So I was inspired to make this video after watching a great critique from @premodernist_history from a historical perspective. I started thinking about how to answer his good faith question of why simple design is better, and the more I unpacked it, I realised it wasn't so straightforward. Looking forward to a "lively" discussion in the comments section in this one! 00:00 A not-so-alternate reality 01:05 NAVA's "Good Flag, Bad Flag" pamphlet by Ted Kaye is influential for a reason 03:09 Examining the guidelines - Principle 1: Keep It Simple 05:49 Principle 2: Use Meaningful Symbolism 06:20 Principle 3: Use Two to Three Basic Colors 06:36 Principle 4: No Lettering or Seals 07:33 Smart Adaptation Tactics - Streamline, Extract or Remix 09:05 Principle 5: Be Distinctive or Be Related 09:21 Other Considerations and the Point of Design Guidelines 11:32 GFBF Reimagined, Focused on City & State Flag Redesigns 13:31 Building on the legacy of "Good Flag Bad Flag"

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let the guessing games begin! what happened with the paris 2024 pictograms? research / related links here - https://arc.net/folder/A855724C-E8E5-4263-9235-45CBA6951876

also, it's green. i forgot to mention, it's green. also i forgot some image credits: google fonts for the image for monolinear stroke and monotype for the image of high stroke contrast.

in defence of the word "font"

inspired by wisdom kaye (wisdm8 on tiktok). https://www.tiktok.com/@wisdm8/video/7382287766064745759 fonts mention with no particular order: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/albertus-nova-font-monotype-imaging Résistance by A collective. Distributed by velvetyne.fr. https://velvetyne.alwaysdata.net/fonts/resistance/ PicNic by Mariel Nils. Distributed by velvetyne.fr. https://velvetyne.alwaysdata.net/fonts/picnic/ https://www.nan.xyz/fonts/nan-spaceland/ https://www.arrowtype.com/name-sans https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik https://www.type-together.com/eskapade-font https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/eskapade https://ohnotype.co/fonts/digestive https://djr.com/job-clarendon https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/job-clarendon https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Kablammo https://www.vectrotype.com/kablammo

Short video. Hot take. Check out "Horn Please" on vimeo -https://vimeo.com/groups/betterletters/videos/158847126

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Three reasons why Comic Sans was good actually, three reasons why it's time to upgrade with one notable exception. Featuring @ShantellMartin and @ArrowType - check out https://shantellsans.com/ for more details. Thanks to @answerinprogress and @nationsquid for their guest appearances. Check out my newsletter here: https://buttondown.email/linus --- 0:00 Meet Shantell Sans, the new Comic Sans. 0:59 The Origin of Comic Sans 1:54 The Rise - Universal distribution meets universal appeal 3:13 Overexposure - Comic Sans become inescapable 4:39 The Backlash - Comic Sans gets cancelled 5:40 3 reasons to hate Comic Sans 9:05 I have a newsletter. And no sponsor. 9:24 3 reasons Comic Sans is good, actually 9:29 1) Fun & friendly 10:16 Aside - Thank Comic Sans for Calibri? 11:10 2) Easy to use & flexible 12:18 3) Easy to read 13:57 Ripoffs and relatives of Comic Sans 15:14 Why Shantell Sans is different, and 3 ways it's better 15:52 1) Attention to detail 17:44 2) Authenticity 18:41 3) A font for today 19:34 Stop using Comic Sans. Except... 20:05 Comic Sans - a font, a meme, a renaissance 20:51 Sharing a font with the world What are you doing here? Nobody reads the video description! Well, between you and me, Chalkboard has strong "We have Comic Sans at home" energy. --- Selected sources: http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2014/jun/04/comic-sans-creator-vincent-connare https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23508102_The_Sideways_Effect_A_Test_for_Changes_in_the_Demand_for_Merlot_and_Pinot_Noir_Wines https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262375214/from-ascii-art-to-comic-sans/ https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/does-comic-sans-really-help-dyslexic-learners --- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

