Amped up

Here is a funny little tidbit about me:

I have a major thing for ampersands. Car buffs might have a thing for vintage Aston Martins, and me, well as a designer I have a love affair with type. I don't know what it is about the ampersand....but it probably has something to do with the limitless ways it can be stylized and represented:

...it gives any text some personality....what would Koo & Poppet be without it?

Few words are represented by a symbol as universally recognizable as the ampersand. For a little conjunction, and sure gets dressed up.

this one is brilliant in its simplicity and ingenuity (designer epiphany, no doubt):

red & black, rock & roll:

images via here

Rhett Dashwood font - 10,000,000 pt

This is so cool - typography meets landscape.

Rhett Dashwood (great name) is a Creative Director in Melbourne, Australia who created this Google Earth alphabet by searching satellite imagery for geographic landmarks resembling letters. Apparently "K" proved to be the most elusive.

I like "A" the best (runways!)