creative use of typography

http://www.paletteindustries.com/

These are just a few pictures i found on creative use of typography.

http://www.johnpourhome.com

http://littlefactory.com

typographic city posters

The folks over at Ork Design has created typographic city posters of various cities such as Los Angeles, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco.  They actually look very cool and affordable.

amaztype visual search engine

Amaztype.  This has to be one of the coolest visual search engine designed for Amazon Marketplace.  You can search for books, musics, and videos on Amazon.  The search results are populate on the screen and rearrange to fit the word that you search for.  You can then zoom in to a particular item to find out more about it.  It also provide link for you to buy it through Amazon.  This is a really creative way to show products on Amazon.

here is an example of a search for “typography” in the books category

and here is a detail look at a selected item.

here is another example of a search for “Music’

beautiful large scale mural

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I had a chance to travel to Ecuador early this Summer and while touring San Antonio, a small town about a few hours away from Quito, I saw this great large scale mural painting.  It is pretty impressive.

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photos courtesy of James Linehan

where’s Waldo in this pixel town?

I believe this site has been up for a while now, but i just saw it a few days ago and was amazed at how much details was put in to create this pixel town (very large image, will take a lot longer to load on slow connection).