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Animated Futura Specimen

by Dan on January 31, 2012

A lovely animated short featuring Paul Renner’s geometrically elegant sans-serif typeface Futura:

(via Nice Type)

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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

by Dan on January 24, 2012

Inspired by the Wizard of Oz, Buster Keaton movies, and a whimsical love of books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is an award-winning 15 minute animated short by William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg and Moonbot Studios:

The film is one of five animated shorts nominated for an Oscar this year,  and there is an interactive version of the story available for the iPad from the app store.

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The Joy of Books

January 9, 2012

After organizing their bookcase at home, Sean Ohlenkamp and his wife Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp have now done a beautiful job of ‘organizing’ the shelves of Toronto independent bookstore Type Books on Queen Street West: Lovely. Tweet

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The Unofficial Adventures of Tintin

October 13, 2011

Animator James Curran has created a wonderful unofficial title sequence for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin , featuring elements from each of the 24 books (love this): (via Quipsologies) Tweet

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Word as Image by Ji Lee

October 11, 2011

Ji Lee, former Creative Director at Google Creative Labs, has created this wonderful animated short to promote his new book Word as Image: The book collects together almost 100 of Lee’s illustrations. Each image is created out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself. Only the graphic components of the letters are used without [...]

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