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Lately, I have been working and playing more with fonts than usual. My appreciation for them has nearly doubled in the past week, and I have to thank no other than the new online technologies that are available to us.
Earlier in the week I made a post on my experience with Typekit, and now I want to mention an amazing company called “The League of Moveable Type”
No more bullshit. Join the revolution.
Caroline and Micah from “A Good Company” are the founders of “The League of Moveable Type” where you’ll find only the most well-made, FREE & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
@font-face is a fairly new addition to web styling, its is a CSS rule that allows you, the designer, to specify the location of font files.
So take a look at their great collection of fonts, and download them for free!
Really enjoying these acrylic surreal typographic works by 26 Characters also known as Michiel van der Born. A painter and lettering artist working and living in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Michiel is also part of the Dstruct Collective www.dstruct.nl
Check out more of his work at http://www.26characters.com/
Welcome to my very first Mixcast! a new feature on the ph7labs blog where I will bring you the latest bands and songs that are on constant repeat on my apple devices. The idea is to offer a monthly mix of tracks along with a Ph7labs cover illustration to everyone who reads the blog.
The main goal is to help spread the word of bands that I am enjoying at the moment. So with out any further delay here is the first Mixcast!
Featuring music by
Drug Rug, Caribou, Neon Indian, The Radio Dept, Born Ruffians, Free Energy, Micachu, Passion Pit, Drink Up Buttercup , Spoon, The xx, 80kidz, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Pantha Du Prince
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What! Get an early listen to the upcoming Gorillaz album “Plastic Beach” before the release date March 9, 2010 on NPR. I can’t believe it’s already been five years since they’re latest release “Demon Days”. As you know i am a huge Gorillaz and Jamie Hewlett fan.
I have been following the Gorillaz since the very beginning 99 or 00s, they’re music and artwork have been a great influence in my work. In fact I was introduced to vinyl toys, for the first time when Kidrobot released the first edition of the Gorillaz characters. (2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel)
Plastic Beach is definitely an interesting listen, the new album has collab work from Snoop Dogg, Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, Mos Def, Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys, Little Dragon, The Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music, and many more.
Image credit to Jamie Hewlett
via a Juxtapoz tweet
Over the weekend I made a few tweaks to the Ph7labs blog, tweaks that only took me less than a hour. Besides adding some new categories to the blog, I began using a service called Typekit.
Typekit is a subscription based service that allows anyone to add real fonts to the web. After reading the short description of what Typekit was all about, it only took me about 10 minutes to get up and running with the service. I was really amazed about how simple it was to add Typekit to my website.
Basically all you need to do, is to simply add 2 lines of code and set up an account over at typekit.com. I chose the Free account, once you have your account set up, all you have to do is follow the directions to pick the Font you would like to use and define which selectors on your site will use this font. And thats it!
It’s the easiest solution I have found for using real fonts on you site, easier than any flash replacement techinique out there. And the best part of it all is that it’s completely legal!
Typekit works with high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries out there.
Try it for yourself!
Hey everyone, it’s been a while since my last post… I am going to try from now on to post more often than usual and I have decided to also start sharing more music with you, which is something that I have been really into my whole life.
Lately I have been hearing lots of great new music, and have been specially addicted to a new track from Caribou called “Odessa” which will be part of the upcoming album “Swim”. Like many people have pointed out Dan Snaith’s voice does sound a lot like Erlend Oye on this track. Swim is due to be out April 20th so make sure to mark your calendars.
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