Hasta La Ideas

“We left two cameras on New York City Benches. What happened next?” Smitten/Cup of Jo

The Tweed Run: 150 stylish cyclists take to the streets of London. Photos here and here, via Perpeduum.

Bloody brilliant!

Deidre and I both agree that there are moments on this blog that we wish we could freeze and admire for a while. Some of my favourite posts have just looked so pretty, or they had lovely flow from one to the next, or they were personally important (such as this week’s announcement of UPPERCASE magazine.) However, the attraction and strength of a blog is its steady stream of updates: it lives in the moment. And so we’ll continue to splash inspirations on these scrolling, virtual pages.

Within the magazine, I aspire to create moments of perfection, preserved in print. Each issue will be a beautiful object, representing months of heartfelt, earnest work. We hope that our magazine will become a tangible part of your lives.

And now, here’s some inspiration for this Thursday morning:

Michael Bierut (Design Observer) has been capturing moments of thought part of his daily routine: sketching ideas and taking notes faithfully since 1982. “Together, these well-worn books create a history of my working life that spans three decades.”

These crazy fellows have decided to create one typeface a day for the month of January, available for free download.

“Type.fwis.com is for me to test myself and see if I can design a new typeface every day for 31 days. You will be able to critique me and download an EPS of the file. This will likely end in tears and embarrassment for myself. I will not convert any of these to real fonts as I have neither the time nor the knowledge. For the true-blue typography geeks who are ATypI members and are deeply offended by my blunders, I am quite sorry and you should feel free to hurl insults and old issues of Emigre.”

{Discovered via Design Work Life.}