Typography

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    MSN: Typography

  • T&G wins 6 awards - Worcester Telegram & Gazette

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:26 am
    The Telegram & Gazette received six excellence awards from the New England Newspaper & Press Association, including top honors for overall design. The T&G was among the most-decorated metro dailies during NENPA’s 2009 Better Newspaper Content ...

  • Star Wars-Inspired Vintage Travel Posters - Flavorwire

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Hey MT, if you don’t like reading people’s opinions then you should be the one turning off your computer and going outside. Hey BF, do you even know what tracking and kerning are? If you had any design or typography skills you wouldn’t call ...

  • Milford Daily News wins honors - Milford Daily News

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:44 pm
    The staff at the Milford Daily News won honors in two categories of newspaper competition, picking up awards Saturday night at the annual New England Newspaper & Press Association dinner. Daily News staff writer Danielle Ameden earned second place in ...

  • Painted Words, Tainted Logos: John Langdon - Dexigner

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:04 pm
    In the early 1970s, he pioneered the art of ambigrams, recently called "the hottest trend in typography" by Wired Magazine. Painted Words, Tainted Logos presents several of John's paintings - three from his logo manipulation series from 1999 and 2000 ...

  • MetroWest, Milford Daily rack up awards - MetroWest Daily News

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:41 pm
    MetroWest and Milford Daily News writers and designers won honors in five categories of newspaper competition, picking up awards Saturday night at the annual New England Newspaper & Press Association dinner. David Riley, editor of the Ashland Tab and ...
 
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    I Love Typography

  • Art and Text

    johno
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:54 am
    Reviewed by James PuckettArtist Joseph Kosuth’s 1965 work One and Three Chairs presented a static composition that represents an idea three ways. It was heady stuff, addressing what conceptual artists saw as a crisis of reconciling the realization of concepts with the concepts. One of the three material representations in One and Three Chairs was an enlarged photostat of the dictionary definition of the word chair, making text both a literal and metaphorical focus in a work of art. It was not the first time text had been used in art, but it was a key moment in the conceptual art movement of…

  • My favourite fonts of 2009

    johno
    20 Jan 2010 | 10:53 am
    But will it fly?Perhaps the most difficult part in compiling this list is not what to include, but what to leave out. There are, then, many other typefaces that should be in this list, but aren’t. Perhaps some of your favourites from 2009 coincide with mine; perhaps they don’t — I’d love to hear about them in the comments below. Without further ado:Trilbyby David Jonathan RossWho: David Jonathan Ross; Where: Boston; Foundry: Font Bureau; Other types: Manicotti; Climax.Out of the clumsiness and inelegance of the Egyptians and Fat Faces, came, in 1845, the Clarendon. It toned down some…

  • Twenty-ten type

    johno
    4 Jan 2010 | 9:44 am
    The Week in TypeHoping that everyone is feeling refreshed, invigorated and inspired after Christmas and New Year. That we are now in 2010 is arbitrary, but it is at the same time a marker, the end of something, and the beginning of something else; a kind of armistice, an opportunity to dump all the bad, and begin a anew with the good. Well, that’s quite enough verbiage from me. May I present to you the first week in type of the 10s.I sometimes forget that not every one of the world’s 6-point-whatever billion inhabitants is on Twitter, so I never announced the Font Game here on ILT. For…

  • The Making of Vesper

    johno
    14 Dec 2009 | 9:51 am
    By Rob KellerVesper was developed over the course of almost three years. For this article, I’ve divided the process into two stages: #1 during my studies at the University of Reading; and #2 After Reading. Hopefully through this highly-condensed-yet-still-rather-wordy account of this project you will learn some interesting bits regarding my first major type family, the design process, and the MATD program.Part 1 – During the University of Reading’s MATD ProgramVesper began as my practical project while attending the MA in Typeface Design (MATD) program at the University of Reading…

