Link Discussion: "Misprinted Type" and "I Love Typography"

The two most recent additions (as of this post) to my links on the sidebar are Misprinted Type and I Love Typography. Here is a small summary of the two links for your consumption..

Misprinted Type is the home of talented artist and type designer Eduardo Recife. You will find some of his work in use on this site, even - the headings for the sidebar were created using the freely available typeface "porcelain". Eduardo has a number of other free typeface releases, as well as a series of very attractive commercial releases. If you have a passion for grunge typography, you owe it to yourself to check out Eduardo's typeface work. Don't forget to browse his portfolio - he has some incredibly creative works on display on his website.

I Love Typography is a blog about type. If you are curious about typeface design, the designers behind the type faces you see, or how type should be used, you owe it to yourself to bookmark, subscribe, digg, and whatever else you do to this blogs of this caliber (hopefully it isn't trolling). I myself have discovered a number of typefaces I will be purchasing as soon as I can afford them from reviews on this site.

That's all. Keep an eye out for more commentary on my links in the future.

-WFL

From the History of WFL: The Stigma of Digital Art

Many people have an intense disdain for digital art. Those whom I have talked to think digital artists let the computer do the work for them - just type a few keys, punch a few numbers, click randomly, and BOOM! Fake Warhol.

If it were only that easy. Sure, people can take a photograph, open it in Photoshop (or The GIMP), run a few filters, and it looks like a piece of crap (relatively speaking). It looks like what people perceive as digital art, in many cases.

Some older art fans even think that fractals printed on a dot matrix printer is what digital art is today - which is asinine.

The computer is a tool, and we can paint using one in a similar fashion to "real" painters. We have our graphics tablets. We have our brushes, which we can design. We can even emulate real painting using software such as ArtRage (they have a free version if you'd like to try it).

We can reach details not even open to consideration from regular painters without huge amounts of time. We don't have overhead of paints and canvas. We have a greater array of colors available to us. We can even attain superior photo realism, should we desire it.

Digital art is a beautiful, open medium. Don't criticize what you don't understand.

-WFL