Typography

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  • Posterity and How We Save Stuff

    Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook
    Mark Simonson
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:54 pm
    Earlier today I watched this wonderful presentation by Jeremy Keith that he gave at the Build conference. He touches on something I’ve thought about for a long time, going back even before personal computers: The long term prospect of the media we record things on—paper, records, magnetic tape, film, video tape, floppy disks, compact disc, DVDs, hard drives and servers. I had almost the same thought as Jeremy: I picture archaeologists in the distant future studying what remains of our culture and finding lots of documents and records right up until around the end of the twentieth…

  • Tricycle Calligraphy

    Ralf Herrmann: Wayfinding & Typography
    Ralf Herrmann
    2 Jan 2012 | 8:52 am
    Media Artist Nicholas Hanna built a tricycle that can also paint Chinese characters on the ground as it moves. Water Calligraphy has a long history in China, normally characterized by older Chinese men painting characters on the ground of parks with long brushes and water. But Nicholas’ version is a wee bit more complicated … [...]

  • The Typography of Speed

    Ministry of Type
    Aegir Hallmundur
    4 Nov 2011 | 9:17 am
    I was taken by this collection of Chevy speedometer designs brought together by Christian Annyas. As I’m always a passenger (I don’t drive) I’ve had plenty of time to study the details of the dashboard and to note the little typographic touches there. Purely graphically I much prefer the horizontal kind of indicator, but in terms of function the dial has an advantage in that the numbers are spaced evenly. The horizontal kind means it’s harder to differentiate at a glance between speeds in the centre of the speedometer, simply because they’re bunched together.

  • SP Book Sale

    Design is Kinky
    Andrew
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:04 am
    Just a little heads-up that we have a bit of an online garage sale for the 2011 Semi-Permanent books at the moment. Just $20/book + postage. Pretty good for a 200pg book full of awesome artwork. Click here to have a look.

  • An interview with Kunihiko Okano

    I love typography, the typography and fonts blog
    johno
    13 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    By Taro Yumiba How and when did you become interested in typography & type design? At university I majored in graphic design. I used to leaf through typeface catalogs in search of letters to use in my poster design assignments. However, I could never find any typefaces that matched perfectly what I had in mind, so I began making my own. I was lucky enough to have access to a Macintosh and Fontographer 3.1 at the university lab. At that time the Macintosh wasn’t particularly popular, and few knew how to use them. I found it great fun making fonts from scratch. It took me some time…
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  • An interview with Kunihiko Okano

    johno
    13 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    By Taro Yumiba How and when did you become interested in typography & type design? At university I majored in graphic design. I used to leaf through typeface catalogs in search of letters to use in my poster design assignments. However, I could never find any typefaces that matched perfectly what I had in mind, so I began making my own. I was lucky enough to have access to a Macintosh and Fontographer 3.1 at the university lab. At that time the Macintosh wasn’t particularly popular, and few knew how to use them. I found it great fun making fonts from scratch. It took me some time…

  • An Interview with Verena Gerlach

    johno
    14 Dec 2011 | 2:40 am
    By Ivo Gabrowitsch & Christoph Koeberlin After more than 10 years, Verena Gerlach has revised and extended her FF Karbid super family, an interpretation of German storefront lettering from the early 1900s. The new FF Karbid is a harmonized redesign of the original typeface. Rounder and less narrow letters lend the shapes more space and balance. Although the contrast was reduced to obtain a harmonious monolinear typeface (without losing its liveliness) it was increased in the bolder weights to improve legibility and achieve a certain elegance. FF Karbid Display is the most obvious…

  • Heaven Devoid of Stars

    johno
    18 Nov 2011 | 7:24 am
    The Week in Type More than half a millennium has passed since the invention of moveable type in Europe. It’s now just about impossible to imagine a world without it. That very sentiment is set in ink in this new print collaboration with Stefan Hattenbach. A sumptuous screen-print of gold, white, and black inks on beautiful red Plike paper. A truly stunning print, and perhaps the perfect Christmas gift! It’s been a while (too long) since the last Week in Type, so without further ado: Let’s begin with a smile and this great tee from Able Parris: A lovely short of Robert Warner dancing…

  • Steve Jobs

    johno
    6 Oct 2011 | 4:34 am
    1955–2011 Sponsored by H&FJ. Steve Jobs

  • The making of FF Tundra

    johno
    5 Oct 2011 | 2:32 am
    by Ludwig Übele A line of text is like a silhouette on the horizon. Closer inspection reveals the detail, the trees, bushes, rocks; details that, though only vaguely perceivable from afar, create both rhythm and variation. The beauty of this landscape is born of both regularity and variety. I chose Tundra as the name for my new serif typeface not during the design process, but from the outset. I had in mind this idea of a wide and flat landscape. This was the initial idea: Tundra should lead the eye effortlessly along the line, thus emphasizing the horizontal. This would have been rather…
 
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    The Typekit Blog

  • Sites we like: from Warby Parker, Two Paper Dolls, and more

    Mandy Brown
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:43 pm
    An extra large sites we like to get your weekend off to a good start. Warby Parker’s 2011 Annual Report pairs Robert Slimbach’s Utopia with Mark Simonson’s Proxima Nova Condensed, and some nice CSS transitions. The American Alliance of Unpaid Public Servants celebrates the First Ladies of the United States with Alternate Gothic No. 2 D and Garamond Premier Pro Display. Contents — a new magazine at the intersection of content strategy, online publishing, and new-school editorial work — pairs Abril Display with FF Meta Serif. (Read why Typekit’s Tim Brown…

  • Screening for Linotype: The Film, Tuesday, February 21st

    Mandy Brown
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:45 am
    The Linotype’s unique 90-key keyboard. Typekit is proud to be hosting the West coast premiere of Linotype: The Film, a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, the Linotype revolutionized printing and society. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world. Director Doug Wilson will be on hand to answer questions after the screening. Arrive early for drinks sponsored by Typekit. Tickets are on sale now, but…

  • New from Typekit: Browse by list

    Mandy Brown
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:18 pm
    Starting today, Typekit is rolling out a new way to browse fonts: lists. Lists have been curated by Typekit staff and feature an editorialized means of browsing. Each list features fonts organized by theme, intended use, or defining characteristic. Some of our favorite lists include a list of great rounded fonts, a list of fonts that are good for longform, and a list of condensed headline fonts. New on Typekit: browse by list. Lists are a great place to start when you aren’t quite sure what font you’re after. Need something casual, but aren’t sure what that means? Start with the this…

  • San Francisco Creative Mornings: Friday, January 27th, with Tae Kim

    Mandy Brown
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pm
    Typekit is proud to once again host the San Francisco chapter of Creative Mornings at our headquarters in the Mission. This week’s speaker is Anchorage native, Tae Kim, a former Design Director for The North Face and Timbuk2 and co-founder of Alite Designs — an outdoor company that makes it simple and fun for people to enjoy being outside. The event is free, and breakfast is on us. But be sure to RSVP as space is limited. We hope to see you there!

