Hiphopsideproject

Seeing as I didn’t do a good stuff post last week (‘cos of kitten preparation more than anything), I thought I’d bring you a bit of a extended edition this week. Enjoy!

• Next time I’m in New York I really want to check out this new park that’s just opened. The High Line was a disused overhead rail section in Manhattan (Chelsea area) that some clever people have turned into a public park! What an amazing concept!!

• These chanel pumps are hot. Not too sure about the mustard colour, though…

• I’m not a poetry reader, but I could really get into it if the book covers looked like this… I know, shh. Books/Covers & all that.

• Woah… this stuff is almost enough to give you a typogasm! Lovely looking things.

• Now that bbq season is upon us, I have GOT to get me know of these babies!

• Nice to see some good T-shirts from the UK. Sad to see a print shop :( I miss printing :(… soon, soon.
• Nice little write up about my favourite city, Manchester, on design*sponge. It’s fun to read about some of my favourite spots! Ah, Manchester. I lived there for my 3 years at University and Adam still studies there, but I miss it :*(

• The D&AD awards were held last night, you can see the full list of winners here. My favourites include the poke balloonacy balloon race (which hiphop took part in back in the day!) and the royal mint coins (above).

During a bored half hour today I designed the label for our christmas preserve mission. Here is it…

Font is Sketched Rockwell (a free font from dafont), very Juno don’t you think? Anyway, I like it. I’ll be jigging it around for the labels that will go on our sweet goods and home brew stuff :D Making stuff is FUN kids!

If you’re anything like me you’ll love this super simple site. copypastecharacter.com has a front page spread of your highly used, easily forgotten symbols. No longer will you have to route in the footers of random websites to find the trademark symbol, or have to google ‘sideways 8 infinity thingy’.

A great resource I found earlier today, Fontstruct. A free online front creator and editor! There’s already some really cool fonts available there that people have designed, I can’t wait to try it out for myself!

Here’s a link to a great post on designerside.com listing 15 great photoshop tutorials centred around typography. Can’t wait to try some of these out!

This is definitely one of my favourites, who knew text was so volatile!