Recent Discoveries

Vetica – A Typographic Shooter for iPhone

Arial vs. Helvetica

The primary differences between Arial and Helvetica can easily be seen in the distinguishing characters shown above: Helvetica’s terminal strokes are either horizontally or vertically cut, while those of Arial are slightly angled, the cap G inHelvetica has a spur while Arial does not, the leg of the cap Rs are dramatically different in shape and position, and the overall shapes are more rounded in Arial thanHelvetica.

Source http://fonts.com


Type Sandwiches – Prints by David Schwen

S'more

Yes. I am a sandwich. All these look great. Nice work David.

Source Link http://www.flickr.com


“A star is porn” – Poster by Rétrofuturs

A star is porn

Just like the overall look and feel of this poster by Stéphane Massa-Bidal.

Source http://flickr.com


Soylent Green T-Shirt Lists Your Bodily Ingredients


Nifty t-shirt designed by John Sprengelmeyer; buy it over on TeeFury.

Source http://teefury.com \ Found http://laughingsquid.com/


Redesigning MailChimp with Helvetica and Grids

Quite a breath of fresh air this website redesign from designer, Aaron Robbs. Good looking things can be created with grids and Helvetica, a few nice colours help as well for sure.

Source Link http://blog.mailchimp.com Found on Quipsologies


Kings Speech and Helvetica via @JemStone

Source Link Twitter.com


Vintage Glass Coffee Jar with Helvetica Type

There are always a number of these vintage glass jars on Etsy, some are for tea, flour, sugar etc. Just do a search for Vintage and Helvetica.

Goes to show how one can recycle something so old, apply some black Helvetica type and it takes on a whole new look and feel.

Source Link Etsy.com


Large Wooden Helvetica Letters for your Home by @Hindsvik

Gosh. GIven most of my house is white, something like the black or even natural wood Helvetica letters would look stunning. Each letter costs $125.

Source Link Etsy.com \ Found on Design.org


ABCs Helvetica Print by Finny and Zook on Etsy

11×14 inch print. Printed with archival ink on matte heavyweight archival paper and comes packaged in a resealable cello sleeve for $18.

Source Link Etsy.com


Calculate in Helvetica – calcVetica for iPad

I’m sorry, but as much as I love anything Helvetica, this looks pretty darn fugly. The typography is all kind of wrong.

Source Link Stylishipadapps.tumblr.com


BMW Helvetica

Well gosh, I didn’t know that.

The distinctive, clean black font used to be known as BMW Helvetica, but was changed about three years ago to BMW Type Light, in a refinement barely noticeable to the naked eye.

Source Link Forbes.com


Tweet of the Day on Clusterflock


Source Link Clusterflock.org


the positive posters by @Bisgrafic

Lovely Helvetica project by http://www.bisgrafic.net/.

Source Link Thepositiveposters.com \ Found on Design-milk.com


2 or 3 Things I know about Provo by Experimental Jetset

Source Link Experimentaljetset.nl \ Found On Manystuff.org


Helvetictoc.com

Source Link Helvetictoc.com \ Found on hellotypo.com


TaskPaper HelviticaLove Theme by @JesseGrosjean

Source Link Hogbaysoftware.com


Coronado Surf Prints by @OrangeandPark

David Klinker sent me a link to these fresh surf prints made my OrangeandPark. Some are set in Helvetica, other typefaces are available.

I do like these squared off prints, they tend to look fab on walls.

Source Link http://www.orangeandpark.com/art/p006.shtml


Some Helvetica Wallpapers from @AisleOne

A neat selection of typographic wallpapers over at Aisleone, including some for iPhone etc.

Source Link http://www.aisleone.net/wallpapers/


The Adventures of Helvetica man by @TimoArnall

The many guises and adventures of Helvetica man, Helvetica woman and Helvetica child with Helvetica random persons for good measure.

Source Link flickr.com