  • Sites we like: Massive Health, Four Seasons, PandoDaily

    Mandy Brown
    20 Jan 2012 | 1:07 pm
    Better healthcare, lodging, and tech news in this week’s sites we like. Massive Health aims to make health tools that people love to use. Proxima Nova delivers both headlines and body text, its geometric shape and friendly air reinforcing the positive, accessible message. Four Seasons combines Museo Sans, League Gothic, and Adobe Garamond for an upscale and chic look. Museo Sans’ wide, open letterforms contrast nicely with League Gothic’s condensed headlines, while Adobe Garamond lends a bit of sophistication. And new tech site PandoDaily features ARS Maquette. We noted ARS…
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    Typographica

  • Zizou

    Paul van der Laan
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:40 pm
    Roger Excoffon (1910–1983) was the most talented French type designer of the 20th century and probably the most prolific in the whole of French typographic history. Being an admirer of Excoffon’s work myself I was happy to see that 2011 has brought a sudden re-appreciation of his work in the form of no less than two biographies, along with an interesting take on Mistral (called Nouvelle Vague) and Zizou. In the words of designer Christian Schwartz, Zizou is his attempt to “draw Antique Olive from memory”. The name Zizou is a clever and witty reference to the city where Excoffon was…

  • Julien

    Göran Söderström
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:34 pm
    I remember the first time I saw Julien. It was in 2010, on a poster from Tipoplakat. At the time I didn’t know that the strong graphics on the poster were from an upcoming typeface by Peter Biľak. I just enjoyed the poster. In general, geometric typefaces can be really boring and many of them are so incredibly easy to produce with simple copy and paste techniques. So, neither their shapes or their handicraft can easily impress. But Julien is different and I think it’s due to his passion and a strong will to explore the possibility of creating something original – not merely producing…

  • Cala

    Paul Shaw
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:34 pm
    William Morris’ Golden Type, inspired by the founts of Nicolas Jenson, sparked a mania for Venetian types in the 1890s that continued for nearly 30 years. But since World War I the lighter types of “Garamond” and Francesco Griffo have pushed those of Jenson aside. Dieter Hofrichter’s Cala is notable not only as a contemporary Venetian but as one not rooted in the work of Jenson. Cala has the low stroke contrast and sturdy bracketed serifs characteristic of Venetian Oldstyle types but not many of its idiosyncratic letters. The ‘E’, ‘H’, and ‘Z’ are not overly wide; the…

  • Outsiders

    Marian Bantjes
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:34 pm
    Somewhere between the lands of slab, sans serif, and typewriter there lives Outsiders. In the roman it appears an elegant, sartorial slab, somehow holding itself above all others of its kind, with a bit of typewriterly officiousness, like a crisp, upper-level spy in MI6. But under the cloak of propriety in all of its seven weights, is Outsider’s surprising décolletage: a flamboyant, beautiful italic. Quelle surprise – Outsiders is gay! … or perhaps, more insidiously: French. Yes, during the day Outsiders may be sipping tea and filing precise reports, but at night it takes the…

  • Supria Sans

    Nina Stössinger
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:33 pm
    Among recent Grotesque-inspired releases and Hannes von Döhren’s rapidly growing oeuvre, Supria Sans stands out to me as an especially interesting and useful addition. The design has just the right amount of character to be memorable and unique but also restrained enough to remain thoroughly useful. Bypassing the polished rationality of Neo-Grotesques, it builds upon the hearty solidity of 19th-century faces, a heritage revealed in the curled-in jaws of glyphs like the ‘C’ or the faucet-shaped ‘r’. While some details seem quite charming, the design never gets coquettish. With…
 
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    Typblography

  • Adobe to sponsor OpenType development workshops in India

    Paul D. Hunt
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:07 pm
    I am pleased to announce that this year Adobe is one of the sponsors of the Indian Institute of Technology’s Typography Day at its Industrial Design Centre in Mumbai. In connection with this event, I will be presenting on the typesetting capabilities for Indian scripts in Adobe InDesign. This will only be the beginning of my journey…. In order to benefit individuals active in the field of typeface design, I will also be hosting a series of one-day type development workshops in several Indian cities. These workshops will be targeted at helping to foster local type designer and…

  • Season’s Greetings!

    Frank Grießhammer
    20 Dec 2011 | 8:52 pm
    Our holiday card is supposed to set you in the right mood for a sparkling holiday time; click on the image above to experience a truly starry experience! Close observers might even get a glimpse of an unreleased typeface – which has been obfuscated using a seasonal Python script. Happy Holidays – and all the best for 2012 – from the whole Type Team: Caleb Belohlavek Frank Grießhammer Gu Hua Masataka Hattori Paul D. Hunt David Lemon Ken Lunde Ernest March Nicole Minoza Ryoko Nishizuka Read Roberts Steve Ross Robert Slimbach Christopher Slye Miguel Sousa Taro Yamamoto Weizhi Yang  …

  • Looking back, looking forward

    David Lemon
    10 Nov 2011 | 7:44 pm
    Twenty five years ago I worked my first day at Adobe. It was quite exciting; there were about 75 people at the company, all crowded in a small building in East Palo Alto. Everyone knew everyone else, and each person handled many responsibilities. beginnings My first responsibility was editing glyph outlines. We were busily converting fonts in various formats from various sources to Type 1 so they could be used on PostScript printers. Each outline needed manual attention, and we had a lot of characters to add. At the time PostScript was in tough competition with other “page description…

  • How to enable more languages in InDesign CS5.5

    Miguel Sousa
    4 Nov 2011 | 9:00 pm
    Even though InDesign’s linguistic support is reasonably extensive, it covers only a few dozen of the world’s languages. Out of the box you’ll find support for most Western languages, from Bulgarian to Ukrainian, and if you happen to be using a Middle-Eastern (ME) version, you’ll also have support for Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew. List of the languages supported out of the box by InDesign CS5.5 But what about other Arabic languages such as Urdu and Uyghur? Or Indian languages such as Hindi or Tamil? Or even other European languages such as Gaelic? Is it possible to enable…

  • What’s in a name?

    David Lemon
    3 Nov 2011 | 7:55 pm
    The Adobe Type team has been wrestling a bit with Shakespeare’s timeless question as we wrap up some newly-enhanced typeface families here. When we make changes in a typeface that could cause  line lengths different from those produced by the previous version, we believe it’s necessary to change the font name a bit so the two versions can’t be accidentally swapped and reflow people’s existing documents. We usually do this by changing suffixes. Std & Pro One of the biggest changes we ever made was moving the Adobe Type Library into the OpenType format (starting in…
 
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    Typography Served Featured Projects

  • Balam Typeface

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:30 pm
    © Jorge Letona Design 2011.

  • DAS NEU GUTENBERG

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Verticalidad y legibilidad, son las principales características que se usaron para desarrollar "Das Neu Gutenberg" de carácter gótico. Verticality and legibility are the principal characteristics that were used to develop "Das Neu Gutenberg" of Gothic nature.

