Before the rise of infographics, Fritz Kahn turned scientific facts into stunning surreal illustrations. Born in 1888, German scientist, doctor, and author Fritz Kahn was one of the grandfathers of modern data visualization. Learn more about Kahn’s new 390-page miracle of human imagination at www.fastcompany.com/.
Designer of ideas
Yves Béhar is a designer, entrepreneur, and sustainability advocate. He works for companies looking for future departure, change, transformation. Béhar is the founder and principal designer of Fuseproject, an award-winning industrial design and brand development firm. He's also Chief Creative Officer of the wearable technology company Jawbone.
In 2011, the Conde Nast Innovation and Design Awards recognized him as Designer of the Year. His clients have included Herman Miller, PUMA, MINI, See Better to Learn Better, General Electric, Swarovski, Samsung, and Prada.
Photograph by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson
Japan’s most influential creative
Tadanori Yokoo is one of Japan's most most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. Born in 1936, Yokoo’s style was forged in the late 1960s when he became interested in the mysticism and psychedelia. His multi-layered commercial work was intensely autobiographical and attuned to 60s pop culture. In the late 1960s, Yokoo achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word & Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Four years later, MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work organized by Mildred Constantine.
Font Face V
Light, Medium and Bold Brandon Grotesque were used to illustrate Bleary-Eyed Brandon.
Brandon Grotesque is a sans serif font family designed by Hannes von Döhren in 2009/10. Influenced by the geometric-style sans serif faces that were popular during the 1920s and 30s, the six weights plus matching italics are based on geometric forms.
In 2011 Hannes von Döhren received the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club New York for Brandon Grotesque.
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The latest in a series of Helpful Creative infographics for select What-If Numbers posts.
How to Survive Winter in New York
The following story is by artist Lindsay Mound. Tapestry is an interactive reading App for iPhones and other mobile devices. Her work for them showcases hand lettering, illustration and sometimes an entertaining sense of humor.
See how storytelling is evolving at TAPESTRY.COM. It's simple: tap to move forward in a story. There’s no going back, so take your time – that’s the whole point!
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The latest in a series of Helpful Creative infographics for What-If Numbers.
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Sources: What-If Numbers and Open Clip Art
Font Face IV
The Sánchez Regular font was used to illustrate Surprising Sánchez.
Designed by Daniel Hernández, Sánchez is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif or Egyptian. It bears a strong resemblance to the iconic Rockwell, but with rounded edges — offering contrast and balance to the square structure. Both regular and Italic variants are available for download free of charge.
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Infographic of the day
Here’s some social media stats that may surprise you from likeable media.
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The latest infographic from Helpful Creative for a What-If Numbers post.
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Sources: What-If Numbers and Tesla Owners Manual
“I’ll know what I want when I see it.”
Irish ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more took time out to dress up their favorite worst feedback from clients, transforming quotes that would normally give any creative pause, into a diverse collection of beautiful posters.
Font Face III
Albertus Extra Bold was used to illustrate King Albertus. It’s the latest in a series of font face visualizations brought to you by Helpful Creative.
Albertus is a glyphic, serif typeface designed by Berthold Wolpe in the period 1932 to 1940. The face began as titling capitals and was modeled to resemble letters carved into bronze. Eventually a lowercase roman was added, and later an italic, which is distinct for its narrow character set. Albertus has slight glyphic serifs.
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Art of the Automobile
Check out this NYC exhibition and auction celebrating some of the rarest and finest motorcars in design history.
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A new infographic for a What-If Numbers post.
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Sources: What-If Numbers and Earth Observatory
Font Face II
Just in time for Halloween, Spooky Canter is another creative font face visualization brought to you by Helpful Creative. The Canter light typeface was used in all caps and condensed. The entire Canter font family by Christopher J. Lee is available for download at Font Fabric.
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Apple’s secret retail weapon
Sam Grobart reviews the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology used by the Apple iBeacon and its potential retail importance.
Designed for short distances (about 150 feet or less), BLE enables your phone to announce its presence to other devices in range in an extremely power-efficient way. With iBeacon, any iOS 7 device becomes a potential BLE beacon, already in place in every new and updated iPhone and iPad. Retailers can make their spaces iBeacon-friendly by purchasing dedicated beacons, like the $99 three-pack from Estimote.
Creative Spark: Title Case
Known to many as type nerds, Jessica Hische and Erik Marinovich formed Title Case in a shared studio in San Francisco. Title Case is a business and workshop dedicated to the love of letterform.
Both Jessica and Erik talk about the importance of just looking at type — to learn and to practice each day. It’s an inspiring video on how one earns the title of artisan in their chosen craft with a pure love for what they do.
Life Insurance Ownership
Opportunities abound for the savvy marketer who sees the glass half full.
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Font Face I
In the truest sense, graphic design is the art of communicating, stylizing, and visual problem-solving through the use of type and image. I wanted to self-assign my own visual problem to solve. Create a face using only Adobe Garamond.
Garamond /ˈɡærəmɒnd/ is the name given to a group of old-style serif typefaces named after the punch-cutter Claude Garamont (c. 1480–1561). Garamond is widely considered among the most legible and readable serif typefaces in print.
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John Maeda: Designing for simplicity
John Maeda is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, academic, and author. His work in design, technology and leadership explores the area where the fields merge. John is the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. His entertaining TED.COM talk from 2007 is an oldie but goodie.
