TypoFlat is a personal & experimental project of designer Branislav S. Cirkovic. It is a “free flow of creation where no clients or money are involved, just a pure passion for creation and form experimentation”. Check it out on the Behance network.

This project by Mirna Raduka involved creating large cardboard letters then making words which were placed on the street then photographed. Nice work. Check it out here >

This is a trailer for a very cool short film called Logorama by H5 in France.

What will the brands think of this? I like it!

Update: The film has just been nominated for an Oscar and a longer clip can be viewed here >

Alex Varanese is an artist from San Francisco who loves experimenting with typography using different dimensions and lighting positions. Check out his amazing collection of type experiments… all with a touch of red.

This new campaign from Dockers calls for men to “wear the pants”. Nice use of typography… Read the story behind the campaign on the AdRants blog.

The Red Ribbon is the international symbol of support for people living with HIV. Wearing a red ribbon is a great way to raise awareness about HIV as well as to break down stigma and prejudice, so make sure you get yours!

You’ve seen them all around the web, CAPTCHAs are those distorted images of letters and numbers used to prevent the automated use of websites. They are supposedely random, but sometimes they seem to be “telling you” something; others are just plain ridiculous or humanly impossible to read. Here’s a collection of the strangest, most bizarre tests agains spam bots.

Sports Illus­trated swimsuit model Bar Refaeli wears merely some body paint on the July 2009 cover of Esquire. Graphic designer James Victore was commis­sioned to transcribe parts of Stephen King’s short story Morality on her naked body.

Its a total ripoff. Sagmeister did this many times before. The picture above is Mrs Eaves (aka Gemma O’Brien) and she has become one of Australia’s most visible typography enthusiasts. She is hot, so I had to post her picture instead of the Sports Illustrated

Typographers House Industries have a huge following. Lost creator J.J. Abrams says, “They’re artists; their work is extraordinary.” Even Van Halen front man David Lee Roth is a fan, proclaiming on his talk show that House “makes all the best typefaces.”

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/blogilvytter Here at Ogilvy Amsterdam we believe creativity has no boundaries. The traditional forms of advertising and new forms like the internet are equally valid and inspiring. We constantly share ideas between us that help us find the most creative and effective solution to our clients’ briefs.

Blogilvy was set up for ourselves as an easy way to share the inspiration we’ve found online. Rather than spamming each other constantly with links we thought we’d make life easier by keeping it all in one place and categorising everything. But then we thought “why not share this with everyone in the creative community”? After all, we have found inspiration out there from every corner of the world, why not share in the same spirit?

So enjoy Blogilvy, add your comments too, disagree with us or with suggestions of cool things that have inspired you too. We’re all connected by the same creative passion.

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A real world dictionary: 4000 words, 7500 images and counting. And you can all contribute. I’m not sure if dutch words accepted but let’s give it a go.

The history of well known logo designs

A collection of hand drawn illustrations.

Hand Made Font is a project developed in Estonia by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov. They specialize in the creation of unique, untraditional fonts.

The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio, nox, …) and artists were invited. The goal of the competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme ‘Netherlands and Architecture’. This is the result…. and check out the process because its made with only free software. I love it. Great work!

A beautiful typeface designed by Peter Verheul. Based on the Dumbar’s Versa.

Really nice portfolio site from Amsterdam-based British designer. This is cool. This is Harrington.

I really like this amazing way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne. It won several design awards and its designed by Axel Peemoeller.

Do you need some typo inspiration? Step away from your computer and take a walk through the city.

Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching. Truly awful pieces of Photoshop work.

To announce that probably the best beer in the world now comes in a new bottle, an impressive amount of those new bottles (on each poster) were used to form the Carlsberg logo. Just for once the well known Carlsberg baseline was adapted into “Probably the best new bottle in the world”.

Interesting blog about how logos have evolved and the current fashion for Web 2.0-style logo design. Lack of originality never goes out of style.

An interesting article about the “out of this world” space trend in design. Web 2.0 stripes are now replaced by spaced out backgrounds and fluorescent coloring. Finally.

After Snakes on a Plane Samuel L. Jackson can only find work doing advertising campaigns. But these ads for Virgin Media combine treated video with old-school animation and motion typography to create an interesting effect bringing to life a simple dialogue. They must have edited out all the motherf###ers in the script.