We have already established that I have a special place in my heart for ampersands. So, of course I was excited to see this morning from Veer that a new typeface with 400 ampersands was created to raise money for Doctors Without Borders to benefit relief efforts in Haiti.
In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Society of Typographic Aficionados issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities to participate in Font Aid IV. The result was Coming Together, an OpenType font that contains over 400 ampersand glyphs designed by participants from around the world.
All proceeds from the sale of the typeface go to Doctors Without Borders, in support of continuing relief efforts in Haiti. Get it here for just $20.
Here are some of my favorites from the collection:
This beautiful portrait of John Lennon is one of 28 Excellent Examples Of Typography Portraits
I think the sign of a true designer is someone who can appreciate a beautiful ampersand. If you don’t know what an ampersand is, I’m sorry we are going to have to break-up. You may not know but there’s a whole cult following around the love of ampersands. Today I discovered yet another blog (well tumblog to be exact) dedicated to … you guessed it, my curvy friend!
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There are a multitude of Best Of 2009 posts circulating around the interwebz lately. The following (ridiculous) video comes from GeekSugar’s Top 10.
Ashton Kutcher Explains Twitter to Kelly Ripa
The king of Twitter appeared on Live! With Regis and Kelly earlier this year, and explained the inner workings of the social networking platform to Kelly. Hilarity ensued.
Human Calendar
Fun photo project of a bunch of people that make up today’s date. via GeekSugar
I’m a fan of Foursquare (and GoWalla) and pretty much any location based social network. Today I found Where Do You Go (via Steven Ray), which creates a heat map of my Foursquare checkins.
Checkout my map!
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