Just yesterday the Glyfyx (aka PSY/OPS) crew visited California College of the Arts’ type design exhibition Types and Characters. The exhibit was beautifully curated by three students of Jon Sueda‘s Advanced Design Exhibition class. Impressive work.

The exhibit featured three of CCA’s amazing type anchors (who were also interviewed in the latest issue of Glance magazine) Bob Afouldish, James T. Edmondson, and our very own Rod Cavazos. They answered tough lettering and typography questions posed by a large crowd of what can only be called “type nerds.”

A small selection of work by Rod and PSY/OPS was displayed at CCA, including Glyfyx’ retro-pixelated wooden Bitblox.

The exhibit also showcased seven years of student work done in Rod’s type design course in which students start the class sketching the letters on napkins, and leave with their very own workable typeface.

The Exhition Design students Christopher Jordan, Tracy Liu & Tori Stoudt also designed a beautiful book to accompany the exhibit which will be available on Blurb in the coming weeks. We’ll let you know when it’s available for sale.

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We love new play-things in the Glyfyx studio. Our newest fascination is quite simple, colorful stacking cups by thoughtful toy company Kid O. When you work on your own creative projects all day, it’s nice to take a break and have some hands-on play with something simple and colorful — Oh! and our resident kid likes them too. ^.^

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Bitblox love our Earth!

Each set is hand-manufactured in the United States from sustainably USA-grown bass wood. They’re painted with lead-free inks that are batched-tested, making them healthy for you and the environment.

Celebrate Earth Day with Bitblox! Pick up a set of our eco-friendly wooden blocks today from our web-shop.

Or, learn more about Bitblox here.

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The Glyfyx, Inc. team recently visited the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for a design conference. We took a detour into their museum and were amazed by Shih Chieh Huang‘s dancing electric air contraptions. They moved and clicked and lit up with a rainbow of colors. We love being inspired by new and interesting things.

Mesmerizing! To see these in person visit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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The self-proclaimed geeks over at the technology blog Geeks with Juniors have written up a great article reviewing Alphabuild, our letter-factory educational iOS game.

Alphabuild is an excellent, intuitive and fun game to play with. People of all ages can enjoy this game–it is the perfect iPhone game for the entire family. I’d definitely keep this game on my iPhone, where I can easily access it and hand it over to my juniors anywhere we go. A perfect time-filler game!

Read the rest of the review on their blog, and check out their reviews of other great and geeky games.

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We are happy to announce that a series of vibrant typographic greeting cards and postcards now grace our virtual shelves. Each art card features a vibrant illustration inspired by letters and letter shapes. The cards feature posters originally created for our sister site PSY/OPS Type Foundry (which kinda explains our love for everything alphabet). Each poster is inspired by and makes use of a single typeface found in the PSY/OPS library. These cards are far from your average typography card; they are wacky, swirly, abstract art cards, but if you look closely you’ll see chunks of letters and punctuation.

Aaaaaaand… all cards are going out with FREE SHIPPING! Take a look in our shop and pick out a few!

Binary Solo — A robot greeting card featuring the typeface Franzen by Claudio Rodil.

Full Service — A mechanical postcard featuring engine parts and the typeface Vidange by Jack Usine.

Suspension — A chemistry inspired greeting card featuring the typeface Alembic by RXC.

Ecsez — A graphic greeting card featuring the typeface Graficz by Stefan Hattenbach.

See more of our greeting cards in our shop!

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At Glyfyx we play around with lots of game ideas, and nothing beats playing off-screen with dice and game pieces. We made and collected these wooden pieces, dice, and cards ourselves to test out ideas and have fun.

Looking around the internet we found some other examples of hand-made or vintage game pieces. They have such a warm feeling that is difficult to achieve with the plastic game pieces of today.

Like this collection of vintage wooden game pieces found by CMYBacon:

Or these hand-lettered and laser-cut dominoes by Dirty Bandits:

Whimsically quirky dice with colorful dots handmade by HomeDeconomics!

Finally, these gnome-like pawns on Etsy have so much character with their hand-painted faces:

We hope you enjoyed this post! Check us out on Twitter and Facebook to see more fun things we make and share.

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Mega-blog of everything awesome, BoingBoing, has featured our pixelated alphabet blocks, Bitblox, on their site!! We’re so honored!

We highly recommend their Family section, which they’ve amped up lately. They have book & app reviews, craft & outing suggestions and more family-fun stuff.

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Creative toy curating site, Lofty Littles, has added Bitblox to their toy box!

Lofty Littles scours the internet for toys that are “open-ended, simple, original, imaginative, high quality, award winning, highly rated and overall toys that grow with a child.” Boy! Are we honored to be described by any one of those adjectives! They’ve done wonderful work carefully collecting toys, puzzles, games and books making their site the perfect place to visit when looking for a creative and enriching play-thing for the kiddo(s) in your life. And some of these “toys” are just plain beautiful.

If you love our creative, open-ended, hand-manufactured Bitblox, you can buy your very own set from our shop, here!

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Geek-parent site, Nerdy With Children has featured our pixel-art inspired Bitblox on their blog!

They write:

“As long as you’re teaching your kids the alphabet properly, it should be fine if we add in a little bit of picture association and some fun, no? … Your kids will liken hearts to love and understanding, while we’ll associate it with having to collect more to survive. Your kids will learn about a power button, while we push the block down, hoping for a hard reset. See, learning can be fun.”

We love how they accompany their Bitblox post with some 8-bit appropriate glitch-version of “Master of Puppets” by Metallica.

Check out other smart & fun things they have featured on their site, especially selected for all nerdy artists, gamers, techies and geeks.

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