A Year In Caps. 2012 Typographic Calendar printed on Sustainably-Harvested Birch Wood.

Heather Lins, whose unique pillows and homewares I have previously featured, has designed a calendar for 2012 which celebrates typography.

Each month is printed on sustainably-harvested wood veneers and makes a great gift for any graphic designer or typophile.




• Twelve 5" × 7" birch veneer cards
• Tied with a pretty ribbon.
• Gift tag and reusable gift bag included.
• Digitally printed.
• U.S. holidays.

By Heather Lins Home.
$32 USD, Buy it here.

Veer's Second Fun Font Film Is Out!

"Ready, Typeset, Go!" is the second in a series of retro science films about fonts, from Veer. In this installment, the narrator explains how simple adjustments like font size and technical tricks like kerning can make great fonts look even better.



Learn more about Veer and see the first font film here.

Our Fonts, Our Friends. A Film From the Folks At Veer.

Veer has just released this fun animated short film to market their font selection. "Our Fonts, Our Friends" is the first in a series of retro science films from the stock photo, image, illustration and typeface company. In this installment, the narrator discusses font styles, how to choose your font, and where to find an endless supply of affordable fonts.



Veer is one of my favorite type and image houses for their style, selection, attitude and design. Photography, illustration and all sorts of fonts are available to purchase and download. In addition to a wonderful array of type styles, they offer a few stylish gifts for fontophiles, lots of fun free images, wallpapers, fonts, book and more.



above: Ampersand cufflinks and Font coffee mug are both available online at Veer



Veer

House Industries Designs Hand-Printed Eames Tables For Herman Miller Asia-Pacific

The very hip type foundry House Industries has teamed up with Herman Miller to produce a limited edition series of 80 Eames wire-base tables.



The Eames wire based low tables (LTR) include letters, numbers and ornaments from their Eames Century Modern font collection.



Each tabletop is hand-printed by House’s own David Dodde in their Grand Rapids, Michigan factory, returned to Herman Miller for assembly then packaged in a special House Industries-designed wooden crate.



Andy Cruz originally showed sketches of a printed LTR table to Yoko Sasaki, Marketing director of Herman Miller Japan, during his trip to Tokyo in 2010. Soon after House Industries got busy with the Eames Office and Herman Miller in Zeeland, Michigan to bring the sketches to life. As with most House Industries projects, they tried their best to make the packaging for this limited edition something you wouldn’t throw away once the table was removed. I believe they succeeded.


Photography by Carlos Alejandro

Forty tables will be available in Hong Kong at the Herman Miller Reach event on September 16, 2011 and 40 will be available at the House Industries exhibition at the Herman Miller Tokyo Showroom on October 27, 2011.

Reach Hong Kong
September 16, 2011
Hong Kong Design Institute
3 King Ling Road,
Tseung Kwan O,
N.T., Hong Kong
http://reach.hermanmillerasia.com/

House at Herman Miller Japan
Opening Reception: October 27, 2011
Herman Miller Japan Showroom
Marunouchi MY PLAZA
2-1-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
http://www.hermanmiller.co.jp/

information courtesy of House Industries

Greeking For Groovy Art Directors. Hipster Ipsum - Artisanal Filler Text.

Lorem ipsum dolor got you down? No more, now there's Hipster Ispum, a text generator that infuses trendy words into your placeholder text. They offer two styles, Hipster with a shot of Latin and Hipster, neat.



An example of Hipster with a shot of Latin:

Homo mlkshk banh mi brunch biodiesel. Lo-fi echo park terry richardson 3 wolf moon, scenester gluten-free fanny pack. Brooklyn master cleanse locavore tattooed terry richardson freegan, homo gluten-free. Mixtape fanny pack banh mi put a bird on it. Quinoa vinyl thundercats wolf 8-bit you probably haven't heard of them. Helvetica lo-fi salvia 8-bit mustache hoodie 3 wolf moon iphone, lomo banh mi. High life mcsweeney's food truck ethical, jean shorts craft beer portland stumptown synth aesthetic retro artisan lo-fi VHS.



an example of Hipster Neat:

Fap mixtape trust fund retro. 8-bit cliche thundercats artisan PBR. Portland raw denim thundercats keytar helvetica dreamcatcher. Wolf photo booth thundercats tofu echo park, 8-bit mlkshk VHS master cleanse bicycle rights. Synth keytar craft beer, VHS marfa fixie american apparel gluten-free mustache. Cosby sweater skateboard before they sold out homo food truck. Quinoa mcsweeney's organic tumblr, letterpress dreamcatcher PBR.