  • Fil - Typeface - New Weights

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:30 pm
    Fil Typeface

  • Posters for "The Walking Dead"

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:30 pm
    These are not official merchandising of the tv series The Walking Dead. I created so i could have these posters hanging on my wall. If you like it, please send me an email to mrgabrielmarques@gmail.com and found out how you can puschase yours!

  • Lomo Typography

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    New Work
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    Design is Kinky

  • Leif Podhajsky

    Andrew
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm
    Australian artist/creative director, Leif Podhajsky has some new prints for sale.

  • Stupid American Government

    Andrew
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:58 pm
    Ok, it’s all over the internet so you hardly need to hear it from us, but as the Design is Kinky sites are hosted on US based servers we’d like to urge all American viewers to protest against the SOPA bill. Even little sites like ours that occasionally link to the odd Youtube clip could be affected which is beyond ridiculous. So please sign the petition to show your against the morons in the US congress trying to put this through. Info here – www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

  • SP Book Sale

    Andrew
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:04 am
    Just a little heads-up that we have a bit of an online garage sale for the 2011 Semi-Permanent books at the moment. Just $20/book + postage. Pretty good for a 200pg book full of awesome artwork. Click here to have a look.

  • Claudio Kirac

    Murray
    16 Jan 2012 | 5:54 pm
    The ever inspired and inspiring Claudio Kirac is working on an upcoming exhibition, Dreamland – memory of a Journey. Opens Feb 23 through till Mar 6. Will be amazing.

  • Job Post: Broadcast Designer [Sydney]

    Andrew
    15 Jan 2012 | 6:21 pm
    Fox International Channel, the operator of the National Geographic Channel and the new to launch FX entertainment channel is looking for an experienced Broadcast Designer to join their busy and energetic team. This role based in East Sydney will allow the successful candidate to grow and develop their skills and help the team to advance in this fast moving space of television. In the role you will conceptualise, design and produce graphics for broadcast, and occasionally working across other mediums (print, web). You will have 3 to 5 years experience in Broadcast Design, along with experience…
 
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    Chez Porchez

  • Le bureau du futur par Spiekermann

    jfp
    21 Jan 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Sur Arte Creative, une version sous-titrée en français de la vidéo d’Erik Spiekermann à propos du bureau du futur.

  • Help us to find back our A [3]

    jfp
    13 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    France lost one of its A, thanks to Credit rating agencies As typeface designer, A is crucial in my everyday job. Help us to find back our A.

  • Utilisation des fontes numériques

    jfp
    3 Jan 2012 | 1:42 am
    Quelques références à propos de l’usage des caractères typographiques, les licences de fontes numériques (et/ou polices de caractères).

  • The computer as modern art

    jfp
    1 Jan 2012 | 4:30 pm
    A search on other subject just showing this article from Maclean’s, back on 17th October 2011 about Steve Jobs. Based on a discussion on a sunday by phone. Never seen the result before!

  • Tout le monde connaît Roger Excoffon

    jfp
    20 Dec 2011 | 2:48 am
    Ce petit ouvrage doit s’ajouter aux deux autres, que vous avez j’espère déjà?
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    House Industries Show and Tell

  • Sneak Peek

    Andy Cruz
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:11 am
    Fanatical Mechanical: Photo-Lettering and the Paste-Up Era Opens Feb. 6, 2012, 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, Calif.

  • Fanatical Mechanical: Photo-Lettering and the Paste-Up Era

    Rich Roat
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:49 pm
    Photo-Lettering Show Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery Orange, Calif. Feb. 6 – March 9, 2012

  • Back in Black and Back in Stock

    Rich Roat
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    Our classic House script high-visibility sweat wicking Merino wool jersey turns any ride or rare sedentary social situation that permits a heavily-branded athletic garment into an exquisitely epic experience not unlike forgetting to wash high-heat embrocation off your hands before going to the bathroom. Pick one up for your personal Paris Roubaix!

  • Photo-Lettering Show at Chapman University

    Rich Roat
    18 Jan 2012 | 11:11 am
    Fanatical Mechanical: Photo-Lettering and the Paste-Up Era Opening: Feb. 6, 2012, 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. With on-site screen printing by Fresh Pressed! Opening Lecture: Rich Roat of House Industries, Feb. 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m. Place: Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, Calif. Exhibition Runs from Feb. 6 through March 9, 2012 Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. House Industries celebrates the craft of Photo-Lettering’s past while presenting it in the context of contemporary relevance. David Dodde’s prodigious hand-printed panels and substantial scrims mingle with…

  • Kunihiko on Photo-Lettering's Quintet

    Ben Kiel
    13 Jan 2012 | 10:16 am
    Kunihiko Okano talks about the origins of his Quintet design with Taro Yumiba in an interview on I Love Typography. From social networks to Typographic Chinese Whispers to Gordian Knots, Kunihiko ranges far and wide in his process.
 
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    LetterCult

  • BEST OF 2011 – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

    admin
    3 Jan 2012 | 10:19 pm

  • ALPHABATTLE – &

    Beejay
    18 Jul 2011 | 10:02 pm
    &ND WE’RE DONE! Next week, a wrap-up. Thanks to everyone who participated. MARCOS CALAMATO FLORIN FLOREA JUSTIN CHODZKO ALEX LUTKUS RORY PHILLIPS

  • ALPHABATTLE – 0

    Beejay
    4 Jul 2011 | 10:36 pm
    ZERO! In two weeks, we’ll finish AlphaBattle with the AMPERSAND. Submit by July 17, with publication on July 18. A week later, we’ll do a wrap-up. JUSTIN CHODZKO ALEX LUTKUS RORY PHILLIPS

  • ALPHABATTLE – 9

    Beejay
    20 Jun 2011 | 10:18 pm
    NINE! We’ll continue with ZERO in two weeks. Submit by July 3, with publication on the Fourth of July. After that is ampersand, and then we’ll do a wrap-up. JUSTIN CHODZKO ALEX LUTKUS RORY PHILLIPS

  • ALPHABATTLE – 8

    Beejay
    6 Jun 2011 | 10:10 pm
    EIGHT! Nearing the finish line. We’ll continue with the Number 9 in two weeks. Submit by June 19, with publication on June 20. After that, zero, ampersand, and then we’ll do a wrap-up. JUSTIN CHODZKO ALEX LUTKUS TIM CANNY
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    Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook

  • Casin(o)

    Mark Simonson
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:15 pm
    Seen in La Crosse, Wisconsin, April 2, 2010.

  • Posterity and How We Save Stuff

    Mark Simonson
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:54 pm
    Earlier today I watched this wonderful presentation by Jeremy Keith that he gave at the Build conference. He touches on something I’ve thought about for a long time, going back even before personal computers: The long term prospect of the media we record things on—paper, records, magnetic tape, film, video tape, floppy disks, compact disc, DVDs, hard drives and servers. I had almost the same thought as Jeremy: I picture archaeologists in the distant future studying what remains of our culture and finding lots of documents and records right up until around the end of the twentieth…

  • Way Too Tight

    Mark Simonson
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pm
    Seen in Saint Paul, Minnesota, July 5, 2010.

