Here’s a fun idea: take two food groups (bacon & eggs, coffee & doughnuts) and create an ampersand that is comprised of both items. Illustrator Dan Beckemeyer has done just that and the results are pretty awesome. See for yourself! If you like these, check out the rest of his phenomenal portfolio over on Behance.

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Most places these days use slick laser-cut vinyl letters and plastic signs to get their point across; however, in many parts of the world, hand-lettering is still the way to go. Not that it has any possibility of dying out in the near future; but, the kind folks at Typarchive collect them and post them, sorted by geographic location. Here are some the coolest examples of hand-lettering in their collection.

Also, these are all mostly exterior. Hopefully they’ll add other letterforms in the near feature. Enjoy!

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File this under cool and handy – Italian based design shop Squidspot has put out a pretty awesome periodic table…of type! Basically, they took the 100 most popular (in their eyes, at least) type faces and created a table of them in the style of the old school periodic table of elements. What makes it even better is that they put out a rather large graphic of it that you can download for free (see link below to the huge version). This baby is just begging to be printed and hung somewhere near and dear to your heart. You can check out the project in more detail here. Happy Friday!

You can view the full size image (3150 * 2100) and save it for download here.

I love the idea of animated type. For me, it goes back to growing up with Saturday morning cartoons; however, I’ve always loved watching the introductory credits to movies…especially when they involve motion typography (or in some cases kinetic typography) just to make them interesting. Think James Bond films. Yeah, you get the idea. Here are 20 recent finds I’ve found that are some fun implementations of both motion typography and kinetic typography. Some of them are set to music and poetry, some of them are set to spoken words or announcements. They’re from all over the world and some of them aren’t in English, but they’re still cool! Enjoy them all – they’re after the cut.

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This was one of the best font scouting weeks in a while! Here are 10 free fonts that you can use in your design projects. In case you missed last weeks Free Font Friday post, you can revisit it here. If you come across some cool free fonts and want us to include them in our Friday post, send us a tip via our contact page. Each image links to the download page for the font. Enjoy!

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Happy Friday! Here are 10 free downloadable fonts that will get your weekend started off on the right foot. To download, just click and you’ll be taken to the free download site for each. Enjoy!

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Thomas Broomé isn’t a typographer, per sé; however, in his series, Modern Mantra, he uses type to illustrate the things that he is drawing. These drawings are actually composed of words that are written describing what they are. If you look closely, you’ll see that the chairs are made of the word ‘chair’ repeated in various sizes and shapes to get the right shading without distorting the word too badly. They’re all ink on paper… and totally brilliant.

You can see more (and larger) images of Broomé’s set, Modern Mantra, at his site here.

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