The first 100 people to use code LINUS at the link below will get 60% off of Incogni: https://incogni.com/linus --- 00:00 Why no tier list? 90% of licenses are mid. 01:04 Design by a standards association subcommittee 02:16 Sponsor: Incogni 04:04 What the AAMVA guidelines say about layout and design 04:58 A hypothetical scenario 6:36 How trading card games use hierarchy of Information 7:42 Understanding the audience (stakeholders) 9:30 Redesigning a better drivers license (for Ash Ketchum) --- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Get an exclusive Surfshark deal! Enter promo code LINUS for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/linus --- 00:00 The Nineties - Syndication turns sitcoms into cash cows 01:39 Family Matters - catchphrases and clichés 03:13 Full House - the squeaky clean family sitcom 04:37 Married with Children - the anti-sitcom 05:30 Friends aka F•R•I•E•N•D•S 07:05 Seinfeld - a show about nothing 08:22 The Nanny - surprise international hit 09:49 Sponsor - Surfshark 10:56 The Simpsons - the 1990s Golden Age 12:07 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - this logo slaps! 13:31 Home Improvement - a logo with some grunt 15:07 Frasier - a touch of class 16:21 TV Show branding today vs back in the day --- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Check out Envato Elements 👉 https://1.envato.market/c/3671954/1159027/4662?subId1=video3 Clip Art was an inescapable part of growing up in the 1990s, but it was more than that. It was a reflection of the technology that shaped the decades between the birth of the PC to the age of the smartphone. Lofi animations by Kai - https://www.youtube.com/@the.spin.doctor --- 0:00 The Tier List of Art 1:23 Analog Clip Art - Volk Clip Books 3:19 Sponsor: Envato Elements 5:14 1984: MacPaint and the Mac ecosystem 8:17 Sidebar: Broadcast Graphics vs Home Computers 9:13 1989: Scanners and Autotrace 12:29 Case Study: Ron & Joe's Art Parts 13:58 1995: CD-ROMs and the Clip Art Collection Wars 18:06 1998: Digital Projectors level up PowerPoint 19:58 Microsoft Goes All in on Clip Art 22:18 The Post-Clipart Age & The Birth of Corporate Memphis 24:27 Reborn or Rebranded? Rightfully reviled? 25:58 No soul, no value? What Clip Art Says About Us. --- Some selected references: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/29786/clip-books-of-line-art-volk-1955 https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartsol/albums/72157711873400486 http://www.macpaint.org/clipart.html https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1989-09-02_122_35/page/n45/mode/2up https://www.tvtechnology.com/opinion/how-quantels-paintbox-revolutionized-tv-graphics-40-years-ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctLAKFsol0 https://www.duarte.com/experts-share-good-ol-days-of-35mm-slides/ https://archive.org/details/clipartsmart00moll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_gE8gQLIc https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/12/02/368060012/microsoft-says-goodbye-to-clip-art --- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/linusboman/ | Editor, researcher or other creative type and potentially want to help with future videos on the channel? Please add your details here! https://forms.gle/n1ihCC3nMkLDT7f67 -- 00:00 Thank you for 100k 01:31 How Martin and I both started on YouTube 04:41 Comparing experiences with making videos 08:41 Comment sections, the annoying and the positive 11:51 Research, writing, recording and editing for YouTube 15:51 Time management and the what makes YouTube time intensive 17:33 Making deep vs shallow content 19:33 Future of YouTube, encouragement for new content creator -- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Check out Envato Elements 👉 https://1.envato.market/c/3671954/1159027/4662?subId1=video2 (since this video was published, free trials have been discontinued). Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/linusboman/ | Editor, researcher or other creative type and potentially want to help with future videos on the channel? Please add your details here! https://forms.gle/n1ihCC3nMkLDT7f67 The villain origin story of Papyrus, the world's second most reviled font. Perhaps the hate is not so deserved? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Featuring the voice talents of: @munecat @NotJustBikes @nativemediatheory @PhilEdwardsInc -- 00:00 I know what you DIDDD!! 00:58 John Roshell, designing a custom Avatar font 01:51 The designer of Papyrus, Chris Costello 02:40 The 1980s, pasteup and Letraset 04:37 Letragraphica and the creation of Papyrus 05:59 The "Instant Lettering" production process 07:32 The 1990s - Office 97, Publisher 98, Papryus goes mainstream 08:22 The power of software bundling 09:04 Mismatched upper and lowercase details 10:41 Two sets of capitals. One awful digital conversion. 12:07 The mainstream appeal of Papyrus 12:49 Sponsor - Envato Elements 14:06 The 2000s and hitting Papyrus saturation 15:10 Organic food, yoga and wellness 16:06 Papyrus and Avatar. Problem 1 - expensive film, cheap font. 16:40 Papyrus and Avatar. Problem 2 - careless or quite fitting? 18:09 An Indigenous stereotype, imperialist tropes 20:13 A catchall stereotype for otherness and "natural" 21:02 The artificial patina of Papyrus 22:59 Life after Peak Papyrus 23:39 Does it deserve its bad reputation? 24:47 A milestone video and call for collaborators! -- References: https://timesnewboman.notion.site/References-Papyrus-2c70d6d1e99345a2901b9164aa389f60 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Check out Envato Elements 👉 https://1.envato.market/c/3671954/1159027/4662?subId1=video1 (since this video was published, free trials have been discontinued). Today we use the new British royal cypher to dive deep on the design of royal monograms and how they are used. Check out my tutorial on Tuts+ iPad Lettering Tutorial | Complete Procreate to Illustrator Workflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjPr-wz_r1c 0:00 The Queen's "logo" was her royal cypher 0:32 What exactly is a cypher? 1:05 Queen Elizabeth II's cypher 2:18 The cypher of King Charles III 3:16 When monograms go wrong 3:49 A typographic side-by-side 4:18 Lettering course on Tuts+ 4:45 Sponsor - Envato Elements 5:43 The challenge with crowns 7:46 Comparison with previous British monarchs 9:06 Comparison with other current European monarchs 11:46 Dual cyphers Correction: 1:13 Crowned, not coronated. -- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

I gave this talk at a live workshop hosted by Han Xiao of Jina AI https://jina.ai/ and the team behind Discoart https://github.com/jina-ai/discoart. It was a fantastic and engaged audience with a great Q&A and roundtable. I only regret not being able to spend more time in Vienna. Thanks to Joseph Hillenbrand for running these prompts through DALL-E 2. Check out Jiawen Chen's illustration series here: https://jiawenchen.art/jiawenchen-illustrations#/me-inside And the packaging design from OMSE featured here: https://thedieline.com/blog/2022/6/23/doja---omse? 0:00 Art vs. image making. Asking the right questions. 5:34 The design process overview 9:00 Challenge: AI vs Human. Reverse engineering creative outcomes. 20:59 A short history of disruptive change in media 24:51 Opportunities and challenges. Utopia vs dystopia.