  • More on Uncle Knut at CCA

    Mark Simonson
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:02 pm
    One more follow up on the item I posted last week, in which I mentioned my uncle Knut who worked as a designer at Container Corporation of America…. After I posted that, Knut sent me a photo of the cookie package he designed: This was (I believe) one of the first packages for Keebler chocolate chip cookies, and my uncle’s first printed package design. It debuted in July 1967. It seems so tasteful and restrained compared to the modern equivalent. I was very impressed by this as a budding artist. It put into my mind the notion that, if you were good, your work could be seen by…

  • More From Route 66: Barstow

    Mark Simonson
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:11 pm
    Shot in Barstow, California, on August 17, 2010.
 
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    Ralf Herrmann: Wayfinding & Typography

  • Info graphic: Development of the Major Outline Font Formats

    Ralf Herrmann
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:03 am
    For years I try to explain to people, what OpenType really means and in which way it differs from TrueType and in which way it doesn’t. And I explain to people that it is safe to use a Windows TrueType font on the Mac in the year 2012 … (See my older article OpenType myths [...]

  • Using webfonts to insert characters or symbols in a website

    Ralf Herrmann
    9 Jan 2012 | 8:50 am
    Using webfonts to insert characters or symbols in a website—Or why is Opera screwing up my font stacks? Back in 2008, shortly after Apple started the new webfont revolution with the release of Safari 3.1, I wrote an article about how the webfont technology could be used to insert certain glyphs or vector objects like logos [...]

  • Tricycle Calligraphy

    Ralf Herrmann
    2 Jan 2012 | 8:52 am
    Media Artist Nicholas Hanna built a tricycle that can also paint Chinese characters on the ground as it moves. Water Calligraphy has a long history in China, normally characterized by older Chinese men painting characters on the ground of parks with long brushes and water. But Nicholas’ version is a wee bit more complicated … [...]

  • 99 do’s and don’ts of Wayfinding

    Ralf Herrmann
    28 Dec 2011 | 6:50 am
    The Dutch wayfinding experts from Mijksenaar released an app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, that collects best practices around signage and wayfinding design. The app contains a set of rules-of-thumb and the content of the app is meant to engage in discussion and understanding for wayfinding amongst professionals, designers and novices. Wayfinding and architecture have more [...]

  • Cities and their typographic associations

    Ralf Herrmann
    27 Dec 2011 | 8:37 am
    In this series of videos for the EF International Language Centers the director Gustav Johansson captures the stories of three different students who travel abroad to study a new language. Everywhere they go they communicate in the local language and pick up new vocabulary, illustrated with gorgeous artifact-style typography by Albin Holmqvist. The first four “Live the language” films shot [...]
 
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    The FontFeed

  • Jean Jacques Peters 1941–2012

    Yves Peters
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:32 am
    After battling a very aggressive cancer for over a year, yesterday evening my father chose to not let his illness have the last word. I feel very fortunate that we live in a civilized, humane country, where a person at the end of his life can decide to leave with dignity, without any more needless suffering. Somewhat related – I would like to apologise to the people coming to tonight’s BNO Romeo Delta evening CUT! in Rotterdam for not showing up. The organisation is looking into rescheduling my presentation at a later date, most probably the next IMG LAB evening on February 20th.

  • Funky Experimental Typographic Poetry In Flickermood

    Yves Peters
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:50 am
    The weekend is upon us, and I am feeling in a strangely funky mood today – not that I have any reason to. I thought I’d throw an animated typography classic at you. Type designer and MA Typeface Design alumnus from the University of Reading Paul Hunt once suggested Flickermood for inclusion in the Typophile Film Fest. This video was directed and animated by Sebastian Lange, motion designer at Qu-Int. Text fragments from the poem Mutability by 19th century English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley were animated in Adobe AfterEffects, flawlessly synchronised to an edit of the contemporary…

  • FontFont Focus: FF Good, FF More, FF Best!

    Yves Peters
    19 Jan 2012 | 1:30 pm
    One of the things the FontFont library is known for are its extensive type families that cross type classifications. The jury is still out whether we should call them super families or type systems, but one thing is sure – these co-ordinated type families of serif and sans serif companions (and sometimes even more) are ideally suited for graphic identities, complex publications, editorial design and so on. While some like FF Nexus were specifically conceived as such, others start as humble typefaces with a couple of styles and gradually expand into sprawling typographic systems. The…

  • ScreenFonts: Shame; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    Yves Peters
    13 Jan 2012 | 7:27 pm
    My busy half year is about to kick in high gear. The first of my six presentations – one a month – is at the BNO Romeo Delta evening CUT! on Monday, January 23, at De Unie in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The evening is entirely dedicated to the magic of the silver screen, but from a designer’s viewpoint. Move over film stars, it’s time for the creators of movie posters, title sequences, art direction and special effects to walk the red carpet. It promises to be a very entertaining evening. Invitation for the event designed by Villadinamica Four 20-minute presentations are…

  • Album Covers Recreated In Clip-Art And Comic Sans

    Yves Peters
    11 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm
    Joni Mitchell sang in Big Yellow Taxi “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” This concept is illustrated with wit and humour on the Tumblr log Clipart Covers. Under the banner “Purists beware!” classic (and not so classic) album covers are recreated in clip-art and Comic Sans. I know I sometimes rail against poor imagery and inappropriate typography in my My Type of Music series, but those transgressions pale when compared to the hilarious mediocrity on display here. A good song can be successfully performed on a simple acoustic…
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    upscale typography

  • 2012 Typography Annual - Winners Announced

    admin
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:44 am
    For the second consecutive year Communication Arts held its annual typography and type design competition in search for the best typography of the year. The 2012 Typography Annual showcases the 150 winning projects selected by a distinguished panel of jurors such as Richard Kegler, Erik Spiekermann and Tiffany Wardle de Sousa. More than 1,700 entries were [...]

  • A Type Navigator for innovative foundries

    admin
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:52 am
    Supply and demand in the area of typographic design is growing considerably in recent years. Since the introduction of digital fonts and their promotion via the internet, typography has gained a new significance. Type Navigator is the new essential handbook of independent type foundries and innovative type designers from around the world. It comes with an [...]

  • Inspiring typographic package design

    admin
    16 Nov 2011 | 7:50 am
    Typography has become an important sales tool and some kind of a trend in package design. The visual personality of type and its association to certain emotions, is important when it comes to selling the product and attracting the right audience. Having this in mind, we collected a number of packages which are just inspiring if not [...]

  • Type is cool, so is music!

    admin
    10 Nov 2011 | 9:24 am
    Expressing yourself with words and type, can be really convincing and cool to see. The following images are some scenes from Mecna’s videoclip under the title “Super”, edited by Corrado Grilli and directed by The Boss a.k.a Nicky Beach. The lyrics, the rap, the editing and typography design is all from scratch. Scroll down to [...]

