Fontopoly / Type Trumps / The Font Game

Fontopoly / Type Trumps / The Font Game

Ought to have been Typopoly. From timbasmits.com. 'PROJECT / FONTOPOLY & MR FONOTOPOLY CHARACTER DESIGN FOR "GO FONT YOURSELF" EXHIBITION'

Timba Smits, a London-based graphic designer from Melbourne, Australia, created this lovely poster called Fontopoly. This looks like a fun game, although like most of these type projects, I'm sure helvetica wasn't there, and arial. Found on armina_79 Twitter There was this I saw recently too, the fontgame.ilovetypography.com & Type Trumps over at Face37.com
'After the hugely successful Type Trumps comes the much awaited sequel — Type Trumps 2 — 30 new designs showing different typefaces being assigned numerical values. Type Trumps, a play on Top Trumps, uses figures to enable the cards to be won or lost using some of the tried and tested 'Top Trumps' rules. The Type Trumps have a 'ranking', which is a subjectively ascribed positional value based on my personal favourites'

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Published on 2010/04/15 4:26 pm.
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Periodic Table of Controllers

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periodic table of controllers v1 - flickr


by member mike. check out the other periodic's here Periodic table of Typefaces.

There's been a recent flurry of discoveries, it can be subverted into so many forms. I quite like this Console controllers, makes me nostalgic to SNES. Check this post too, Nintendo Map.

Great to visualise the marks on a pad without the shape and just the buttons. Spotted on vi.sualise.us great sort of clipmark, image bookmarking tool. great way to compile inspiration. Saves searching through links, or places you discovered work.

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Nintendo Map

Nintendo Map

Quite an apt time to discover an excellant visual map of the rise and development over 23 years of nintendo's technology in the games console market.

With them re-emerging with the fantastic and amazingly affordable interactive technology (although not to moi), of the wii it is great to observe the development of the brand.

I dont know how but they have also transformed (in the uk) the brand of dr kowa-shee-ma (no disrespect) for their handheld DS. They have taken the addictivness of Tetris from the Gameboy and transferred it to a universal appeal of 'training your brain'.

I was addicted to 'SNES' and would probably be called a 'retro gamer' now as i am addicted to Mario Kart & the greatest game ever Super Bomberman 3 (this was the multiplayer version).

Enough nostalgia this map gives you an excellant overview, it is clean & informative of the different hardware and dates of release. It also gives you a subtle reflective summary of nintendo's brand Mario over the years.

The clean white design of the wii and the DS (although you can get different colours) give it a avant garde look that is reciprocated in the award winning clean white packaging design of Apples Ipod.

Excellant

Cheers phillippe

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Published on 2008/08/28 8:52 pm.
Filed under: clean, function, gadget, games, nintendo, technology, universal, visual maps, white space