Sign up to Milanote for free and start your next creative project: https://milanote.com/linusboman Has the death of the designer been greatly exaggerated? AI systems like DALL-E 2 and Google's Imagen are creating impressive visual results unlike anything ever seen in machine learning. But does that mean they'll soon be making creative professionals obsolete? Special thanks to Chris Lustri of Macquarie University, Han Xiao of Jina AI - give DALL-E flow a try at https://github.com/jina-ai/dalle-flow And Stewart Hicks as the voice of Tim Gunn: https://www.youtube.com/stewarthicks Best proper DALL-E explainers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVcsDDABEkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdGVbPI42sA 0:00 Can you spot the human? 2:50 The DALL-E 2 text-to-image workflow 5:29 How human graphic designers work 5:59 1. Briefing - understanding what the client really needs 6:36 2. Research - laying the groundwork 7:08 Sponsor: Milanote 8:27 3. Exploration - developing creative routes 9:21 4. Refining - based on client feedback 9:43 5. Delivery - artwork and guidelines 10:03 The dirty secret of creative work 11:01 Leveraging AI for design exploration 12:37 Freeing creatives to create 13:46 Who should worry (at least a little) 15:34 The missing ingredient: point of view 17:49 Prediction 1: Synthetic Surrealism 18:59 Prediction 2: Beyond the prompt 21:14 Prediction 3: Copyright Chaos -- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Chop suey fonts are a subcategory of so-called "ethnic" display fonts, and are a unique American invention with roots in the 170 year history of Chinese migrants in United States. If you enjoyed this video, please consider supporting the great work at Welcome to Chinatown. https://www.welcometochinatown.com/ https://www.instagram.com/welcome.to.chinatown/ Special thanks to Raven Mo for her contribution to the original research, title dividers and personal perspective shared in this video. https://ravenmo.info/ https://www.instagram.com/ravenmodesign/ --- 0:00 This lettering will look familiar... unless you're from China. 1:06 What is a Chop Suey font? 1:35 Typographic Stereotypes from repeat usage 2:02 Typographic Stereotypes with design intent 3:04 How Chinese writing works, compared with Chop Suey fonts 4:44 Where it started, how it began 5:22 Some historical context 6:41 Chinatown's theatrical reinvention 7:21 How exclusion propelled Chinese restaurant expansion 9:16 Repetition trumps authenticity 10:05 Why Chinese restaurants perpetuated this trope 10:57 Can a font be racist? 11:17 The type equivalent of a fake foreign accent 12:16 Or... don't be a hack? 13:14 Where are things headed? 13:50 Chinese food is more than takeout food 15:11 Corporate high-end dining 15:42 Embassy restaurants 16:06 New-school Chinese American restaurants 16:45 An expression of Chinese identities 17:54 TienMin Liao's multi-script typography 19:02 How to support Chinatown's survival --- Sources and further resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmz42awTRsA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K88pWCimZg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Maîtres_de_l'Affiche https://www.printmag.com/design-resources/stereo_types/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/its-chinatown/ https://cup.columbia.edu/book/chop-suey-usa/9780231168922 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/chop-suey-fonts-hyphenated/index.html http://fontdata.com/american-typeface-design-patents/?filter=d:Thorp%2C+Henry+H. https://scholars.org/brief/untold-story-chinese-restaurants-america https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334429825_Cultural_Stereotypes_in_Letter_Forms_in_Public_Space https://apebhconference.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/carter1.pdf https://medium.com/aj-news/heres-what-chinese-takeout-menus-can-teach-us-about-immigration-4b41fcf5c0f7 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3576038/ https://medium.com/@Typeji/bilingual-lettering-2-observation-aa7921df018 https://typeji.com/MultiScript Type 1 typographic sterotypes: https://linedandunlined.com/archive/new-black-face/ https://firstamericanartmagazine.com/papyrus-bad-fonts/ Plus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waOUNwZA4aQ https://www.vox.com/videos/2019/3/26/18282192/asian-accent-l-and-r https://fortune.com/2020/06/21/chinese-restaurants-food-american-immigrants-businesses-coronavirus/ https://www.mocanyc.org/ https://margaretcho.com/2012/03/21/chop-suey-font/ https://exhibits.lapl.org/chinatown/ Images: http://menus.nypl.org/menus https://www.foodanddrink.amdigital.co.uk/ https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/soete-menu-collection?keywords=chinese https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/search/collection/menus/searchterm/chinese/order/nosort https://www.loc.gov/collections/genthe/ https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/ https://californiarevealed.org/ 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Artlist and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Let's wrap up the year with a survey of trends and interesting things that happened in graphic design in 2021. If you're interested in exploring more aesthetic styles, check out the Design Tropes discord server at http://designtropes.org/ 00:00 How it is. 00:19 Design minimalism is dead, kind of. 01:01 2021 - more of 2020, but different. 02:19 Generational shift: zoomers take the lead 03:20 Millennials moving on, out or aside 04:05 The 50 year curse, and its graphic design equivalent 05:15 What's old is new again. Vintage aesthetics return remixed. 06:35 What's cringe? Anything designed in the Bush era. 07:05 Rise of the system fonts of yore 07:44 Life's too short to be boring 07:57 The new "will it fax?" 08:52 Loose thoughts - car badges 09:26 Most shameless - Save the kids scamcoin 10:05 Best design moment of the year Armin Vit's blog - Brand New - is absolutely worth checking out, but is behind a paywall ($20 per year). Though if you're unemployed or a student you can reach out for free access. https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/ 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

