Curious and bizarre, designs for 26 “dream houses” fashioned on letters of the alphabet, by Scott Teplin.
The A to Z of Alphabet city’s houses
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 4 January, 2010 to the design and art subset
These phonetics sierra uniform charlie kilo, over and out
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 3 November, 2009 to the comment subset
The existing NATO phonetic alphabet – alfa, bravo, charlie, etc, isn’t the best example of an anacrophonic phonetic alphabet, which the creators of the Nearly Anacrophonic Phonetic Alphabet – or NAPA – hope to rectify…
The NAPA is an attempt to make a truly anacrophonic phonetic alphabet. While we were unable to rigorously maintain anacrophony, we [...]
Easier said than done, switching to the phonetic alphabet
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 3 September, 2009 to the comment subset
Would adopting a phonetic alphabet speed up our learning of the English language?
A dictionary key is over ten times less complex and can probably be learned ten times as quick. It has been claimed that instead of 3 years to achieve literacy, highly phonemic notations may take only 3 months to master!
Sorting the alphabet by alphabetical order
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 22 May, 2009 to the comment subset
Your questions answered on how the alphabet came to be in its current format and order.
The modern English alphabet is the 23-letter Latin assortment with three additions hastened by the invention of movable type. W starts showing up in English letter lists in the 16th century, replacing the previous literal double U (or V) that [...]
Go Font Urself Exhibition Sydney
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 9 February, 2009 to the events subset
The Go Font Urself exhibition opens on at 6:30pm, Wednesday 25 February 2009, at Sydney’s Peer Gallery, 153 Bridge Road, Glebe, and features the work of 13 artists including Beastman, Numskull, and Ben Frost.
Letters, words and font – We know what they are, we see them every day, but for the talented artists of GO [...]
Apparently the letter J is on the verge of extinction
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 3 October, 2008 to the comment subset
Sightings of the tenth letter of the alphabet are becoming farer and fewer between if this Typophile discussion is anything to go by:
I’ve noticed that the letter J is rarely used these days. Do you think I should bother including a J in my fonts or can I just leave it out?
Clearly this some sort [...]
The complete A to Z of trailer truck logos
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 29 August, 2008 to the comment subset
How’s this for a photographic assignment, collect photos of trailer trucks that each feature a different letter of the alphabet.
Just so your task isn’t too straightforward, you must track down the appropriate vehicles on relatively deserted roadways, and only at certain times of the day.
Simple, just ask photographer Eric Tabuchi.
Tabuchi has photographed trailer trucks [...]
