Eric Tabuchi: Alphabet Truck

The French photo artist Eric Tabuchi followed trucks on the road for about 4 years in order to get a shot of their back. So what's so special about these trucks' back? Simply enough, they form the alphabet!

Font Conference

OurType | Fine Type from Europe

Here is the last one for today. OurType.be is a European typography design firm that has put out some really interesting fonts. Visit their website to view and test the fonts live with your text.

Orgdot: open source pixel and led fonts for flash

Typo day today! Here is another resource for you! Orgdot provides some sets of free pixel fonts for your flash (and not only) creations! The really cool feature is that you can preview your text using the fonts online just by typing in the textareas.

Exljbris | Free Quality Font Foundry

Jos Buivenga (blog) is a font designer that produces some really high quality typefaces! The really neat in this case is that he distributes them for free! The man is really a genius and that can be easily seen from the page views and unique visitors of his personal webpage.

Design Float

For the lovers of Digg here comes Design Float! Design Float is a social bookmarking service (just for the record Design Float is built upon Pligg) that aims to gather bookmarks related to Web Design and Graphic Arts... in other words it's a Digg-like application for designers! Sign up and feed the thing!

Loworks : graphic, web, typefaces, broadcast

Normally I should include this website to the 2nd part of Experimental Japanese flash websites, but for some strange reasons I can't finish it... Anyway here is another fine sample of Japanese flash / actionscript work concerning the web part and some really unique illustrations concerning printed work. Loworks is a Japanese based firm that deals with web design / printed works / typography & font design / broadcast. Despite the very cool look that sound looping while loading content really gets on your nerves!

Blueprint: A CSS Framework

Great news for the CSS manics around the web! About 2 days ago the new version of Blueprint was released. Blueprint is a CSS "framework" that helps in designing CSS based layouts providing a grid, somethinglike a debuggin tool. The current release (Blueprint v0.3) covers the features listed below.

1. An easily customizable grid
2. Sensible typography
   
3. A typographic baseline
   
4. Perfected CSS reset
   
5. A stylesheet for printing
   
6. No bloat of any kind

Here is also the "to do" list:

1. Support for PNG transparency in IE5.5+ (js)
   
2. Relative font sizing everywhere
   
3. Multiple versions with different grid customizations
   
4. Liquid layout version
   
5. Compressed versions of the files to reduce load times
   

As you may understand Blueprint is a very powerful CSS tool that may be useful for both professionals / experienced and novice web designers as it's pretty simple to use and can save you from some really tricky situations, allowing you to design / code with accuracy. The man behind Blueprint is this guy which probably you'd listened in the past. In order to get started follow this link to view a simple tutorial. Happy coding!

Project's homepage

esj·com·au™ | 300 times better

Here is another flash website for you. There is nothing special about the actionscript part of this flash website but I liked the gfx part. esj·com·au™ is the portfolio of Simon Andrew James, graphic artists from Cape Town, Africa. There are some really good illustrations in there so make sure to view every single one. Enjoy!

Web Designer Wall by N. Design Studio

I'm sure that most of you already know N. Design Studio through it's various releases concerning Wordpress Themes, web application icons, wallpapers, illustrator tutorials etc. Well Nick La, the man behind N. Design Studio just released a new blog with killer design called Web Designer Wall. According to his sayings the N. Design Studio will remain as it is and will be used as a porfolio website while the new blog will cover issues like web design, tech articles etc. I trully enjoyed the really unique template for Wordpress. Check it out and don't forget to subscribe to his feeds!



Web Designer Wall by N. Design Studio

Veer: Exploring the Type City

Here is another flash website for you! The guys at Veer got a pretty prototype idea for a font catalog. They created a "world of typography" and simply named it "Type City". Just use the arrows to navigate and view the font samples!