The roots and legacy of Cowboy Bebop's iconic title design w/ @TimBeauBennett. The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: ​https://skl.sh/linusboman11211 Check out Tim's channel for more Jazz history https://www.youtube.com/c/TimBeauBennett Estelle Caswell's excellent video on Blue Note album covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNgA7dDs90E --- 00:00 Opening credits have a tough job 00:45 How Cowboy Bebop broke through in the West 01:20 Past influences: Title Design Pioneers (Saul Bass, Maurice Binder, Pablo Ferro) 03:22 Past influences: Blue Note Records - design masterpieces 04:40 The brilliant soundtrack 04:55 Sponsor - Skillshare 06:20 Guest analysis - Yoko Kanno's "Tank!" with Tim Beau Bennett 06:54 The sound of the sixties Spy theme 08:02 Comparing the Mission: Impossible theme with "Tank!" 10:45 A product of the turn of the millenium 10:57 Y2K trends: editing speeding up, especially in Anime 11:57 Y2K trends: the rise of Grunge typography 13:19 Cowboy Bebop's title design legacy: Adult Swim and Beyond 14:52 A special time and place Number of cuts sped up over time: https://www.wired.com/2014/09/cinema-is-evolving/ Music by epidemic sound, streambeats, envato.

This is a pre-recorded talk I presented at the ATypI 2020 All Over virtual conference. Videos on this channel are not usually so academic, but I hope you enjoy none the less!

How did Anderson's typographic taste change and evolve over the course of the 2000s? Also, check out this video's sponsor - Private Internet Access: http://www.privateinternetaccess.com/linusboman Thanks to Chandan Mahimkar for his invaluable insight: https://instagram.com/see_mahimkar/ https://www.mahimkar.com/ --- Anderson on the Cousteau legal headache: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icps5ddrWAI Behind the scenes - Darjeeling Limited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpLdS5BFUbA Behind the scenes - Fantastic Mr Fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5pQvytHIEE --- 0:00 Wes Anderson's films of the 2000s 0:33 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2:35 Zissou and Jacques Cousteau 3:29 A custom outlined Futura? 4:04 Retro-modernist aesthetics 4:49 The Darjeeling Limited 5:16 Chandan Mahimkar, Mubai-based designer and lettering artist 5:35 The Darjeeling Limited logotype 7:34 British colonial influence 8:25 Authentic design details 9:38 Outside the train 10:52 Closing credits custom font 12:20 A sign-written Easter egg 12:55 Sponsor: Private Internet Access 14:22 Fantastic Mr Fox 14:59 Delightful details 15:50 A very un-British adaptation 16:13 Prime suspect: Helvetica 17:39 Getting way too worked up about trivial minutiae 18:42 Culturally ambiguous results 19:21 Crossing the Futura rubicon 20:47 What's coming in Part 3 --- Music from storyblocks, artlist and streambeats. #wesanderson #typography #futura

Dave Vanderstrike guides you through the 3 pitfalls of branding that all to many brands in the Evil Mega Corporation market are falling prey to. This video is satire. Any similarity to actual corporations, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental. #branding #evil #megacorporation 0:00 Evil is a cutthroat business for Mega Corporations 0:48 Evil is not a brand personality. You need one. 2:39 Naming: How not to be tediously predictable 4:08 Visual Identity: As Important as Uniforms 4:40 Your logo - time for a brand refresh 5:07 Tired Typography - there are alternatives 5:56 Don't forget about color 6:41 Case Study: Glomnicorp / Oomii 7:31 Epilogue This was fun. I hope you like it. Production assistance from Karl Bourdiec.

A case study on how Braille Institute's Atkinson Hyperlegible was designed to improve accessibility for people with low vision. Now available, free on Google Fonts and Google Docs. https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible For more information on the Braille Institute https://brailleinstitute.org #accessibility #legibility #inclusivedesign Designed by Applied Design Works http://helloapplied.com/ https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/2-8-august-2021/designing-atkinson-hyperlegible/ Online talk at the Letterform Archive https://letterformarchive.org/events/view/atkinson-hyperlegible-challenging-assumptions-about-legibility-and-accessibility 00:00 Challenging what disability looks like 01:04 My connection and disclosure 01:17 The origin of Atkinson Hyperlegible 02:19 Harmonious design vs letter differentiation 03:39 Legibility tweaks on three levels 04:13 Level 1: Humanist legibility tweaks 04:51 Level 2: Differentiating homoglyphs (easily confused letters) 06:17 Level 3: Other vision challenges, and partial-homoglyphs 07:27 Putting it all together 08:43 How to add Atkinson Hyperlegible to Google Docs 09:07 Beyond one typeface Sources: Athletics highlights - Rio 2016 Paralympic Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qynsSP-bXNg Beyond bionics: how the future of prosthetics is redefining humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgTwa3CPrIE The Phoenix i by Phoenix Instinct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrn0hUVCqVo Benjamin Hubert's Layer designs world's first 3D-printed consumer wheelchair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy7scS4JT2g Can Prosthetics Outperform Real Limbs? Cyborg Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2z8CE2vomY Video backgrounds by: https://twitter.com/RostislavZon 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Covering the evolution of the Olympic pictogram from Tokyo 1964 to 2021. I also try my hand at a new pictogram for an unexpected sport. With guest analysis from Fernand's Live Show Show https://www.youtube.com/c/FernandsLiveShowShow #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #Pictograms 00:00 Introduction 00:30 What is a pictogram? 00:46 Early history at the Olympics - Tokyo 1964 to Seoul 1988 04:24 Barcelona 1992, breaking the mold 05:21 Lillehammer 1994, remixing culture 06:28 London 2012, Rio 2016 07:28 Then vs Now, a growth in scope 09:39 Opening ceremony segment breakdown ft. Fernand 12:22 A brand new pictogram challenge 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

