Gearfuse

Despite popular belief, graphic designers need to shower too. They don’t just shed their skin every few weeks like the text books might have you believe. Even if many of them live and breathe typography, there comes a time when you have to put the fonts to rest so you can continue other life functions, such as sleeping and showering.

Typography nuts no longer need to dread the wasted time of a shower. Typography Soap provides the type addict with some much needed debossed type. You know that weird fantasy you’ve always had about literally showering in typography, well here’s your chance. Typography Soap is now available for pre-order.

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The alphabet is so much fun. People love playing around with typography and lettering almost as I love “playing with my dinghy.” And by “playing with my dinghy,” I mean “flogging the walrus.” And by “flogging the walrus” I mean “spanking the monkey.” And by “spanking the monkey” I mean masturabation.

And how do I pleasure myself, you are almost positively asking yourself? By starring, luckily enough, at sexy typographical gadgets. The Radio Radio is a radio that says Radio. So on and so forth. Rinse and repeat. More after the jump jump.

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These fonts were created by tracing over the Helvetica font with different textures. Said textures included toothpaste, tomato paste and hair gel. Fancy!

for their project ‘fresh fonts’ the dutch collective autobahn drew the typeface helvetica using
toothpaste, tomato ketchup and hair gel. they then used these experiments to create the
digital typefaces ‘heldentica’ , ‘tomatica’ and ‘gelvetica’, which you can now download for
free from autobahn’s site.

The best things in life are free, after all. Be sure to check out the photos documenting the process as it’s a sweet glimpse into the world of graphic design and typography. After the jump, a few choice photos and a link.
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Phil Torrone over at MAKE is famous for laser-etching designs into electronics such as laptops. Now a small company called Little Factory has one-upped him by producing laser cut scarves that form words out of tiny letters. Versions are available with both uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as a numbers piece.

While I’m not sure if these are the warmest scarves in existence, they’re certainly the most unique I’ve ever seen. I can’t find a price on these so they’re either hard-to-get or one-of-a-kind pieces. Either way, they’re sure to turn heads no matter what hipster city you’re walking through.

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