Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with typography
06/30/2011
Atlantic Records featured on Typekit business page
Typekit has featured Atlantic Records on their business subscriptions page along with Twitter, The New York Times, Martha Stewart and others. At Atlantic we’ve been using typekit since the private beta was floating around a few years ago, and within a few months were using the service on all of our sites. View the page [...]
06/01/2010
Seen a font and want to know what it is? Check out What The Font.
Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the [...]
05/25/2010
The Downtown Fiction Website Launch
Today we launched a new website for Photofinish Records band The Downtown Fiction. The site was designed by Edith Levin, project managed by Jeremy Kutner and built buy the WMG Direct to Fan team. It may be a one page website, but we have a lot of great features like Facebook Like buttons, Twitter @anywhere [...]
04/20/2010
Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica
Fontfeed.com has a great article on Helvetica and it’s alternatives, reviewing several fonts that have a similar clean feel to Helvetiva without feeling so repetetive. Read the full article here.
12/22/2009
Best and worst logo redesigns of 2009
Under Consideration, a top blog focusing on logo redesigns, has realeased it’s list of the top 12 best and worst new identities of 2009. Each entry shows the new marks juxtaposed with the old with comments by both the author of the blog and readers. A great recap of new logos as well as some [...]
10/22/2009
Type on the Web
Smashing Magazine has a great new article on options for typography on the web. It covers javascript image replacement, Flash image replacement and the use of actual fonts on the web through new services like Typekit. Check out the article.
08/14/2009
Hype For Type
Hype for Type is, not surprisingly, a website dedicated to promoting up and coming type designers. What may be surprising to those who aren’t already visiting the site regularly is the depth of catalogue here, how easy it is to find what you want, and the reasonable prices. Right now they have a pretty good [...]
07/28/2009
Font By Toyota
An amazing video on the Toyota site where a group of interactive artists used motion tracking, a car and an empty warehouse to create a new font. The car was tagged with four different color coded trackers and used an overhead camera to convert its motion into shapes. A custom piece of software then converted [...]
04/26/2008
sIFR
We are using sIFR on a few of our sites, and people seem to be asking about it a lot recently. A short description and links below. sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that [...]