  • S Moda Revolutionizes Spanish Fashion Weekend

    admin
    6 Oct 2011 | 2:51 am
    S Moda is a “newborn” weekly trendsetting fashion magazine which is published alongside the Saturday edition of the Spanish newspaper EL PAÍS. Its emphasis is on women’s fashion, interviews, design, travel, leisure, social trends and the world of beauty. As EL PAÍS points out “S Moda will attempt to go beyond fashion shows, it will treat [...]
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    Typophile - News

  • TDC Non-Latin Intensive 2012

    Maxim Zhukov
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:54 pm
    Type Directors Club has posted an announcement of TDC Non-Latin Weekends, a series of professional seminars and workshops on non-Latin type design. The first seminar in the series of four will address the problems related to the design of Cyrillic typefaces. It is scheduled to take place from Friday, March 2 to Sunday, March 4, 2012. Reservations to TDC Cyrillic Week-End are now open. Seating is limited. A similar series of seminars was offered by TDC five years ago. Detailed information on TDC Cyrillic Week-End 2007 is available on the Type Directors Club’s Web site. It was also discussed…

  • Design Legends & Luminaries Slated to Speak at TYPO San Francisco

    Jared Benson
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:08 pm
    Design Legends & Luminaries Slated to Speak at TYPO San Francisco Contact: Meghan Arnold, sanfrancisco@typotalks.com, +1.415.813.5992 Jessica Hische, Neville Brody, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Michael Bierut and Erik Spiekermann will share a stage April 5-6 at TYPO San Francisco. With an emphasis on design, society, culture – with a little bit of kerning, TYPO San Francisco, based on one of Europe’s most successful design conferences, will take place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), centering around the theme Connect. The two-day conference will feature a diverse array of local and…

  • New Release: Abril Display Black

    typetogether
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    One of TypeTogether's latest releases, the Abril type family, keeps growing. We added two new fonts to the display part of this successful typeface. Abril Display Black and Abril Display Black Italic grant yet a bolder and more contrasted option that is suitable for the biggest headlines and signs. Learn more about Abril typeface at: http://www.type-together.com/Abril

  • Stan - a contrasted slabserif

    Bald Condensed
    20 Jan 2012 | 4:23 am
    De Pinte, Belgium - January 12, 2012 Ten years ago, one would have hardly believed that slab serifs would regain the popularity they enjoy today, or that they would again occupy such a commanding position in the design of advertisements, magazines and newspapers. The slab serif, as a genre of letter, came into existence in the early nineteenth century. The first slab serifs were crude looking, even grotesque. Their fat, squarish proportions, monoline forms and dark colour served one goal above all: to make a powerful and compelling impression on readers. Like the nearly contemporary sans…

  • Monotype Imaging and Google Collaborate to Make Web Fonts Better

    jenn_1610
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:26 am
    Monotype Imaging’s Fonts.com Web Fonts team and Google have been brainstorming ways to make Web fonts better. Looking to reduce Web font file sizes, the Google Web Fonts team began working closely with Monotype to discuss the advantages of their patented MicroType® Express (MTX) algorithm. The results led to the joint conclusion that in order to truly maximize the value of this technology, it needed to be adopted by Web browsers and font tools. It was decided that the greatest benefits would be achieved by sharing MTX with the entire Web community. As a result, Monotype Imaging has agreed…
 
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    Type Specimen Pool

  • Písmo pro ocel-Dezcom

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:47 pm
    Dezcom has added a photo to the pool: Dezcom releases Dez Yinz'nat "Dez Yinznat" is a condensed stencil Opentype-savvy sans serif inspired by the industrial city of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Stencil type was often used in the steel mills, scrap metal yards, railroads, warehouses, and other industrial institutions of Pittsburgh and is almost a signature for the City. This font is dedicated to the hard-working people who made steel then and now. From Homestead Works, Pittsburgh and other American mill towns from Gary south to Birmingham and across the Atlantic to Europe's Hamburg,…

  • HEIß-Schriften!

    22 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Dezcom has added a photo to the pool: Hot typeface, Dez Yinz'nat, released on MyFonts.com new.myfonts.com/fonts/dezcom/dez-yinznat-stencil/

  • GTFOH Script

    22 Jan 2012 | 2:22 pm
    johnkanesmith has added a photo to the pool:

  • GTFOH Sketch

    22 Jan 2012 | 2:22 pm
    johnkanesmith has added a photo to the pool:

  • dez Yinz'nat Released--Pour it on!

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:31 am
    Dezcom has added a photo to the pool: Dez Yinz'nat Stencil typeface has been released!
 
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    Ministry of Type

  • Lettered Department Store Logos

    Aegir Hallmundur
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    This is something I’ve had open in a browser tab for months, and I’m sure it’s officially ‘old’ in internet parlance, but I’m still drawing inspiration from the images. Christian Annyas has isolated (and traced?) these old department store logos and made quite a collection of them. He makes the point that very few stores today use similar lettered styles to these, and that they go for a logo style that “won’t offend” — I wonder though, if all these logos were created with a similar sentiment in mind? After all, brands in a sector do tend…

  • The Wacom Inkling

    Aegir Hallmundur
    7 Nov 2011 | 10:47 am
    Wacom have (finally) started sending out orders of their new product, the Inkling. I got mine the other day and I’ve been having a good play with it. It’s very good. Not perfect, but very good. The announcement video set some very high expectations, some of which are matched by reality, while some… aren’t. The whole idea of the device is to record what you draw so that you can import it into image editing programs later, either as a bitmap or (more excitingly) as a vector image. It keeps a track of every stroke, in the order you made them, and records how hard you were…

  • The Ludlow Project

    Aegir Hallmundur
    4 Nov 2011 | 9:57 am
    A bit of a campaigning post, this one. The International Printing Museum is running a Kickstarter campaign to expand their collection of matrices for the Ludlow Typograph. It’s a worthy project, to keep an example of fairly democratic technology in use and in people’s awareness, to keep rare typefaces in use and to let people around the world use them – and, well, just because. The Ludlow is similar to the Linotype, but excels at producing slugs for very large type - over 200pt. In the words of British Letterpress: The principles behind the Ludlow are simple — the operator…

  • The Typography of Speed

    Aegir Hallmundur
    4 Nov 2011 | 9:17 am
    I was taken by this collection of Chevy speedometer designs brought together by Christian Annyas. As I’m always a passenger (I don’t drive) I’ve had plenty of time to study the details of the dashboard and to note the little typographic touches there. Purely graphically I much prefer the horizontal kind of indicator, but in terms of function the dial has an advantage in that the numbers are spaced evenly. The horizontal kind means it’s harder to differentiate at a glance between speeds in the centre of the speedometer, simply because they’re bunched together.

  • The Guardian iPad App

    Aegir Hallmundur
    18 Oct 2011 | 9:36 am
    The Guardian now has an iPad app. Previously if you wanted to read Guardian content on an iPad you could read the website, use the iPhone app or attempt the Digital Edition. I used to subscribe to the Digital Edition, a downloadable PDF of the paper (now with an online viewer) in exactly the same form as it was printed. By the looks of it, it’s much improved these days. I cancelled my subscription fairly quickly, because while it was good for reading some articles, seeing things like “continued on page 5” with no hyperlink felt weird, and some of the diagrams in articles had…
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    Swiss Legacy

  • Hannah Starkey, 29 pictures

    Xavier Encinas
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:55 pm
    Images should tell a story, they are a lingering snippet of time, that leaves the viewer questioning, what has just happened? What is about to happen? Why are these people there? What are they doing? Is the composition set up? Why has it been set up that way? Hannah Starkey uses actors in carefully chosen settings to create lingering pictures in time that raise all of these questions, in choosing women that are ‘ordinary’ and clothed, she is challenging the ‘raunchy aspect’ of how women are represented in everyday imagery. Her work, creates a counter aesthetic for representing women.

