I <3 Type

I’m a huge typography/font fan. I just can’t stop looking at nice typography. It’s like looking at a woman’s fine bosom (notice the italicised ‘like’) for me. I tried
to be good at it, practiced creating some abrigrams for friends, and
designing stuff using free fonts, but I failed at it. So I decided to
just drool over some of the work other people have done.

Here are links to some of the galleries, blogs and images of type that I just needed to share.

http://ilovetypography.com

Awesome title and awesome posts. A blog about typography (duh!). I check it out everyday.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

Another blog. But not just for typography. But their “Free Fonts of
the Month” posts are worth having a look at. And so are their other
posts.

http://www.typographykicksass.com/

Flash experimental site where you type in text, and it gathers type
images from Flickr and displays the text using those images. Really
kicks ass.

And now for a some images:

Comic Sans town map by denzmixed from deviantart.

That’s Comic Sans by the way.. COMIC SANS! There are more nice typography images in his deviantart page.

Spam one-liners Flickr gallery

Awesome idea about using spam email titles for art. Genius!

Ambigrams

Back in highschool, I was addicted to ambigrams. I lost all my links
to galleries of it though, but I still remember two of my favorites.

John Langdon’s gallery

Punya Mishra’s wordplay gallery

Trivia: The main character from “The Da Vinci Code” was ‘based’ on
John Langdon. He made all the ambigrams of the other not-so-famous
book, “Angels and Demons” by the same author. Check out his gallery for
those ambigrams. They will fock your mind.

And last but not least, kinetic typography. My favorite of the bunch.

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Just search for ‘typography’ on YouTube and you will be in Kinetic Type heaven.

Well, that’s it for this post. I have a LOT more to show you guys,
especially in the kinetic typography front, but I need to sleep. Hope
you enjoy this post.

EDIT: I almost forgot! Dropclock. Free screensaver for Windows and Mac OSX.

Check out this demo video.

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[Learn] How to batch resize several images on Mac OSX with iPhoto

Have you ever need or have been asked to resize several images and had to resort to a photo editing software to individually resize those images? Well, it is an effective way of doing that, but what if you had to resize a hundred of them?

Well, today I had to resize 40 photos, and thought that doing it in Photoshop would be crazy, so I did a little research.

Turns out iPhoto has this function. It is indeed very nice and useful.

First you need to import your photos into iPhoto by going [ File > Import to Library... ], then just select your photos or the folder you have your photos in.

After importing,  your photos will be in the “Library” folder of iPhoto, so you have to search for it and sort them into different sub-folders if you want to. Unfortunately, you cant specify a sub-folder while importing. You have to do it afterwards.

Select the photos you want to resize, then go [ File > Export... ]. You will be presented with a dialog box. Choose a format you want to export to (not Original), and click the “Scale images no larger than: ” radio button. Specify the width or height you want, the aspect ratio will be preserved(!). Then click “OK”. Select the directory you want, wait for a few seconds, and voila! Instant resized images, with preserved ratios, at the specified maximum width or height.

Tip: When your images have different aspect ratios (some of them are much longer than others, or wider), select the ones with similar ratios first, export them, and export the longer/wider ones later.

Photoshop Express

This post is mostly just for the sake of posting. But then again, this site is just so cool.

Adobe put up a new site called Photoshop Express.

It’s just like any other photo sharing website for photographers and hobbyists. But there’s a very cool feature to it.

You could edit your photos on a very nice Flash interface. With options from basic color manipulation to very complex image distortion. I’ve only played with it for a few minutes, but it seems like a good and easy way to quickly upload photos while editing them at the same time.

Getting started with AS3.0 with Flash CS3

I am currently reading a tutorial on AS3.0 with Flash CS3 by one of my favorite ActionScripters. I would love to learn it on Flex (the Flash interface sucks), but I just got too comfortable with using objects on stage as instances for the code on AS2.0.
The great thing about this tutorial is that it has comparisons with how it used to be on AS2.0, and shows code on how it is on AS3.0. And so far it is very effective if you have a background in basic ActionScript. Coupled with a video tutorial from Lynda.com I ‘downloaded’, I think I could now completely switch to AS3.0! I just love how similar it is to Java syntactically.

Here’s the tutorial: Getting started with AS3.0 with Flash CS3