From CreativePro.com –Stepping Through Historical Seattle on a Typographic Pub Crawl:
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When I found out that the annual North American typography conference, TypeCon, was going to be in my hometown of Seattle, I decided to create a conference event that would somehow provide a unique experience to typographers from out-of-town. My love for the city is deep since I’ve lived here my entire life (aside from spending my undergraduate years in Spokane, WA and at graduate school in Scotland). Seattle – nestled between the water and the mountains – offers everything our art-creating, coffee-drinking, airplane-making, software-programming locals desire. The knowledgeable Paul Shaw was already scheduled to give his famous TypeCon typography walk in downtown Seattle, so I wanted to choose a different neighborhood and add a little something to make it unique. After all, my first font release, Bemis, in 2013, was based on the 1917 inscription on the historic Bemis building in Seattle. I loved the look of the high-waisted capital letters, so I created a historical revival inspired by the B-E-M-I-S letterforms inscribed onto the front of the brick building. KUOW and The Seattle Times found the project intriguing, so it received a bit of publicity. So combining my interests in typography and in historical Seattle, it seemed as though I might have something…
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(TrendHunter.com) The Letterpress bakery in Vancouver, BC has designed an impossibly realistic, completely edible Marge Simpson cake. The iconic cartoon character is brought to life through this intricate design which depicts Marge from the shoulders up gazing into the distance, adorned with her classic red pearl necklace. The cake takes a humorous twist by depicting Marge as hiding a fully functional donut factory under her iconic blue, bee-hived locks — a nod towards her fictional junk food-loving husband, Homer. The cake was designed with such intricacy, the yellow-clad character looks as though it could come to life…