  • Self-promotional poster by PupilPeople

    Xavier Encinas
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:56 am
    594mm x 841mm 90gsm Recypal 1-colour offset print + glow-in-the-dark screen print Ships in poster tubes Available over at PupilPeople.

  • Okumura Akio exhibition by UMA/design farm

    Xavier Encinas
    22 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
    Exhibition design: Experience, Communication [Okumura Akio and works] @ddd gallery, Osaka Japan January 18 – March 8, 2012 UMA/design farm designed an exhibition of graphic designer Mr.Akio Okumura. Contents is his 40 years work and ‘now-future’ work. Exhibition was divided in four parts, Package / Poster / VI (logo animation and logo cards) / Mr. Akio Okumura’s studio (stay production). Each part was separated by partitions that are 1,000 mm height. Visitors can feel Mr. Akio Okumura’s existence from anywhere in the room. And when they squat down, they can focus…

  • Introducing Marian typeface by Commercial Type

    Xavier Encinas
    12 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am
    Commercial Type is pleased to announce the release of Marian, a new typeface family in 19 styles designed by Paul Barnes. Marian is a series of faithful revivals of some of the classics from the typographic canon: Austin, Baskerville, Bodoni, Fournier, Fleischman, Garamont, Granjon, Kis and van den Keere. The twist is that they have all been rendered as a hairline of near uniform weight, revealing the basic structure at the heart of the letterforms. Together they represent a concept: to recreate the past both for and in the present. Stretching over a period of nearly two and a half centuries…

  • Peter Ross wants to know which five people you would invite for dinner

    Xavier Encinas
    12 Jan 2012 | 3:56 am
    A 20 page tabloid style promotion by designed Jennifer Lee at VSA Partners for Peter Ross portrait photography, in which the subjects are asked to name the five people that they would most like to invite to dinner.
 
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    Geotypografika

  • Typografika / Enter the Dragon

    Erik Brandt
    2 Jan 2012 | 8:52 am
    Wishing you a Happy New Year, 2012. Above: Erik Brandt with an anagram poem by Elisabeth Workman (A1, 2011). Wishing you and yours all the best for the New Year. Related posts: Typografika / Beatrix Six Word Story Every Day Elisabeth Workman / Dusie

  • Anton Pearson

    Erik Brandt
    27 Nov 2011 | 6:36 pm
    Poster for Åbäke’s West Coast lecture series. Above: AntonPearson, screenprint (18″ x 24″), 2011. A lovely bit of work for Åbäke as they continue their trek across the country, with upcoming lectures at CalArts and the CCA. Anton’s commission celebrates his experimental and hand crafted approach, see more details on his own site here. Bravo, Anton! Hup, Åbäke! Related posts: MCAD 125 / Two Posters GRD_2000_SP10 Final P004 Marina Córdova Alvéstegui / La Paz

  • Tim Tozer / New Work

    Erik Brandt
    25 Oct 2011 | 10:25 pm
    Stunning visions of structure and direction. Above: Tim Tozer, Blindside (2011, detail). It’s a rare and distinct privilege to visit with a master who is exploring something new, and that in a superbly nostalgic and yet completely contemporary way. Such is the case in anticipation of Tim’s upcoming opening of New Work at the Groveland Gallery (Oct. 28, 2011). Compared with his remarkable figurative work last featured here, these new two-color projections are both abstract and joyous. But regardless of my opinion, it is perhaps best to let the artist himself explain these new…

  • Rick Poynor

    Erik Brandt
    27 Sep 2011 | 8:10 am
    World-renowned design critic and author to visit MCAD. Above: MCAD student Peter Steineck’s GIFs for the upcoming Rick Poynor lecture on October 5, 2011 (6:30PM) in MCAD Auditorium 150. We are honored and delighted to welcome Rick to Minneapolis and remind all that the lecture is open to the public. Please join us as Rick discusses his views on graphic design, in past, present, and future tense. For more on our guest, please visit Design Observer, where Rick regularly posts and shares (more on Facebook here). Rick Poynor Wednesday Oct. 5, 2011 6:30 PM MCAD Auditorium 150 2501 Stevens…

  • Onlab Summer School 2011

    Erik Brandt
    23 Sep 2011 | 2:23 pm
    Chronology of a Failure Above: Assembled covers for the Onlab publication, photo via Lauren Thorson‘s Flickr set. Lauren was accepted as part of Onlab’s Summer School 2011, initiated and guided by Nicolas Bourquin and Thibaud Tissot. An international group of designers assembled to create this unique publication, around the theme, Chronology of a Failure. While the publication will not be for sale, Onlab has released some exclusive images, and you can also see more via Lauren’s Flickr sets, including one featuring her discoveries in Berlin. Hope to see more soon……
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    You Should Like Type Too

  • My favorite image of 2011

    Rob
    31 Dec 2011 | 9:10 am
    December 31. There are 8 hours left in the year, but I think it’s soon enough to declare my favorite image of the year. It was taken by Dave Foster of ‘current KABK student’ fame. The pic is from a powerpoint presentation by Linotype… Source

  • Seizure-Inducing Berlin Christmas Market

    Rob
    26 Dec 2010 | 4:40 am
    If you’ve made it this far through the post, I should add that these animations in no way represent all German Christmas markets. These images were taken at a particularly tacky market that concerns itself more with drinking and rides (vs. those focused on drinking, eating, and shopping). You can find this crazy light show behind the Alexa shopping center for basically all of December (and maybe a bit into January) each year. For a considerably nicer/calmer/quieter experience simply walk a few hundred meters to the Fernsehturm/Alexanderplatz and check out the market in front of the…

  • A few letters from Tel Aviv

    Rob
    1 Dec 2010 | 7:57 am
    I visited Israel for the first time this summer to meet up with my friend Oded Ezer (more on our reasons for this visit later…). It was July, outside was a million degrees with a million percent humidy, but there were unlimited typographical treasures, plentiful air conditioning, and hummous that would blow your mind. Aside from the 10kg of weight I lost through sweating, it was an incredible trip and a great place to visit – maybe you’d like go during the slightly cooler months though.