A deep dive on type and lettering in the films of Wes Anderson. Starting with his early career, and his relationship with Futura from first flirtation to full blown fanboy. 0:00 Wes Anderson's typographic reputation 0:56 Bottle Rocket (1996) 2:56 Rushmore (1998) 6:38 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 7:11 All about Futura 9:10 How Wes Anderson uses Futura 11:01 Anderson's retro-modernism --- All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ #wesanderson #typography #futura

Today we examine the premise - does the graphic design of cover art correlate with the quality of the music within? Hat tip to the Internet's favorite melon - @fantano for raising the question! 0:00 Intro 0:38 Why The Year 2002? 1:07 Methodology 2:01 Scoring Begins 4:10 Avril Lavigne - Let Go 5:35 Britney Spears - Britney 6:29 Cam'ron - Come Home With Me 7:48 Clipse - Lord Willin' 8:36 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood To The Head 9:15 Creed - Weathered 10:26 DMX - The Great Despresison 10:47 Eminem - The Eminem Show 11:26 Hoobastank - Hoobastank 11:45 Incubus - Morning View 12:32 JAY-Z - The Blueprint 12:57 Jennifer Lopez - J.Lo 13:24 John Mayer - Room for Squares 14:56 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 15:44 Ludacris - Word of Mouf 16:54 Nelly Furtado - Whoa, Nelly! 17:20 Nickelback - Silver Side Up 17:43 No Doubt - Rock Steady 17:55 Pink - Missundaztood 18:24 P.O.D. - Satellite 19:13 Santana - Shaman 19:40 Staind - Break The Cycle 20:06 System of a Down - Toxicity 21:03 The Strokes - This Is It 21:18 Toby Kieth - Unleashed 21:36 Vanessa Carlton - Be Not Nobody 22:01 Results #albumart #2002 #tierlist All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ

It's not been the best year for smiling, so in this video I use AI to fix some of the year's angriest memes, for my own amusement. Using Photoshop's new Smart Portrait tool in Neural Filters and a Google Colab notebook based on this research paper – https://github.com/microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life. --- 0:00 2020 - What a garbage fire! 0:32 Adam Driver in Marriage Story 2:20 Jessica Jones and Kilgore (David Tennant) 4:32 Sad Will Smith Meme 6:27 Confused Screaming feat. Filthy Frank aka Joji 8:20 Hide the pain Harold 9:03 Woman yelling at cat with salad (Real Housewives vs Smudge) 11:28 See you in the new year. #HappyNewYear #machinelearning #memes All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ

We all know the movie cliché. But has AI and machine learning made the Enhance trope a reality at last? Let's dig in and see. #enhance #superresolution #machinelearning #photoshop 0:00 Challenging assumptions 1:25 Meet the new boss 1:46 CSI: Miami (2005) 3:11 Super Resolution (Gigapixel AI, Photoshop Super Zoom) 4:42 Google Pixel Super Res Zoom 5:43 Charlie's Angels (2000) 6:14 Reflections - Seeing Through Obstructions 7:06 Upscaling faces with PULSE 8:43 Bias in Training Data 9:38 Colorization (Deoldify) 10:35 Enemy of the State (1999) 11:39 PIFuHD - 3D models from 2d photos 12:45 Hard Limits 14:30 Predictions --- Let's Enhance supercut https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk Two Minute Papers https://youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai/videos CSI Theme (Won't Get Fooled Again by the Who) reimagined by Jukebox AI: https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ https://colab.research.google.com/github/openai/jukebox/blob/master/jukebox/Interacting_with_Jukebox.ipynb Topaz Labs Gigapixel AI: https://topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/ Adobe Photoshop's Neural Filters: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/neural-filters.html Handheld Multi-frame Super-resolution (Super Rez Zoom, Google) SIGGRAPH 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/handheld-super-res/ https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/10/see-better-and-further-with-super-res.html Learning to see through obstructions https://alex04072000.github.io/ObstructionRemoval/ https://github.com/alex04072000/ObstructionRemoval PULSE: self-supervised photo upsampling via latent space exploration of generative models https://github.com/krantirk/Self-Supervised-photo https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machine-learning-tool-pulse-stylegan-obama-bias --- Underlying bias in training data https://towardsdatascience.com/sources-of-unintended-bias-in-training-data-be5b7f3347d0 https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/ --- Deoldify https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify PIFuHD https://shunsukesaito.github.io/PIFuHD/ John McClane model - Greggo's Customs and Paint Work http://greggocustoms.blogspot.com/2012/03/full-custom-john-mcclane-from-die-hard.html --- All our hopes are pegged on you, 2021. No pressure! All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ

