This was going to be its own post, but I am going to use my recent sitings area to post all interesting web links… so from now on, look to the right for new content, or you can subscribe to my del.icio.us rss feed tagged JB, that’s whats driving the content.

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So, If you don’t know this about me, I really enjoy typography. So with that being said, I wanted to make a simple font, with a straight line and a circle. Thats it. Rules were that I could rotate the line any degree however I could only crop the line and circle at 90 degree […]

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I just recently found this photoblog by Andy Clymer, type designer at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, and really love this Steam picture. Check out his site, for his other photos and buy beautiful fonts from typography.com.

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A few weeks ago I was in a cab with j and finally wanted to know what the deal was with the redesign of the NYC Taxi logo. I insanely asked my cab driver expecting him to go into a design brief about the subject; to no avail. After seeing it for some time, looking […]

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Well, the weekend came and went, and I did not actually don a mustache and stalk Tobias Frere-Jones’ walking tour. Somehow tickets went from not for sale to sold out real quick. However, who needs to go when you have flickr. Here are a few photo sets. More to come as I find […]

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So I just got back from seeing Helvetica at IFC, and I really enjoyed it, with sharp observations by Michael Bierut, the intensity of Erik Spiekermann, and a humorous, and not drunk David Carson just to name a few.
Here are my personal highlights.
-Massimo Vignelli’s studio.
-Lars Müller pointing at Helvetica signs in what looks like a […]

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Lately I have been trying to get into the mindset of classic latin american design (you’d think that would be easy for someone who’s refered to as “Johnny Brazil”). The people over at colour lovers put together a nice color set on peru, and the amazing typographers at typophile put together a great list a […]

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Brendan Dawes relaunches his Saul Bass tribute site… and Typographica is offering up the Hitchcock font found previously on the old version of the site. For more of Saul check out here and here. This video is great as well…
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also check out these other great videos by archie boston on 20 outstanding LA […]

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So I was on quipsologies last night and saw a post from the Creative Review Blog about Ugly design, Super Super is ugly, but ugly on purpose? so does that make good design? I don’t know, it has to be nice to be able to be free and reckless with design. […]

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I was on popurls today and saw a post from del.icio.us about typography in music videos and it got me to thinking about all the great typography I have been seeing in videos lately. (My favorites from the link are Dylan, not new but awesome[make your own here, thanks j.], The Hush Sound, NYC built […]

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