Fontstruct online font creator

Fontstruct

Any type heads should head over to Fontshop and investigate their new online font creation software — Fontstruct. The application enables you to create fonts entirely online in a simple yet flexible environment. It gets better though — the range of elements to help you create the fonts is massive allowing for a huge degree of flexibility and scope to create truly unique typefaces. Read on to see some samples demonstrating what can be acheived. All the fonts created by users are free to download which is the icing on the cake. Link of the year for me so far.

I'm going to set our design team a challenge to create a font with this application and will post on Flim Flam very soon. 

Again & Again

This must have taken quite some time to make... a whirlwind tour of the wonderful world of Leopard. Nice.
[Link from Pauly

Capsule Toys

No not toys made by the Birmingham based Capsule girls who put on great events like Supersonic, but toys from Japanese vending machines. Pingmag have done a great round up of the scene showcasing some of the best and strangest on offer.

Capsule Toys

Scroll down the article to see the “Don’t eat these! They are poisonous mushrooms!” range of toys.

Vintage Logos

Vintage Logos

“A collection of vintage logos from a mid-70's edition of the book World of Logotypes”

Head over to this Flickr set to see some truly great and inspiring logo work. This book reminds me very much of the books by Yasaburo Kuwayama. It's funny to see so many logos in this collection which remind the mind of logos created fairly recently.

[Edit: Thanks for the keen eye Tiago]

R2D2 runnin' tings

R2D2

R2 was alreay pretty cool... but he’s taken this to the 21st century!

I've kept the image quite cryptic so not to spoil the surprise ;)