A breakdown on why Ryanair's sticker-style seatback safety card is one of the worst in the aviation industry from a design perspective. Also, I make no apologies for that opening pun. Come at me, Ryanair twitter account! Anyway - if you're interested in good safety card design, I suggest this excellent episode of 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/in-the-unlikely-event/ Correction: 6:44 Total pronunciation screw-up, sorry. Also take a look at Delta's animated safety video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyYOqCibdY 0:00 An over the top deconstruction of Ryanair's safety card 0:21 Ryanair in summary 1:55 Problem #1: Inconsistent Characters 3:37 Problem #2: Terrible Arrows 4:57 Problem #3: Poor Readability 7:38 Problem #4: Lack of Care 8:43 Closing thoughts #ryanair #aviation #design Also, nobody reads these descriptions this far down, right? Look at you! Did you notice my fake Christmas wreath? ;) All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ

In this video I breakdown the biggest clichés of logo design in the live comedy by looking at the logos of comedy clubs from across history and their common visual tropes. This video is a companion to my talk at AtypI 2020, called Visual Slapstick - A short history of typography in comedy club branding. Link to follow after the conference talks have gone public. Special thanks to Ritch Shydner http://www.ritchshydner.com/ Find more about comedy history: https://www.thehistoryofstandup.com/ Support live comedy in London by supporting Angel Comedy Club: https://www.patreon.com/angelcomedy 0:00 Introduction 1:50 Jesters / Jokers 2:35 Groucho Glasses / Thirties Comedians 3:26 Sock & Buskin / Comedy & Tragedy masks 3:57 Smiles, Mouths & Teeth 4:39 Smiley Face / Emojis 5:22 Misc Smiling Mascots 5:46 Animal Mascots 6:46 Fruit / Food Mascots 7:06 Insanity Tropes 7:43 Laughing Cartoons 8:16 People with microphones 8:43 Stop Signs? 9:09 Microphones 9:32 Anthropomorphic Mics 10:10 Vintage Mics (Shure Unidyne 55) 11:37 True Comedy Mic (Shure SM58) 12:29 Angel Comedy Club Case Study 14:40 Closing Thoughts #AtypI2020 #comedy #branding All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ

Forget Freddie vs. Jason - today it's Freddie versus Liz, in the ultimate battle of heraldic achievements! It's a Battle Royale to answer, whose crest is best? ;) 0:00 Introduction & Background 1:03 Anatomy of a Heraldic Achievement 3:07 The Royal Coat of Arms 6:44 Queen's Crest Logo 8:59 Conclusion - whose crest is best? Further reading: https://www.royal.uk/coats-arms https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg https://www.visitscotland.com/about/uniquely-scottish/national-animal-unicorn/ Ermine photo by Fabio Bretto https://www.flickr.com/photos/46493994@N00/299988168 Queen Anne's Royal Coat of Arms by Nigel https://www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/7615479760 #queen #heraldry #logo All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ http://www.timesnewboman.com/ http://www.calligraphuck.com/

Chris gives Tom and Jerry the job of redesigning the logo for the Parks and Recreation department. What does this episode get right and wrong about how a brand design really works? In this video, I break it down in more detail than anybody needed. Because I am the unstoppable nerd of design, please, let me be your guide. Not that anyone reads the video dooblie-doo but I actually edited this on holiday, on old 2014 Macbook Pro, so if the production is a little less polished than usual, that's why! 00:00 Introduction 00:43 The Creative Brief 02:59 Jerry's Concepts 05:39 Tom's Concepts 07:09 Jerry's old ID card 08:58 The Final Proposal 12:00 Final Reality Checks 13:18 Outro #parksandrec #parksandrecreation #rebranding 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Intel killed their iconic swoosh, and with it, one of the last living titans of this logo cliché. So where did it come from, and is it really dead? 0:00 Intel has killed the swoosh 0:30 Non-cliché swooshes: Nike to NASA 1:17 The new breed 1:31 Factor 1) Desktop publishing 2:20 Factor 2) The dot com bubble 3:07 Enter: The Millennium Swoosh 4:10 Good swoosh: Amazon 6:10 Bad swoosh: Capital One 7:47 The death of the swoosh? 9:30 Outro (Easter Egg) Further reading: Logo Hell by Steven Lekowicz http://lekowicz.com/library/logohell/logohell.html #swoosh #logo #design 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

The mystery of liquor labels from Yakuza Kiwami 2 has been stuck in my brain. Today, I overanalyse environmental game assets, then redesign a fictional scotch label. Why? Because I'm a huge nerd and nobody can stop me. #yakuzakiwami2 All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ http://www.timesnewboman.com/ http://www.calligraphuck.com/

