Helvetica

Yesterday I watched Helvetica. Almost everyone in the office saw the movie when it originally came out, except me. I don't know if I'm easily convinced, but the movie sold me on how beautiful and expressive the Helvetica font is. The best example I can think of is the American Apparel brand. Helvetica made that brand bold and strong, yet delicate and sexy. It's almost frightening that a font can engage you on those levels. And coming from a programmer whose overall understanding of fonts begins with the word web and ends with the word safe, it is marvelous what designers do with typography.

Okami is a Living Painting

Anyone who knows me, knows I love games. And when games like Okami are released it's easy to see why games have ingrained themselves into pop culture. Okami combines several Japanese myths, legends and folklore to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the Shinto sun goddess, named Amaterasu, who has taken the form of a white wolf. The story is told (and played) through a stunning watercolor cel-animated look.

Okami was developed by Clover Studios (and ported to Wii by Ready At Dawn Studios)