Like other greeking generators, you can choose the number of paragraphs, choose between the two styles and voila.... filler for your layouts with a hint of hip.



Try it yourself.



A special shout out to one of my favorite artists, Danny Heller, who brought this gem of a find to my attention.

Bookends For Letter Lovers. A-Z Cast Concrete Bookends by Jochen Korn.

The “A-Z” bookend series from the designer Jochen Korn are manufactured from special concrete and weighing roughly 2.5 kg each so they not only provide a charming optical frame for supporting light books and magazines, but offer reliable support to illustrated books, encyclopaedia and heavy collections of books.




Cast as six different bookends, each featuring four letters:








The special sophisticated cast procedure used to work the concrete material makes each bookend is unique, with a surface structure that differs slightly from all the others. The bookends are mounted on a stainless steel base with a non-slip rubber underside that protects surfaces.

The Red Dot Museum shop sells the “ABCD” and “WXYZ” for 49,90 € each.
Buy them here.

You can also purchase the entire set of all six from Korn. Learn more here.
Or contact Korn directly:(05 61) 45 06 51 03

Designer: Jochen Korn
Versions: “ABCD” and “WXYZ”
Material: Special concrete, stainless steel, sponge rubber
Size: 215 mm x 70 mm x 70 mm
Weight: 2.5 kg
Manufacturer: Korn Produkte, Kassel, German

The bookends come in a high-quality and sturdy gift box.

ABC Bookcase - Letters and Numbers Modular Cube Storage from Saporiti

The ABC bookcase (libreria ABC) is a fun and functional series of modular storage cubes shaped as letters and numbers designed by Eva Alessandrini and Roberto Saporiti for the Italian furniture design firm Saporiti.


above: I so gotta get me these, don't you think?

You can assemble any number of the sophisticated looking cubes to form words or sentences as in the examples of the "Read your book case","News" and "XOXO" compilations shown below:





The cubes are available in three sizes and a number of interior wood stains and exterior colors.


Nicely designed, the modular storage works in any style room for children or adults. For pricing or more information about the ABC Libreria, contact Saporiti here

Fontable Letter & Number Tables Spell Out C-O-O-L.

Designers Alessandro Canepa & Andrea Paulicelli of Italy's Mamadesignlab have created Fontable, a collection of alphanumeric metal tables.



The new concept in modular elements brings a revolution to the world of furnishing accessories, building upon a graphic matrix to turn it into an item for interior design.





FONTABLE are alphanumeric elements reproducing letters from A to Z in lower and upper case and numbers from 0 to 9 which become modular tables. Each element acquires three dimensions and personality and can be played around with, to customize ever changing and dynamic shapes.





Tables are made in steel sheet with lacquered varnishing in white, black and red, with legs in anodized aluminum of adjustable height allowing to overlap table surfaces. Special finishing and further color variations are available on demand.

Produced in a small atelier outside of Milan under the supervision of Alessandro & Andrea the tables are made from steel sheet with lacquered varnishing in white, black and red. Legs are in anodized aluminum and are height adjustable, allowing overlap of table surfaces.

You can purchase the tables from Outdoorz Gallery.

Kubrick Remasters, Graphic Art Posters Inspired By Stanley Kubrick

It's a Stanley Kubrick day today on the blog. If you didn't read the post prior to this one on the amazing retrospective of the legendary director's work, please do. It's what inspired this post of the fabulous graphic artwork of Nick McLellan.

A companion to the exhibition at La Cinémathèque, Kubrick et le Web is a site which showcases the best of web creation on Kubrick, a contest in partnership with Dailymotion.

There are so many talented artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers out there that it is almost hard to believe. But one look at the numerous pieces of work inspired by Kubrick and his movies, you will have no doubt. One of the standouts on the site is the work of artist and designer Nick McLellan. His Kubrick Remasters Series is beautifully conceived of and executed.

Take a look:







See more of Nick's work here on Deviant Art