Font Friday – June 25
Dear TGIF, I know we haven't been friends for more than a year. You reminded me too much of Full House, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters and a restaurant chain. And I'm agnostic. Sorta. We just weren't working out. //Read More
Font Friday – June 18
There are two types of graphic designers in this world - those who hate Comics Sans and those who hate Comic Sans even more. Poor little Comic Sans is reviled by most designers yet is universally loved by the general public. Like Uggs, Crocs and trucker hats it falls in the category of things made for a very specific purpose used instead in ALL contexts and loved by the masses for it. //Read More
Font Friday – June 11
Today's post is alpha-chic - 26 typographic chairs designed by Roeland Otten. These ABChairs are literally an alphabet to sit on, or if you're like me, a life-size game of Boggle. //Read More
Grads: IDEA 2010
Every year, the Capilano College IDEA program produces great talent. The IDEA program is for Illustration/Design: Elements & Applications probably the program I would choose to apply to if I were at least half as talented as these students!! //Read More
Font Friday – June 4
Like music, fonts fall into the dangerous pit of intellectual property, licensing and royalty issues. We purchase fonts for all of our card designs, monograms and wedding invites here at IKIWISI, but consider it a splurge for us. So over the years, we've bookmarked our favourite sites for FREE fonts. //Read More
Font Friday – May 28
Custom typefaces are nothing new but this brings personalization to a whole new level. A work in progress for designer Mary Huang, she's in the midst of creating a a typographic photobooth that will translate your facial dimensions into a type design. //Read More
Font Friday – May 21
Veer recently released THE latest masterpiece by Alejandro Paul - Brownstone. I absolutely fell in love with this typeface the moment I opened my email newsletter. //Read More
Font Friday – May 14
Some of my favourite fonts right now all come from the same foundry: Sudtipos. I'm in love with bold, retro-ish scripts and Sudtipos has a fine collection. But they also do great non-script fonts too and this week, I'll highlight five of my favourite. //Read More
Font Friday – April 30
As I said last week, there as SO MANY choices out there for a nice wedding script font. I'm starting on a new wedding invite design project for my friend Kelly so searching for these great fonts at the same time has been good timing. I've known Kelly forever, since we were in the same class in Grade 7! //Read More
Font Friday – April 23
I get that not everyone puts as much thought into wedding invites as I do. I'm an admitted wedding invite snob. I do understand that for budget reasons, many brides want to design it themselves. But please, for the love of design gods, consider fonts other than Monotype Corsiva, Brush Script or Mistral! //Read More
