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Like many folks, I was entranced by HBO’s recent series Game of Thrones. So much so, in fact, that certain house words have entered my vernacular and that I took the unprecedented step of readi...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2011/08/visual-language-of-game-of-thrones.html

I’m a sucker for good typography and Latin-Arabic crossover work—as the last several posts no doubt attest. But I’m not the only one, turns out. The folks over at Brand New recently awarded...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2011/08/award-winning-bilingual-squiggle.html

I was thrilled recently to come across Nadine Chahine's article on ilovetypography.com touting her new Linotype type face, Neue Helvetica Arabic. Nadine has already given us Arabic interpretation...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2010/07/neue-helvetica.html

Our affinity of Arabic calligraphy recently led us to the work of Julien Breton (aka Kalaam), a French artist whose light calligraphy takes the look of modern Arabic calligraphy and sets it, thro...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2010/01/ink-is-light-paper-is-photography.html

Batelco—the Bahrain Telecommunications Company—is the largest provider of internet, mobile and telephone services in Bahrain, partly because until recently it was a monopoly. And, as first re...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2010/01/bilingual-rebranding.html

I recently had the opportunity to take the creative lead on a series of television commercials for the WellStar Cardiac Network—the largest collection of heart docs in the Atlanta area. With th...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2009/12/life-takes-heart.html

Since they first appeared on the radio in 2007, I've been a huge fan of Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the world.The Dos Equis campaign, as most of you know, captures the Most Interesting Man...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2009/06/most-interesting-man-in-world.html

To say that most Americans don't understand the current financialocaplyse is, perhaps, an understatement. Confusion abounds concerning mortgage-backed securities, sub-prime mortgages, and the cri...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2009/02/visualizing-credit-crisis.html

Listening to the Prez talk about the current financialocalypse got me thinking about the Great Depression (it was neither great nor depressing...discuss!) and what, if any, markets thrived during...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2009/02/industries-that-thrived-during-great.html

Since 2002, we've done our best to use Fight.Boredom as a vehicle for discussion and critique of creativity, pop culture, and graphic design in and outside of the workplace. And over the course o...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2009/01/fightboredoms-best-of-2008.html

As professional creatives, most of us have, at one time or another, faced the thorny challenge of refreshing or otherwise reinvigorating an established brand. But only the most fortunate among us...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2009/01/conan-designer-redeeming-icon.html

Back in April we talked about how the right brand could make the candidate –even how a font like Gotham could help Barack Obama rise above the primary–season tumult and win the presidency.Tur...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/12/creating-barack-brand.html

NBC Nightly News, of which Ann is a rabid watcher, recently carried a fascinating piece on the decline and increasing marginalization of album artwork in the recording industry. From the lauded a...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/11/death-of-album-art.html

It's no secret that I've got a thing for content analysis and Newsweek. Content analysis is a fantastic method for quantitatively identifying narratives in communications while mass-market newswe...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/10/what-exactly-is-newsweek-trying-to-tell.html

BBC magazine ran a facinating article this week begging the question: Could President Bush saved the country – and the world – some financial and political turmoil if used the word "rescue" i...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/10/branding-perspective-on-wall-street.html

While recently using AIGA's invaluable Design Archive for some project research, I stumbled across The New York Times' fantastic info graphic,"In Perspective: America's Conflicts." This visualiza...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/07/information-design-americas-conflicts.html

The following posting is intended for satirical purposes only and is based upon an coincidence of linguistics and marketing. No relationship between Home Depot and Al-Qaeda is suggested.Back when...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/06/fun-with-branding-home-depot-vs-al.html

On the surface, the following video represents 20/20's attempt to correct a long overdue omission – the historical lack of reporting on graphic design on America's longest-running and most-watc...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/06/design-humor-43-seconds-with-john.html

Just in time for Father's day, we were reminded of Beam Global Wine & Spirits and BBDO Energy's new advertising campaign for Canadian Club: "Damn Right Your Dad Drank It."Canadian Club's camp...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/06/damn-right-your-father-drank-it.html

There is a secret transatlantic tunnel running between New York and London ... and it has lain undisturbed for a hundred years. Now recently completed, this tunnel forms the backbone of an extrao...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/06/behold-telectroscope.html

Great progress has been made, in recent years, to standardize users' online experience across various browsers. Perhaps nowhere has this trend been seen more than in the widespread standardizatio...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/05/outlook-2007-breaking-internet-one.html

On April 2, 2008, The United Kingdom decided to change its currency.Not to the Euro ... heavens no! But the august pound sterling – the third-most-common, and forth-most-traded currency in the ...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/05/new-coins-for-old-kingdom.html

It's amazing that Domino's villanous, red suited Noid (created by Group 243 and animated by Will Vinton Studios) and rapper/clock aficionado Flavor Flav coexisted in the 1980s and early 1990s wit...

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Think you are pretty good at identifying typefaces? We thought we were. But we were recently shamed by our 23/34 score on Kari Pätilä's Rather Difficult Font Game over at the Say It Ain't Slow ...

http://www.fightboredom.net/2008/04/rather-difficult-font-game.html