Kindle Fire Ad

Here is the new Kindle Fire ad. When I was watching TV & first saw this I immediately thought of our Typography class because this was also right around the time we were presenting for project one, History of Typography. In this video I thought they did an excellent job generally showing how type has evolved throughout the years into the technology we have today like the Kindle Fire, which you can read on. Font has always had the sam purpose which is to have someone read whatever you are scribing.   Present day there are so many ways to just write and it's so easy to get large amounts of people to read what you want them to. It is highlighting how important just typography, words and our language is so important. 

Walt Disney

I was trying to look for the Disneyland font typographic manual, but Matthias reminded me that it will probably not be on the internet and I'd most likely have to pay for it because Disney is the BEST COMPANY EVER! (: Anyway, I stumbled upon this video. I loved how every word that Walt Disney himself said was perfectly illustrated just in the font and the color that they used. Since we are working on project 3, I am thinking about the lable and the type of font they use. I love the Disneyland the font. It is so iconic, just like how I talked about in my first blog entry. I hope one day Disney font will be on my business card!

Rare Book Room

Today we went to the rare book room. It was after Matthias and I had already presented our History of Typography presentation for the class. When I saw the book produced from the Kelmscott Press I immediately knew that it was made there. I could tell from the designs in the book that it was Morris' designs. It was cool to see the actually printing because it was one of the topics that I had to research. Finding information on the Kelmscott Press was pretty easy compared to the other topics we needed to research and after looking at the original I can see why. The pages were even more beautiful when I saw them in person. I can't believe that he designed every book like that. Morris loved Medieval art and you can tell from his designs that the 15th century is what inspired him.

I really enjoyed going to the rare book room. Although I felt that I had to be very very careful about things that I touched. I think that going there was a good experience because I probable wouldnt have gone in otherwise.

This piece struck to me because these are all real places from the birds eye view from the satelites. It is called Google Maps Typography because these pictures are taken from google maps. You can make out every letter although they are man mad places. What if this was done on purpose? I think that it is more amazing that they are made on accident and just found. This makes me think that font isn't just about a formula or every letter looking exactly the same. Font can be beautiful even when you're not trying to write with it.

INK

I've always wanted to get a tattoo, but I never knew what I wanted. I knew that I wanted a quote or a word, buy another factor that I always thought of was what kind of font would I use. I know that sounds stupid because it is a tattoo, but if i am permanently inking my body, I want the font to show my kind of personality as well. I love the cursive used in this tattoo. It doesn't seem to handwritten where it looks like I just wrote in on my body myself, but it looks like a sweet font, small and cute. I want a font that shows my personality.

It amazes me that one font can be so recognizable and used for years! Disneyland was first opened it 1955 and guessing by the price on the ticket, I would think that this ticket book would be around that same time frame. SO much has changed since then. Not only is there a second park next to disneyland but it is $100 to go for ONE day. Compare that to 3.20! Although that is different the font they used for Disneyland is still the same on the ticket you get today. This is one out of two signature disney fonts. They haven’t changed it since then either. This font is Disney’s personality and although it is not owned by Disney, it will always be associated with it. Reason 1938423987492 why i love Disney so much!