I'm celebrating the launch of my book "Classy AF Cocktails" with a look at the shady world of knockoff designs via the lens of bourbon. We look at how supermarket brand-alikes, especially from Aldi and Lidl copy their market leading competition like Jim Beam. The book is Classy AF Cocktails, out now in the US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452182663/ and September 4 in the UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1452182663/ or order through your local bookshop https://bookshop.org/books/classy-as-fuck-cocktails-60-damn-good-recipes-for-all-occasions/9781452182667 --- 0:00 Introduction 1:27 Jim Beam's design origins 2:24 White Label design breakdown 4:50 Aldi knockoff: Samuel Joe's 6:52 aka. Clarke's Bourbon 7:57 Behind the name 9:18 Economic incentives 10:23 Is that legal? 12:09 Blind tasting on the rocks 13:16 Cocktail: bourbon smash 14:35 Closing thoughts --- #bourbon #design #knockoff All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ http://www.timesnewboman.com/ http://www.calligraphuck.com/

In this video I do a deep dive on Jonathan Hickman's Krakoan cipher, as featured in the Dawn of X relaunch of X-men universe comics, from a lettering designer's perspective. We take a look in particular at what it shares with and how it differs from real scripts for true languages. You should also definitely check out @LindsayEllisVids video on conlangs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFlyQk_uVAI 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Background 1:56 Krakoan's Inspiration 2:57 Design Features 3:49 Real vs Constructed Scripts 6:43 Krakoan as Brand Illustration 8:11 Closing thoughts Check out the One X-Cellent Scene playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd7v7nQLQGwLFOPGk1QPEBJr6D9F2yUnq All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ http://www.timesnewboman.com/ #OneXCellentScene #xmen #krakoan #designanalysis If you're curious to learn more about design in it's many applications - there's a new subreddit just for you where you'll find more videos, podcasts and articles - come join at https://www.reddit.com/r/designcurious/

For a change of pace, we're going down under to take a look at the logos of Australia at the national, state and territory, and city level and give them an analytical critique. We'll see what trends emerge and completely nitpick needless details. Warning: high risk of severe burns for the Gold and Sunshine coast, as well as Tasmania and the state of New South Wales. ;) If you're reading this, yes - technically Queensland ties with the NT, but you gotta give the win to the battler, that's the unspoken Aussie code. You should watch Roman Mars' TED talk on vexillology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4 0:00 Introduction 0:47 SOLTE scoring system 2:04 The Australian Government (Commonwealth Coat of Arms) 4:30 Australia Master Brand 6:35 Australian Made 8:04 NSW: New South Wales State Government 9:06 City of Sydney 10:29 City of Newcastle 10:59 City of Woollongong 11:28 Vic: Victoria State Government 12:17 City of Melbourne 13:29 Qld: Queensland State Government 14:56 City of Brisbane 15:45 City of Gold Coast 16:30 City of Sunshine Coast 17:46 WA: Western Australia State Government 18:41 City of Perth 19:54 SA: South Australia State Government 20:31 City of Perth 21:01 Tas: Tasmania State Government 22:51 City of Hobart 23:25 Australian Capital Territory (Canberra) 24:51 NT: Northern Territory 26:04 City of Darwin 26:49 Summary, Comparisons & Conclusions 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb http://www.timesnewboman.com/ #aussielogos #logoshootout #designanalysis

