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Nineteen eighty four...

So... it's off to the Ministry of Type with you, mate!

"The Ministry of Type was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Type, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons."

(This is Orwell's description of the Ministry of Love, but I've substituted a couple of words!)

Kvetcha Yoga: purification through bitching Hilarious, kentlew!

Dez, would the character's name happen to be Bobby?

You betcha, Bruce, but not Bobby Slimbach :-)

ChrisL

My girlfriend would like to know if there’s a text offenders register??!!!
Stef

Yes, you have to put a poorly written sign on your door :-)

ChrisL

Guerrizmo+Design

This one is serious! Do ‘ears’ start with an ‘e’ in Spanish?

Nope... "ears" in Spanish is "orejas".

Is Policía the same in Italian?
ChrisL

Polizia in Italian.

Grazzi!

ChrisL

I hope you guys and gals like my version. I was inspired by ChrisL type cop.
This is what the type police south of the border looks like.
Creative people all over Latin America
take their type serious just as much as North American's do.

Spanish+Italian=Romantic Language

Guerrizmo+Design

“
Shot! Shot! Shot!

Aggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... .... ....

”

Where is the Typolice when you need it?
http://www.weatherby.info/shazam/generalrubbish/PirateDog.jpg

Tarjeta de Indentificación Personá der Agente Púbrico

Hi Typophiles,

My blog is actually called Type Police!
Its funny to see this compositions, I have been working on a logo/masthead for my blog but it is nothing like this.

Anyway this is awesome, good idea!

Well, now you can check the Type Police blog, its kind of a new blog, so there's not much in there. Thinking about showing all those crimes to typography that go unnoticed or unpunished...
http://typepolice.wordpress.com

On a side note, I designed a T-shirt for the plagiarism police ; the making was inspired by a faculty meeting…

Alessandro, that is funny! What is the story behind it?

ChrisL

Thanks for chiming in, Juan. I assume you teach typography? It looks like some good projects from your students.

ChrisL

Chris,
Well, I'm actually taking the Advanced Typography Certificate at the Langara College in Vancouver, BC. This program has been put together by Dr. Shelley Gruendler of Typecamp http://www.typecamp.org/
So all the exercises are made by me...
Cheers,

Hi Juan

Im also named Juan and your blog is interesting.
Where you from Juan?
Alessandro, I dig the t-shirt.

Guerrizmo+Design

@Juan, Shelley is a very fine typographer. I am sure you learned a great deal.

ChrisL

Chris, plagiarism was one of the 7/8 topics covered at the semester faculty meeting; now it appears we have a committee (a group of four colleagues) to deal with such matters – especially for interior architects and fashion design students, for their paying someone out of the school to make their modelling, etc.
Anyhow, my T-shirt is what you see it is (with the quote from Malcolm X), and only for fun, yet I whole heartedly agree with Professor Aaron M. Brower when he says that "students must read for knowledge and write with the goal of exploring ideas. If students developed a genuine interest in their field, grades would take a back seat, and holistic and intrinsically motivated learning could take place. Source: NYTimes.com

http://www.ascendercorp.com/april/2006/fontpolice.htm