The Illust Are: The Wednesday Are

8.22.2007

The Wednesday Are

'When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.’ — Eric Hoffer

Type City
Amazing flash site where the town is made up of different typographic sets. Reminds me a little of Bembo's Zoo. Beautiful stuff, not only is the site incredibily designed and thought out, but the fonts themselves are well designed as well. A must see.

Yves Peters
"That’s what exasperates me about those recurring “Which five fonts couldn’t you do without?” threads at the Typophile General Discussions forum. Always the same old faces! As if there wasn’t anything decent released in the last five years. It’s just like people who still pretend The Beatles are the greatest band on Earth and artists stopped producing good music in the seventies. No way! We are living exciting times, with experimentation, innovation and cross-pollination producing thrilling music and typefaces. Of course there’s a lot more rubbish as well, but the good stuff is really good. Who needs Gill Sans when you have Bliss? Garamond when you have FTF Merlo? DIN when you have Sophisto? Sabon when you have MvB Verdigris? Helvetica when you have Parisine? Futura when you have Neutraface?"

Top 40 Magazine Covers
"On October 17, 2005, the 40 greatest magazine covers of the last 40 years were unveiled at the 2005 American Magazine Conference (AMC) in Puerto Rico, by Mark Whitaker, Editor of Newsweek and President of American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), and AMC Chairman Evan Smith, Editor of Texas Monthly."

Headphone Tape Measure
An Idea so simple and good it hurts.

Bring Em Back
WK finally makes political commentary with Bring em Back.

Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #5
"With this issue, we look at how cultural production (in art, music, speech, writing, interventions, video, and everyday life) attempt to create culturally based alternatives to oppression and war. Within the context of community and grassroots movements creating meaning for their participants and for broader society, again The Journal looks for ways to create counter-narratives and progressive social movements from the bottom up."