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A picture of 1,000 words.
Wordle takes your website, prose, or drunk-text rant and turns it into customizable art. Shown here: My interpretation of Nervous Acid’s current front page. Personally, I can see a silkscreened poster coming out of this. (via)
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The demise of Scrabulous has been greatly exaggerated.
The first screenshot of the “official” Scrabble Facebook app makes me sad for corporate designers everywhere.
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A collection of typography wallpaper.
Looking for a new desktop the other night, I found this set of almost thirty type-based wallpapers — some better than others, of course, but a diverse selection for your inner font-fetishist.
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Design Within Wal-Mart.
The craziest thing about Wal-Mart’s Stockholm furniture line is not so much that the redneck firearms dealer has entered the affordable modern design market; it’s that I’d actually buy some of it. Also: Wal-Mart’s got a new logo. (via)
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Buy George Nelson's vomit for only $25,000. →
Now, I love me some Nelson. (My apartment is proof.) But this Craigslist ad — for one of the designer’s vintage credenzas — goes beyond the pale of mid-century fetishism when it claims that “there are still bits of Nelson’s puke in the tambour doors, as well as blood on the corner where he hit his head when he lost consciousness.” How he “authenticated” this piece, I’d rather not know.Photo
The Top 10 Most Illegible Metal Logos.
Somewhere in this scribble is the word Xasthur. Or not.
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Now Showing.
As part of an exhibit curated by Wear It With Pride, over forty designers were asked to to reinterpret a cult film poster from the past with no restrictions on color, typeface, or language. These are the results.
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Shepard Fairey is neither blind, nor mute. →
Responding to reports that he’d be blind by the end of the year, Shepard Fairey shares his visual acuity test results: He’s 20/25 in one eye and 20/30 in the other, if you must know.Link
Is Shepard Fairey going blind? →
According to a brief post on Animal New York, the visual artist is “rapidly losing his vision due to a lifelong battle with diabetes” and “could be legally blind by the end of the year.” Whoa. Fairey is diabetic — that much is true. But going blind? I assume the confirmation or denial is forthcoming.Photo
New York City needs a modern subway map.
This print by Massimo Vignelli would make a perfect replacement for the one we have, but I can’t afford the $300 I need to hang it in my foyer. (Times are tough.) P.S: Helvetica! (via)
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A collection of Font Robots.
According to his bio, Jonathan Yule is a Canadian designer “particularly interested in typography, grids and the intertwinement of design and play.” It’s hard to write a personal ad when you’re the man that invented Font Bots. (via)
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