An Ode to Graphic Designers and Our Favorite Lorem Ipsum Alternatives
It’s World Graphic Design Day which begs the question – Have you hugged a Graphic Designer recently? Some of them are quite adorable. Here’s a collection that pays tribute to those who are often found slavishly working away until the wee hours by the light of a shiny monitor. For one day only, we’ll refrain from asking if you could make the logo bigger or sending you all the files you need in Microsoft Word format. Our gift to you on World Graphic Design Day is in the form of some excellent art and design dedicated to Graphic Designers and a whole lot of Lorem Ipsum. Enjoy!
From top to bottom: Lorem Ipsum by Helen Brennan, What are you doing? by Steve Leadbeater, Freelance is NOT free by Ena Bacanovic, Don’t forget to feed the cat by littlearty, Invisible by Reece Ward, I see dead pixels by geekchic tees, Nerd Paste by Scott Robinson, Lair of the Rabbit by Chris Rabbit, Caffeine Powers… Activate! by Nathan Davis and Simple by sub88.
Our Favorite Lorem Ipsum Alternatives:
It’s safe to say that many designers have grown tired of the bog standard lorem ipsum placeholder text. You don’t need to trawl very far on the interwebs to find some entertaining alternatives. Here are just a few of our favorites.
Longing for something a little meatier? Try Bacon Ipsum. It’s delicious.
Brush up on your Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum and Jules Verne with Fillerati.
Chuck Norris does not use spell check. If he happens to misspell a word, Oxford will change the spelling of it. More facts courtesy of Chuck Norris Ipsum.
Samuel L Ipsum (NSFW, obviously)
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Comments
Great Love it.
cool examples of graphic design/ typography
Good explanation of meaning, origin, and purpose of lorem ipsum here.
Thank you for introducing me to the term Lorem Ipsum – love the work illustrated. (btw, your link to RedBubble Blog RSS Feed seems to have a problem ).
Great stuff! push it push it
Gosh and to think I’ve been using the old “Lorem” version of Ipsum all these years. ;)
Ha, what fun! Thanks for the links!
Love the collection of graphic artist freelancer illustrations. What a creative bunch! Even finer that they are right here on RB.
Great stuff.. The Geek paste is sooo funny, and I’ve lived with lorem ispum and the rest of it for so long I’m not willing to switch, but those are cool options, too. -J:
love these lorem ipsum alternatives, esp “fillerati!”
What, no mention of Hipster Ipsum? Oh, wait… You guys probably haven’t ever heard of it. :P
Thats great!!