Pompadour Available as a Font (still free!)

Thanks to the wonderful Johno of I Love Typography, and the magic of the Creative Commons, the Pompadour numeral set is now available as both TrueType and OpenType fonts. I figured if John was going to go through the trouble of making Pompadour into a working font, the least I could do was add some punctuation. You’ll find a full stop, semi-colon, colon, comma, hyphen, en-dash and em-dash enclosed, all designed to work with those chunky-ass numbers. Enjoy!

Pompadour (OpenType 8kb)
Pompadour (TrueType 20kb)

Pompadour Numerals Font by Andy Mangold is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.andymangold.com.

It’s also worth noting that a man named Tom generously made a different set of font files for Pompadour, with a square full stop. Head on over to his blog if you get your jollies from that sort of thing.

Pompadour Numeral Set (Free Download)

I have finally gotten around to wrapping up the numeral set I finished a year ago into a nice, downloadable .eps to share with the internet. I hereby dub it ‘Pompadour.’ I have licensed it under the Creative Commons, so feel free to download, use, modify, and share the numbers as you see fit, just please give props where props are due. If you end up using the numbers on something, shoot me a jpg and I’ll link you up on this post.

Download the Pompadour Numeral Set (.eps)

UPDATE: Pompadour now available as a font! Download available here.

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Cameron Sinclair and Architecture for Humanity

I was fortunate enough to attend Cameron Sinclair’s lecture at MICA tonight, something I have been looking forward to for a very long time. His lecture did just what I thought it was going to do for me: he was amazingly inspiring while simultaneously overwhelming me.

For those of you that aren’t familiar with him, he got fed up with the world of Architecture with a capital A catering to the designer crowd and not the common man, or as he calls it “the other 98%”. So, one day after seeing the refugee situation in Kosovo in the late 90′s on the news, he just straight up called the United Nations and asked to speak with whomever was in charge of refugees. Long story short, they actually patched him through to whomever is in fact “in charge of refugees” and he talked his way, quite accidentally, into presenting housing solutions to the UN, who had not spoken with an Architect with an implementable plan in some time. This really kicked Sinclair’s drive to put architects and designers in situations where they could be a part of real change in real time into high gear, and he co-founded Architecture for Humanity, an open source community of designers and architects that give a damn. He throws all of the preconceived notions about what it means to be a designer to the wind and focuses almost entirely on how to use one’s skills to be a positive force in the world. The program has grown immensely over the last decade, but don’t take it from me, check out what they’re up to: www.architectureforhumanity.org

I am immesely impressed and inspired by the man. He is a big “If you are not part of the solution you are a part of the problem” kind of guy, and I am going to be trying very hard in the future to be an integral part of the solution, instead of just polluting the world with classy boardgames and my own personal philosophies set in Clarendon.

Creative Commons: “Bathroom” by Janeen

“Bathroom” from Noodle on Vimeo.

As some of you may know, I have all of my content on both my flickr and my website licensed with an attribution license from the Creative Commons. I am a big supporter of what the Creative Commons is doing, and I am all about the sharing of knowledge, art, and information. A nice young lady named Janeen let me know she used one of my images in a video piece of hers, so exciting! You can see the video, and interesting experiment in visual “speed” poetry, above.

Thanks Janeen, YOU ROCK!