Here's a piece from Puck Magazine (1881), featuring emoticons! Only 100 years ahead of their time. (courtesy Comic Book Resources)

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/10/20/emoticons-from-the-1880s/

Hi, this brilliant pop-up alphabet book i blogged about last Spring is shipping now.

Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/ABC3D-Marion-Bataille/dp/1596434252/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I3U37DNSD1VSDQ&colid=1S96BZ92JRMMK

Jason C

You have to see this, a pop-up alphabet book, with some typographic sensibility to the movement of the letters:

http://drawn.ca/2008/03/21/abc3d-incredible-pop-up-alphabet-book/

This is a mock-up, its supposed to be released in October 2008.

Jason C

OK, but the odd catch is you download a digital version of the book. So considering the book is about letterpress, that's... strange, I guess.

But Anyway, on Wowio, you can get it here:
http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=3497

I caught this on the Drawn! blog site:
here's what the Star Wars (ep IV) titles might look like if they were done by Saul Bass:
http://drawn.ca/2008/03/03/if-saul-bass-did-the-titles-for-star-wars/

It's pretty funny.

Jason C

Here's an image of the front of the U.S.S. Enterprise, from the upcoming Star Trek film.

The Federation now is sporting Microgramma Bold Ext in all it's glory:

http://movies.aol.com/movie-photo/star-trek-new-enterprise-cast-photos

Tauba Auerbach is a San Francisco based artist who uses letterforms in many of her works, with intriguing results. Check out this link, and scroll down about 6 rows, there's some interesting pen and ink work.

http://www.taubaauerbach.com/works.html

Unfortunately, she's also done some design with fields: optical patterns that border on painful in some cases, so portions of her web site might be objectionable to some.

Jason C

Zoo Sells Gorilla's Art On eBay

I wonder what would happen if we gave them FontLab and a really big Wacom tablet.

Jason C