Periodic Tables of Everything March 25, 2009
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Blogging, Design, Etcetera, FFFFOUND!, Helvetica, Pretty!, Technobabble, Typography.Tags: Adobe Creative Suite, books, Colour-Coordination, Game Consoles, Ignore The British, Keep Calm and Carry On, Periodic Table of the Elephants, Pixel Fantasy, Typography
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Periodically, the design world picks up on something and runs with it. Holding up a poster for the camera. Keep Calm & Carry On (and various parodies: Get Excited & Make Things, Now Panic & Freak Out, Ignore The British, Keep Spending & Stay In Debt).
Recently, I’ve noticed an upsurge of periodic tables.
1: A marginally useful and seriously colour-coordinated Periodic Table of Adobe Creative Suite Shortcuts*:
{ Periodic Table of Adobe Creative Suite Shortcuts, Design By Vent via FFFFOUND! }
2: The joyously punilicious Periodic Table of the Elephants:
{ by Lauren Hill Academy/American Chemical Society. Click for full-size/detail }.
Note, for example, that the Helium elephant is flying, the Zinc elephant is sunbaking, the Aluminium elephant is a roll of tinfoil, and the Nickel elephant is, well, a nickel. Joy!
3: And, of course, the Periodic Table of Typefaces:
…where Helvetica (H) — like its elemental counterpart, hydrogen — is, of course, the most abundant typeface in the universe. { by Squidspot.com via Lifehacker. Click thru for full-size/detail }.
* Speaking of colour-coordinated, see my bookshelf:
( And please excuse iPhone image quality. )
A rather paltry effort, inspired by this amazing display:
{ ADD OCD DIY? via Dornob Designs }
Swoon.
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