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sunday newsletter a designboom.com publication January 2012, 08 you may want to submit a design mail@designboom.com every sunday we choose a topic from the vast archive of designboom, today: alphabet --- ice typography by nicole dextras published 01.03.12 embracing the cold climate of her native canada, the graphic designer has developed a series of installations comprised of larger than life texts spelled out in block letters made from ice. read more --- skyrill design: fluid type font published 07.22.11 the dynamic typeface was created using 3D max and realflow to simulate the forming and destruction of each letter via splashing, exploding fluids. read more --- cloud collective: towards a poetic morphology published 06.19.11 the temporary installation creates an landscape indoors, composed of sculptured alphabet letters that together form the text of robert walser's poem 'oppressive light'. read more --- MVRDV: alphabet building published 05.20.11 looking to become an incubator of creative ideas, the design features a highly graphic exterior facade, composed simply of twenty-five letters of the alphabet. read more --- alessandro canepa + andrea paulicelli: fontable published 05.11.11 a series of tables whose tops are represented by alphanumerics. the entire alphabet in both upper and lower case versions, along with the numbers 0 through 9 are available. read more --- oded ezer: skype type published 02.25.11 for the type face oded ezer invited friends to each write one letter and share it with him over skype. the request caught on and soon he had people he didn't know contributing to the project. read more --- alessandro di prisco: letters published 02.12.11 have you ever noticed that children learn things more easily when they do it in a pleasant way, like through playing? alessandro di prisco's 'letters' furniture series helps familiarize children with the alphabet. read more --- typeface t-shirts by masashi kawamura + itaru yonenaga published 11.07.10 in the world of typography, terms such as typeface, character, body etc., are used to describe the form of a letter. the reason why they use these types of expressions is because they are closely related to a human body. this set of t-shirts have been designed to express the silhouette of 5 famous typefaces: helvetica, caslon, baskerville, courier and cooper black. read more --- 'red list with red fonts' by attila ngyn - endangered species graphic design competition published 11.03.10 this shortlisted entry consists of a new font style that integrates graphic representations of 26 threatened animal species with a letter of the alphabet. read more --- dirk schchter: typomaps published 10.28.10 combining the elements of geography and typography, this double-sided poster uses helvetica neue black condensed font to communicate the world in words. read more --- joseph egan + hunter thomson: anamorphic typography published 08.04.10 these large scale typographic structures only become legible when viewed from a specific point of view. read more --- andrew byrom: letter-box-kite + st. julian published 07.08.10 the experimental 'letter-box-kite' design is a series of 26 typographic kites fabricated from thin nylon fabric and fiberglass poles. read more --- andrew byrom: grab me + interior lights published 07.07.10 the work of andrew byrom deals with three-dimensional typography whereby he uses unfamiliar applications of materials and processes as a way of forcing himself to find new forms. read more --- the ABCs of branding by jason dean published 12.21.09 jason dean created a composition of alphabets with logos of famous brands of all time, printed in posters. read more

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