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Contributor Profile May 2012

Featured Contributor Johan Swanepoel   Were proud to announce that Johan Swanepoel is this months Featured Contributor. Hailing from South Africa with a background in engineering and constructio...

15 Mai 12

Pantone Easter eggs

This is a seasonal decoration that only a designer could conceive (or create so flawlessly): Easter eggs that look like Pantone color swatches. The best part is that theyre surprisingly simple to mak...

09 Apr 12

Type thats above the fold

Typogami is a font inspired by the Japanese art of origami and kirigami - the glyphs look like theyre made from folded paper. Not only that, you can tweak everything from color and fold angles to ang...

05 Apr 12

Frustro: The impossible typeface

Inspired by the famous Penrose triangle illusion, Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedűs created Frustro, a highly unconventional sans serif whose characters literally dont line up. In fact, each letterfo...

28 Mär 12

A-1 Scrabble designer edition

What began as a student project by designer Andrew Capener has, with the help of HASBRO and Winning Solutions, become a lovely, limited edition typographic Scrabble set. The "A-1 Scrabble designe...

26 Mär 12

Veer Spring Incentive Program – Twitter Promotion– Terms & Conditions

LIMITED TIME OFFER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.  Promotion is open to Veer customers who are legal residents of Canada, excluding Quebec, and the U.S. who are above the age of ma...

19 Mär 12

Let price slide

Sometimes you need an inexpensive blog image. Other times, youre working with a billboard budget. Next time you search for photographs or illustrations at Veer, look at the "Narrow your search...

09 Mär 12

Simons sense of snow

On the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, artist Simon Beck walks all day in raquettes (snowshoes) to make elaborate geometric patterns in the snow. He maps his creations using only a sighting compass a...

05 Mär 12

The Artistifier

Its about time we had a way to transform a beloved YouTube video into a classy, silent, black-and-white comedy drama worthy of Academy notice, no? The Artistifier does just that. Create captions and ...

05 Mär 12

Merch Mondays - rules and regulations

For the curious, the thorough, and the lovers of legality, here are the complete rules and regulations for the Merch Mondays contest on @VeerUpdate. Veer® Merch Monday Twitter® Sweepstakes - Official...

05 Mär 12

Communication Arts Typography Annual 2

The Communication Arts Typography Annual 2 honors, among other superb things, the best of the year in typeface design. We were excited to see some of our favorite type designers and foundries on the ...

27 Jan 12

Font haiku contest: The grand prize

The grand prize-winning font haiku is sports-themed, which is fitting, given the spirit of friendly competition that has infused this contest. Congratulations to @orinjuse, whose haiku for Fan Script...

21 Dez 11

Font haiku contest winners, Dec. 12 - 16

From the first syllable to the last, all the font haiku contest entries have displayed a true affection for fonts (no surprise there, but still). Weve been impressed each week by the quality of your ...

15 Dez 11

Font haiku contest winners, Dec. 5 - 9

This week, we congratulate @brandondove, @VanessaKing, @mraugewitz, @bergerwill, and @camoralez for their clever creations. See their haikus below, sampled in the fonts they describe. The font haiku ...

12 Dez 11

Creative Catalyst competition - the results

A few weeks ago we told you about our Creative Catalyst competition, in which we challenged creatives to come up with a piece of artwork in support of a great cause. To say we were thrilled by the re...

09 Dez 11

Font haiku contest winners, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2

Yay for @doomzTO, @JasonDugan, @CherylSeligman, @SugarBabyDH, and @addyebell, creators of this weeks winning font haikus! See their work below, sampled in the fonts they describe. Birthday Pro by Can...

02 Dez 11

Art for Africa - Posterity and the 50/50 project

Posterity represents a lot of work by a lot of artists - its a limited edition poster series created to aid famine relief efforts in East Africa. The one shown above was designed by our own Joe Newto...

02 Dez 11

Font haiku contest winners, Nov. 21 - 25

Just a few more weeks Its almost December now Quick - send your haiku Congratulations to this weeks winners, @kaliko_rosa, @MarketingWebDev, @andreakremer, @koythong, and @jaysundub! Beignet by Jukeb...

28 Nov 11

Font haiku contest winners, Nov. 14 - 18

The contest has been running long enough for us to make certain observations: 1. You love fonts 2. Youre pretty clever with words 3. Were really enjoying ourselves This weeks top font haikus were sen...

18 Nov 11

The chicken wire sculpture of Ivan Lovatt

Since its Monday morning, I was looking for a photo of chicken wire. In my search, I stumbled upon the art of Ivan Lovatt. He sculpts portraits and wildlife out of chicken wire and the results are ve...

14 Nov 11

Font haiku contest winners, Nov. 7 - 11

Another round of excellent haikus, another five outstanding winners. This week, we congratulate @Tayowin, @shaneguymon, @THEDavidMills, @BlackHouseCreat, and @davidmelton. See their haikus sampled in...

11 Nov 11

Font haiku contest winners, Oct. 31 - Nov. 4

We love this weeks font haiku contest winners (both poetically and typographically): @jefftopping, @SDWrites, @jonnail, @joesteenholdt, and @HeySeto. Congratulations! Thanks to everyone for sending h...

07 Nov 11

Become a Creative Catalyst (1)

Its time to design for a good cause. Create a piece to support an issue of your choice and you could win a £/€2000 donation for the cause, have your design displayed in Berlin and London as well as ...

01 Nov 11

Font haiku contest winners, Oct. 24 - 28

Maybe scarves make you think of swashes. Maybe falling leaves spark calligraphic flair. Whatever the case, you loved script fonts this week, and we loved your haikus. We read a lot of wonderfully cle...

31 Okt 11

Font Aid V: Made For Japan

After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March of this year, the Society of Typographic Aficionados began organizing a collaborative project which would unite the typographic and design communiti...

31 Okt 11

Font haiku contest winners, Oct. 17 - 21

Wonderfully creative work as usual - thanks, everyone! Our panel of font experts and haiku enthusiasts picked submissions by @Addeviat, @_dave_c, @gweemfairy, @iamlisathegreat, and @jennyleighb as th...

21 Okt 11

Font haiku contest winners, Oct. 10 - 14

This weeks font haiku contest winners really put the "ha!" in haiku. Congratulations to @vmyselfandi, @pattydtweets, @smonkyou, @theAcecapade, and @glofgren. A million thanks to all who submi...

14 Okt 11

Font haiku contest winners, Oct. 3 - 7

Thanks once again for all your highly creative entries. This weeks top haikus - in no particular order - are by @nlgraphics, @kmyslinski, @BeccaSayre, @SJWtweets, and @KLShields. Well done, type poet...

07 Okt 11

Font haiku contest winners, Sept. 26 - 30

Well, were impressed. Another week, another batch of witty font haikus. Once again, it was hard to pick a top five, but once again we did it (a promise is a promise). Here are this weeks winners in n...

30 Sep 11

Prairie Tables from Gus*

If you seek an appreciation for the Canadian prairies, you might find it with this table set from Gus*. The tables can be arranged in different configurations, but be careful not to mix up your Eyebr...

27 Sep 11

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