Type is Art, from Pieces and Parts

Type is Art: Parts of a Character is the brainchild of the folks at Silo Design, Inc. and JR Visuals, LLC. They call it a public interactive art project because visitors of this site are encouraged to use their imagination and create a piece of art using nothing more than the pieces and parts of 21 different characters. If you would like others to be able to see your masterpiece, you can save it to the Type is Art Gallery. Presently, there are 3,300+ works in their collection. Some get pretty clever. The monstrosity above is my own little creation. What do you think?

Kind of fun, easy to use and not a huge time investment. Also a good way for students to learn the anatomy of a letterform.

Name that

As designers, we like to think we’re pretty observant—at least more observant than the average joe anyway—especially when it comes to typography. Well, WE better be! Test your powers of observation with this interesting little quiz called, The Empire Poster Quiz. It challenges you to identify a movie by just one letter from its movie poster, taken out of context. Trust me, it’s REALLY tough. I only got 14 correct out of 46. Maybe it’s because some of these typographic solutions are utterly forgettable…well that’s my excuse anyway.

Let me know how you score. You must click return after every entry to see if you are correct, then add up all of your green checks manually at the end. Think, think, think and have fun, but don’t cheat! Clicking on the letter will reveal the poster when you have completely given up.

Hint: Some of these movies are very recent and some are classics, but all were big box office hits. There, that’s more information than I had when I took this quiz.

www.empireonline.com/features/posterletters