In American Psycho, Patrick Bateman sure has some strong feelings about stationery design, but is it founded on reality or fiction? In this video we'll look at the typography, card stock, print embellishments and layout of the business cards of Pierce & Pierce's many Vice Presidents of Mergers & Acquisitions. 0:00 Deconstructing the minute details of stationery design 0:31 Patrick Bateman's card 3:48 David Van Patten's card 5:00 Timothy Bryce's card 6:59 Paul Allen's card 9:30 Analyzing the cards as a set 11:32 The flawed premise (being deliberately pedantic) #AmericanPsycho #Design #BusinessCards --- Sources: The Business Cards of American Psycho by Claire Greene https://hobancards.com/american-psycho-business-cards --- Neenah Paper - The Beauty of Engraving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjeA5lgjCK4 Carlson Craft - The Craft of Thermography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YEU87h-YRA Jonathan Hackett - How to Make a Watermark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLi3_INkioY&t=7s Neenah Paper - The Beauty of Letterpress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtwnbwYBBu0 Panda Sandwich Press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enfr_43xnTY --- 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Microsoft isn't the first company you'd associate with typography, but their fonts have done more to democratize typesetting than any company in the last half century. Today we look at that history through 10 of their most famous and infamous fonts. 0:00 Microsoft's typographic legacy 0:54 What is typography? 3:57 Segoe UI (and Frutiger, Myriad) 8:13 Calibri 13:02 Core fonts for the Web 14:58 A history of Truetype fonts 18:37 Trebuchet MS 21:51 Georgia 25:01 Impact 27:18 Verdana (and Tahoma) 32:18 Comic Sans 34:35 The "OG" Truetype Trinity 35:15 Times New Roman 39:32 Courier New 41:52 Arial 44:42 A legacy which endures today First of all, just what is typography? #Typography is everything about written communication that's visual. On screen or off. As instruments are to musical performance, #fonts are to typography. While #Microsoft may not have pioneered all of the underlying technology like Truetype, or had the most original designs, their sheer market dominance meant that their influence was unavoidable through the era of the desktop pc. It’s easy to forget in 2020, that Microsoft was once considered the biggest of all big tech companies - and sued as monopoly under US anti-trust laws. For multiple decades nearly everything important in computing was either instigated by or was made in reaction to Microsoft. A video essay by https://timesnewboman.com/ Errata: The font listed as Recia is incorrect (the file was missing so what is shown on-screen is Lucida Grande) the correct font can be seen here (affiliate link for commercial font): https://www.dpbolvw.net/ns80ft1zt0GIHHILPIJIGILHKJNNN?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfonts.com%2Ffonts%2Findian-type-foundry%2Frecia%2F&cjsku=541700 Further resources: --- *Font format wars:* The Font Wars—PostScript, TrueType, the Mac and the success of desktop publishing by Typography Guru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9Dj7tBlkg&t=661s TrueType: The Digital Font Technology, lecture by Eliyezer Kohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWs65Uejd4M --- Type Specimens - 1921 - Miller & Carter https://archive.org/details/printingtypespec00millrich *Screen-optimised Serif Body fonts* Merriweather (Free) https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Merriweather Bitter (Free) https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bitter Recia (Commercial - NB: affiliate link) https://www.dpbolvw.net/ns80ft1zt0GIHHILPIJIGILHKJNNN?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfonts.com%2Ffonts%2Findian-type-foundry%2Frecia%2F&cjsku=541700 --- AMOLED vs IPS LCD vs Retina vs Infinity Display - Gary Explains Android Authority https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGTHAc_XwWc These Are Not Pixels: Revisited by Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6tw-gulnQ --- Microsoft Bob Experience: Was It Really THAT Bad? - LGR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkU4WWEUj-Y --- *Metal type:* Monotype casting machine at Arion Press in San Francisco from Pino Trogu (Apologies I misspelled your name in the video)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjkMW_zgHzo Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (the end of metal type at the New York Times) https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu --- The Farewell' Screenplay Breakdown: Lulu Wang Compares First To Final Drafts | Vanity Fair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_taWSzIaBYg --- TechAltar: Why Microsoft partners with rivals (Linux, PlayStation, Chromium, etc.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ClOsqIXv_0&t=301s --- Apologies to Brian Brushwood. ;) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC42VsoDtra5hMiXZSsD6eGg 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Today we take a look at some noteworthy logos from London's history - the good, the bad, and the quirky. If you haven't watched my previous video about the logos of London's 32 borough councils - I suggest you watch that one first. https://youtu.be/PcRothoXii4 #London #Logos #History Huge thanks to: https://twitter.com/lccmunicipal If you enjoy this video, be sure to read their blog article here: https://lccmunicipal.com/2018/06/04/the-lost-logos-of-the-london-boroughs/ All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ Pub signs used: Sign for the Stanley Arms pub cc-by-sa/2.0 - JThomas - geograph.org.uk/p/4166180 Kynnersley Arms (pub sign) cc-by-sa/2.0 - P L Chadwick - geograph.org.uk/photo/1964251 Stanley Arms (inn sign) cc-by-sa/2.0 - David Dixon - geograph.org.uk/p/3118603 The Burlington Arms sign cc-by-sa/2.0 - Oast House Archive - geograph.org.uk/p/4267807 Kings Arms sign cc-by-sa/2.0 - Oast House Archive - geograph.org.uk/p/6233604 Horsfield Arms Sign cc-by-sa/2.0 - Gerald England - geograph.org.uk/p/1279432

Grand Theft Auto V is set in the city of Los Santos, a satirical take on Los Angels, CA. It's full of details, right down the famous Vinewood Sign. But the sign it's based on, despite being some of the world's most famous letters, has a glaring oversight that drives makes me insane. #Hollywood #Sign #Typography Watch the video about this sign's legal issues by Tom Scott - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdQ7gxU6Rg This interview with Betty Willis is also very worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_3kjqF03nM Let me know in the comments if there's any small details that make you feel slightly unhinged! 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

I make do a typographic breakdown and meta-analysis on 90 top memes from Reddit. What can we learn from how fonts are used in memes? We all have a stereotype of what font is used for memes: Impact. But does that still hold true in 2020? What fonts are most popular and what does that say about the modern state of memery? Memes are vernacular typography, and so they can tell us a lot about how normal, non-designers use type. Also briefly mentioned are these automated font recognition tools if you want to try identifying suspicious fonts for yourself! #Reddit #Memes #Typography https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator All background music by Harris Heller - streambeats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ

It's a logo battle royale! In this video, As a graphic designer specialising in lettering and branding, I methodically rate and roast all 32 #London borough councils (plus the City of London's) logo designs. It's a challenging job for anyone to take one - and this isn't a reflection on the people or the municipal governments of these councils. Hopefully we learn something along the way! #Boroughs #Logos Inspired by the thumbnail of Jay Foreman's Unfinished London episode ten - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_0FYHn0I0 For more info on the City of London, try CGP Grey's videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc London's 32 boroughs are: Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster 🛒My YouTube Gear https://kit.co/timesnewboman/youtube-gear 🛒Amazing AI Upscaling https://topazlabs.com/ref/1205/ Music from Streambeats and Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x9c4wb

Let's take a look at the wanted posters from Red Dead Redemption 2, and see how the technology of Wood Type, and changes in type design at the end of the 19th century changed with the blossoming of mass media. Hamilton Wood Type Museum – https://woodtype.org/ Rob Roy Kelly Collection – https://rrk.finearts.utexas.edu/ Professor David Shields – http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/

The first video on this channel. A bit rough around the edges. A breakdown of why Google Maps Live "Popular Times" feature isn't giving accurate results in early 2020 – due to the way they collect and process location data.