fontifier: font you.

Avoid those impersonal looking “notes” with a font based on your own handwriting. Fontifier is pretty much idiot proof: download their template, fill it in, scan and upload it back to them. Then they send you a style chart of your brand new font to preview before you buy it (for the very reasonable price of $9 USD).

Please introduce yourself to the world’s newest font, which I have lovingly entitled “Jer Bomb”:

In the immortal words of Ouisa Boudreaux, I have “the handwritin’ of a serial killah”.

Via Gnomist

breathing earth.

Thankfully it is now Friday. That means that before skulking off at 3:00 pm to drown the sorrows that were created by Monday through Thursday, it is now time for Random Website Friday. This week’s random site is Breathing Earth.

Created by David Bleja, the site breaks down – by each country on the planet – the number of tonnes of C02 released into the atmosphere each minute as well as the current birth and death tolls from the moment you log in. Interesting – yes. Morbid – perhaps. However, it has enabled me to tell you that in the time it took me to write this post 1123 people were born and 530 died around the world. I just hope none of them were in my building, because sirens freak me out a bit.

harvey nichols: they shoot models, don’t they?

This viral didn’t turn out to actually be about what I thought it was about. Watch it first, then read on…

(Agency: DDB London)

See what I mean? I thought we were watching some sort of PSA-ish comment on the ruthlessness of the fashion industry / anorexia / kate moss / marginalization of women with the whole mental flip-flop of “if we wouldn’t do this to an animal, we shouldn’t do it to Gisele” thrown in. Maybe a bit odd coming from a department store, but every market has the right to ride the consumer awareness wave now and then.

But after digging deeper on the Harvey Nichols site, it turns out the whole Foodmarket AW07 catwalk thing is really to sell gourmet foods online. For real. Like “Gloucester Old Spot Pork Sausage” made with Amalfi Coast Lemons.

In the end, we’re openly acknowledging that the models are animals and the glamour of fashion is being used to encourage us to buy meat made from the Ostrich/Naomi Campbell that we killed once she finished her last walk. We’re not turning the models into false icons of unattainable feminine perfection… we’re turning them into sausage.

This makes me feel totally weird. I’ve spent some time thinking about it and I’ve decided I don’t like this spot. Which is completely beside the point, because I’ve now expended so much energy thinking about it and Harvey Nichols that I’ve proven how wildly effective this viral really is. Damn them…

Via Adverblog