  • Halloween 2010

    Rob
    30 Nov 2010 | 3:20 am
    I haven’t done anything on/for Halloween in years. Last month I decided to get out of the house and pay tribute to the awesome typographer/designer Florian Hardwig. His “Neue Welt” portrait is something of a local legend, and in honor of this I set out to reenact it. I shared my “costume” via twitter: Celebrating Halloween today: http://flic.kr/p/8PoeW4 A couple hours later Florian responded with this: @rnkeller Here we go. http://twitpic.com/32ktag He pulled off recreating my profile pic in a matter of minutes. Florian is amazing, funny, talented, and an all…

  • TypeTalks 2010 Brno

    Rob
    6 Jul 2010 | 8:31 am
    Quite a bit has already been said about the first TypeTalks symposium in Brno, Czech Republic. Several colleagues have written some great accounts of the event, so I will be brief here as to not repeat everything. But for more in-depth descriptions you really should check out these posts: — Florian Hardwig (German Part 1, Part 2) (Translated to English Part 1, Part 2) — Michael Hochleitner — Dan Reynolds   The Brno House of Arts, Dům umění města Brna, was the perfect venue.   The man responsible for organizing this one day event was my friend David Březina.   Florian…
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    The FontGear Blog

  • Plenty of Fish in the C

    fontgear
    19 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    And other things we have been liking the past few weeks…enjoy! by Jay Fleck by Nicholas Stevenson - a logo for the band Foxx Bandits this free font – as well as a list of others collected by smashing magazine.

  • Typography Sketchbooks

    fontgear
    11 Jan 2012 | 7:21 pm
    Weighing in at just over 3 pounds and 350 pages – Typography Sketchbook features the doodlings of nearly 120 designers & typographers from their personal notebooks – including Erikk Spiekermann, Milton Glaser, Maira Calman & Paul Shaw. Each designer also has a mini-essay included along with their sketches.  It seems to us to be the perfect fix to inspire & chase away the winter blues.

  • Type Meets Home

    fontgear
    30 Dec 2011 | 7:15 pm
    Designed by Linus Dean. A graphic designer with a passion for making floors awesome. This Australian designer has created a collection of bold, striking wool rugs we love. You can see the entire collection here.

  • Font Dropper

    fontgear
    20 Dec 2011 | 4:06 pm
    Our friends at Extensis & WebInk have a new product you may have hear of called FontDropper 1000  - a drag & drop web font tester. To get started: Drag a bookmarklet (like the one shown here) to your browser bookmark bar Go to a web page & open the FontDropper 1000 bookmarklet Drag-and-drop fonts from the bookmarklet onto any live text on a web page. You will see the text background highlight and then you can drop the font. The font will apply to the text and you can use the Tools tab to change font style properties. Reapply the same font to more of the page text either repeat…

  • FontGenius 2.5

    fontgear
    12 Dec 2011 | 10:22 am
    CHARLOTTE, NC – FontGear Inc. announced today the release of FontGenius for Macintosh v2.5. FontGenius is a font identification utility for Macintosh. FontGenius examines pictures and identifies typefaces of any text within a picture. Using advanced recognition technology, FontGenius will produce a list of likely fonts that match selected characters within an image, and will generate character previews of the matched fonts. Using the matched results, a search can be performed on the internet or your own Mac to locate, download, or purchase matched fonts. Version 2.5 new features include…
 
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    Typography Served Featured Projects

  • Balam Typeface

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:30 pm
    © Jorge Letona Design 2011.

  • DAS NEU GUTENBERG

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Verticalidad y legibilidad, son las principales características que se usaron para desarrollar "Das Neu Gutenberg" de carácter gótico. Verticality and legibility are the principal characteristics that were used to develop "Das Neu Gutenberg" of Gothic nature.

  • Fil - Typeface - New Weights

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:30 pm
    Fil Typeface

  • Posters for "The Walking Dead"

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:30 pm
    These are not official merchandising of the tv series The Walking Dead. I created so i could have these posters hanging on my wall. If you like it, please send me an email to mrgabrielmarques@gmail.com and found out how you can puschase yours!

  • Lomo Typography

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    New Work
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    All Things Tagxedo

  • Post to Twitter and Facebook Directly From Tagxedo

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:02 pm
    Good news! You can now post your Tagxedo artwork to Twitter or Facebook directly from Tagxedo. There are the Twitter and Facebook buttons at the lower left corner of the Tagxedo app. Clicking either one of them brings up a simple dialog, with the picture: Let's say you click the Twitter button. Go ahead and edit the tweet, or leave it alone (by default, it says "Check out this gorgeous artwork I made with Tagxedo!"), and then press the "Post to Twitter" button. A new window will popup and ask for your permission to post to Twitter on your behalf. Note: If you don't see any popup window,…

  • Simple Slum G, the Perfect Word Cloud Font?

    12 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pm
    Three months ago I added a new font called "Simple Slum G" to Tagxedo's font collection. It's funky, playful, a bit weird. And it has a strange name. But it has now becomes my favorite font, by far. In my opinion, at least for now, it is the perfect font for Tagxedo. Check out the following Simple Slum G artworks from Daily Tagxedo. Since its October debut, this font has been featured in at least 80% of the Daily Tagxedoes. I didn't do it out of laziness. Instead, Simple Slum G simply looks and feels better than the alternatives. See the full gallery on Posterous What make this font special?

  • Snowflake in Snowflake (Merry Christmas!)

    25 Dec 2011 | 11:22 pm
    I found a very nice "Snowflake" font http://www.fontspace.com/skeldale-house-treasures/ryp-snowflake-8 and immediately loaded it into Tagxedo to see how it looks. The font has glyphs for exactly 26 characters, A to Z. So I typed in "A B C D ... Z", turned on "Normalize Frequency", turned on "Allow Duplication", turned off "Remove Common Words", selected the snowflake shape, and voila! Nice isn't it? It's a bit late, but still, Merry Christmas to all! Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • RIP, Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C

    12 Oct 2011 | 11:30 pm
    We lost a tech giant today. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and the C programming language with Ken Thompson, has passed away at the age of 70. Ritchie has made a tremendous amount of contribution to the computer industry, directly and indirectly affecting (improving) the lives of most people in the world, whether you know it or not. I am very fond of the C programming language. Despite all its flaws, I love the simplicity of C, and the raw power it gives me. And his book "The C Programming Language" (co-authored with Brian Kernighan) truly set a standard for…

  • A Small Tribute to Steve Jobs

    6 Oct 2011 | 11:31 am
    Here's my small tribute to the great visionary of our time. RIP, Steve Jobs. Permalink | Leave a comment  »
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    Marsid M&M Group Blog

  • Adding Video to your Printed Marketing Materials for Free

    Giovanni
    10 Jan 2012 | 2:14 pm
      In this post we will explore in detail how to beef up your printed marketing materials by adding your own custom video and making it easy for your customers to share the video as well. I am sure some of you reading this right now are imagining small screens, wires and batteries or mini-DVDs glued to the inside of your media kits. Well, that’s not the case, it’s not that complicated and it’s free! Adding the video to your printed marketing materials is done in 3 easy steps and all 3 tools needed are available freely on the Internet. Video Distribution The first step,…

  • A Holiday Greeting Card to Remember

    Giovanni
    22 Nov 2011 | 12:19 pm
      With the holidays in proximity, we begin the yearly cycle of gift buying, long lines, figuring out who’s hosting Thanksgiving dinner, making sure those gifts are in the mail by a certain date, and all the other craziness that comes with the holiday season. For businesses it’s not so much the case, but appreciation is due to those who keep you in business and those who help your business thrive.   Holiday Greeting Cards Expectations With every gift or even as a gift in itself, a holiday greeting card is expected. It could be for your employees, your clients, your…

