saved at 100 % quality to preserve the artifact sharpness.
artifact art
I particularly enjoy the colors and texture of lichen on rocks. The combinations of the sage greens, with oxide, desaturated purples and the subtle differences of grey spellbind my mind. Makes me thrilled to utilize my rods and cones. It’s like a favorite meal that never gets old.
Fonts have texture and color that are completely independent of [color] cones. The texture and color I’m referring to deals strictly with the rods—the luminance detecting part of the eye. A well designed magazine and site make tasteful use of multiple textures and colors. I’ve noticed that great site make use of several textures beyond what is commonly specified in CSS and frequently required custom lables in div tags. Here’s a list.
Dominant
Logo
Main Benefit
Main Navigation
Info
Table
Chart
Flash Animation
News Feeds
Search
Download
PDF/Whitepapers
Movie
Presentations
10 tips
End Goal
Product photography
Price
Buttons
Newsletter
RSS
Share with a friend
Post you own
Bookmark it
Text Formatting
Heading 1
Heading 2
Link formatting
Italics
Bold
Body Paragraph
List numbered/unordered
Quotes
Block indent
Elements
Header
Content Background
Full Background
Motifs
Contact Form
Comments
Avatars
Minutiae
Login/Logout
Certifications/Endorsements
Picture Captions
Tiny icons
Page number
Copyright
The handling of the minutiae has a surprising significance.
When we take the time to figure out what we assume, it can unveil opportunities for innovation.
The purpose of the following list is not to say that these changes will make for a better internet experience, or that there aren’t exceptions to these assumptions, but merely to discover what we assume about the dub dub dub.
It is assumed that:
- sites are navigated by clicking on links. What if there were other behaviors to control your user experience
- files from the server is what will load on screen. What if images like “mom.jpg” were accessed from your hard drive and displayed on a web page? What if these images endorsed products?
- pages are navigated with visual feedback. What if items were read or found by aural feedback, or tactile experiences. Read the rest of this entry »
Studies in Value vs Form
Color is relative, values are relative.
A and B are the same value in the below diagram
How long does each circle cluster move?
