Long ago, I used Moveable Type for my other site, so I’m always interested in how it continues to develop. Hearing that MT 4 was out, I headed over and had a look. Oh my word, what a mess! Just take a look at this, then compare with one from Expression Engine, below.

Moveable Type 4:

Expression Engine 1.6:

Not really related to type or illustration, but it comes under the definitions of sculpture and architecture, which is close enough for me.

I found this a while back on pingmag, on an article on chocolate. Unfortunately, like many sites for exhibition spaces, they seem to want to hide all the information from you and expect you to turn up to the thing on a mere hint of a title and a brief synopsis, so no link to more images, background info or what the piece at right is about. Whatever, I like it. I love maps, especially 3D ones and antique ones, like this one of London.

Related to this, I came across a load of great panoramas of Coruscant, the city-wide world from the Star Wars series. I am particularly fond of this one.

I saw this on Serif’s ’What are you currently working on?‘ series. I often set type like that, but given the brands I work with, I rarely have a chance to work with such an ornamental serif type. It’s lovely.

I love the numerals on this, found here. I wonder how much the temptation was to align the bottom of the ‘1’ to the midpoint of the ‘D’?

Caught my eye: An inspirational bit of lettering for (and by) AAD.

I was just looking through the Time piece on The Murals of Philadelphia, and came across this rather wonderful bit of lettering. I love the subtle changes in the colours to differentiate the words and the slight variations in the letterforms and x-height. It’s a really nice piece, I love the faces at the bottom too, but it was the lettering that caught my eye. Also, this one is just wonderful. Go and look at all of them!

This image has been knocking around the hard-drives of my last four computers since I scanned it in. I’ve always admired the typography of it since I found it on the pub table all those years ago. The joys of being type-obsessed, eh?