  • Printing Terms Infographic – Color Quick Guide

    Giovanni
    7 Oct 2011 | 1:47 pm
    We strongly believe that an informed customer can make all the difference in print jobs going smoothly and without misunderstandings. I’m sure it goes for any industry. We strive to offer a unique and pleasant experience when working with us. By providing our customers with informative collateral we not only educate our customer, but we also ease the lines of communication which instills confidence in our customer that what they are ordering is exactly what they want. It’s logical, it makes sense. With the recent popularity and practicality found in infographics, we decided to…

  • Creating Outlines from Type in Illustrator and InDesign

    John
    19 Sep 2011 | 2:39 pm
    Why Do We Need to Outline Our Type? Before sending a file to a printer, there are a few important steps that must be considered.  One of those is making sure that the type in the document is turned into outlines.  If the printer needs to make an adjustment to the file (fix color, adjust bleeds, etc.)  and the type is not outlined, there could be font issues that cause the copy to change or re-flow.  Sometimes these changes may not be noticed until after the job is printed.  It is a very simple process that only takes a moment.  Once it is done, the type is turned from a type box to…

  • Design Tutorial: Offset Path Tool in Adobe Illustrator

    John
    25 Aug 2011 | 10:33 am
    Using the Offset Path Tool in Adobe Illustrator This tool is one of my favorites within Illustrator.  It does exactly as the name suggests, it creates a duplicate of an object with the path set off by a specified distance.  It can create replicas of different size with standard distances between the original and replica and easily creates concentric shapes. It is great for creating large or smaller versions of objects or creating outlines that are shapes.  It is also great for creating outlines around large groups of objects and creating shadows that are actual objects that can be edited…
 
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    Ministry of Type

  • Lettered Department Store Logos

    Aegir Hallmundur
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    This is something I’ve had open in a browser tab for months, and I’m sure it’s officially ‘old’ in internet parlance, but I’m still drawing inspiration from the images. Christian Annyas has isolated (and traced?) these old department store logos and made quite a collection of them. He makes the point that very few stores today use similar lettered styles to these, and that they go for a logo style that “won’t offend” — I wonder though, if all these logos were created with a similar sentiment in mind? After all, brands in a sector do tend…

  • The Wacom Inkling

    Aegir Hallmundur
    7 Nov 2011 | 10:47 am
    Wacom have (finally) started sending out orders of their new product, the Inkling. I got mine the other day and I’ve been having a good play with it. It’s very good. Not perfect, but very good. The announcement video set some very high expectations, some of which are matched by reality, while some… aren’t. The whole idea of the device is to record what you draw so that you can import it into image editing programs later, either as a bitmap or (more excitingly) as a vector image. It keeps a track of every stroke, in the order you made them, and records how hard you were…

  • The Ludlow Project

    Aegir Hallmundur
    4 Nov 2011 | 9:57 am
    A bit of a campaigning post, this one. The International Printing Museum is running a Kickstarter campaign to expand their collection of matrices for the Ludlow Typograph. It’s a worthy project, to keep an example of fairly democratic technology in use and in people’s awareness, to keep rare typefaces in use and to let people around the world use them – and, well, just because. The Ludlow is similar to the Linotype, but excels at producing slugs for very large type - over 200pt. In the words of British Letterpress: The principles behind the Ludlow are simple — the operator…

  • The Typography of Speed

    Aegir Hallmundur
    4 Nov 2011 | 9:17 am
    I was taken by this collection of Chevy speedometer designs brought together by Christian Annyas. As I’m always a passenger (I don’t drive) I’ve had plenty of time to study the details of the dashboard and to note the little typographic touches there. Purely graphically I much prefer the horizontal kind of indicator, but in terms of function the dial has an advantage in that the numbers are spaced evenly. The horizontal kind means it’s harder to differentiate at a glance between speeds in the centre of the speedometer, simply because they’re bunched together.

  • The Guardian iPad App

    Aegir Hallmundur
    18 Oct 2011 | 9:36 am
    The Guardian now has an iPad app. Previously if you wanted to read Guardian content on an iPad you could read the website, use the iPhone app or attempt the Digital Edition. I used to subscribe to the Digital Edition, a downloadable PDF of the paper (now with an online viewer) in exactly the same form as it was printed. By the looks of it, it’s much improved these days. I cancelled my subscription fairly quickly, because while it was good for reading some articles, seeing things like “continued on page 5” with no hyperlink felt weird, and some of the diagrams in articles had…
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    I love typography, the typography and fonts blog

  • An interview with Kunihiko Okano

    johno
    13 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    By Taro Yumiba How and when did you become interested in typography & type design? At university I majored in graphic design. I used to leaf through typeface catalogs in search of letters to use in my poster design assignments. However, I could never find any typefaces that matched perfectly what I had in mind, so I began making my own. I was lucky enough to have access to a Macintosh and Fontographer 3.1 at the university lab. At that time the Macintosh wasn’t particularly popular, and few knew how to use them. I found it great fun making fonts from scratch. It took me some time…

  • An Interview with Verena Gerlach

    johno
    14 Dec 2011 | 2:40 am
    By Ivo Gabrowitsch & Christoph Koeberlin After more than 10 years, Verena Gerlach has revised and extended her FF Karbid super family, an interpretation of German storefront lettering from the early 1900s. The new FF Karbid is a harmonized redesign of the original typeface. Rounder and less narrow letters lend the shapes more space and balance. Although the contrast was reduced to obtain a harmonious monolinear typeface (without losing its liveliness) it was increased in the bolder weights to improve legibility and achieve a certain elegance. FF Karbid Display is the most obvious…

  • Heaven Devoid of Stars

    johno
    18 Nov 2011 | 7:24 am
    The Week in Type More than half a millennium has passed since the invention of moveable type in Europe. It’s now just about impossible to imagine a world without it. That very sentiment is set in ink in this new print collaboration with Stefan Hattenbach. A sumptuous screen-print of gold, white, and black inks on beautiful red Plike paper. A truly stunning print, and perhaps the perfect Christmas gift! It’s been a while (too long) since the last Week in Type, so without further ado: Let’s begin with a smile and this great tee from Able Parris: A lovely short of Robert Warner dancing…

  • Steve Jobs

    johno
    6 Oct 2011 | 4:34 am
    1955–2011 Sponsored by H&FJ. Steve Jobs

  • The making of FF Tundra

    johno
    5 Oct 2011 | 2:32 am
    by Ludwig Übele A line of text is like a silhouette on the horizon. Closer inspection reveals the detail, the trees, bushes, rocks; details that, though only vaguely perceivable from afar, create both rhythm and variation. The beauty of this landscape is born of both regularity and variety. I chose Tundra as the name for my new serif typeface not during the design process, but from the outset. I had in mind this idea of a wide and flat landscape. This was the initial idea: Tundra should lead the eye effortlessly along the line, thus emphasizing the horizontal. This would have been rather…
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