  • Our own alphabet

    johno
    13 Dec 2009 | 8:55 am
    One Hundred DaysI don’t usually do these single-item posts, but just had to share this. An alphabet created using items from the Mitchell Library’s broad and eclectic collections—with wonderful results. Some of the letters are accompanied by videos explaining the origins of their constituent parts.In celebration of their centenary.Thanks to @ashmorris Visit the Font Game web site. Our own alphabet
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    Hoefler & Frere-Jones

  • The 21st Century Object Poster

    5 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    In 1906, the Priester Match Company held an open contest for the design of a poster. Art Nouveau was in full flower, so surely the judges expected to receive decadent renderings of languid smokers, things perhaps in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec or Alphonse Mucha. What none of them expected was a shockingly bold drawing of two matchsticks, almost antagonistically free of nuance: this winning entry, by a twenty-three year old designer named Lucian Bernhard, would come to be recognized as the world’s first Sachplakat, or “object poster.” It was arguably one of the most important design…

  • VITESSE: A New Font Family from H&FJ

    11 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Typeface: Vitesse H&FJ is delighted to introduce Vitesse®, a new slab serif in twelve styles. Slab serifs are one of typography’s most vibrant categories, yet they remain dominated by two ancient forms: the nineteenth century Antique, and the twentieth century Geometric. Both are vital and living genres — we’ve explored each of them, in our Sentinel and Archer type families — but what of the twenty-first century slab? Vitesse revels in the tension between organic letterforms and mechanical grids, and offers designers a distinctive new voice that’s suave, confident, and stylish.

  • Because We’re, You Know, Cyborgs

    7 Jan 2010 | 4:08 am
    Odd choice of fonts. Only one way to improve on it. —JH

  • Uptown App, for iPhones

    21 Dec 2009 | 4:00 am
    Typefaces: Gotham, Mercury Text, Giant Manhattan’s urban grid is a vaunted model of simplicity, a rectilinear plan of numbered streets intersecting numbered avenues. Never mind that West 4th Street crosses West 10th, that those walking from Fifth Avenue to Third Avenue will seldom encounter Fourth Avenue, and that “North” in the New York sense differs from conventional "North" to the tune of 29°. It’s this kind of accuracy, transparency and accountability that makes New York the perfect home for Wall Street. A fixture of the corner of Broadway and Houston, where H&FJ makes its home,…

  • Typographic Gifts for Designers, Part 17

    17 Dec 2009 | 3:00 am
    I wonder what sort of psychological profile one could draw from my favorite childhood possessions. I neither played nor followed football, but clung to my NFL lunchbox that showed all the team helmets with their different insignia. I had no special interest in English History, but was fascinated by the chart in our living room that traced the succession of British monarchs from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II. A kindergarten teacher gave me a chart of rocks and minerals found in the northeast; a kindly docent at the South Street Seaport Museum gave me a diagram showing how to…
 
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    Adobe: Tyblography

  • AFDKO Workshops

    Miguel Sousa
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:26 pm
    Next month I will be in Europe for two weeks, first in Reading, England, and then in The Hague, Netherlands. I will be giving a workshop that covers the various font development and testing tools we provide in the AFDKO*, to both the students of the MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, and the students of the Type & Media MA from The Royal Academy of Arts. 2008 workshop in progress in the Type & Media classroom (photo by Erik van Blokland) This is an event that the Adobe Type Development team organizes in partnership with the schools. This initiative is very rewarding…

  • Kazuraki is now available!

    Dr. Ken Lunde
    2 Jan 2010 | 6:05 am
    Our groundbreaking new OpenType Japanese font, Kazuraki (), is now available for sale on our Type Showroom, including those for Japan, France, and Germany. Click here to be taken to the ordering page, which also includes links to its Specimen Book and Glyph Complement PDFs. Kazuraki was designed by Adobe Systems' Senior Typeface Designer, Ryoko Nishizuka (西塚涼子), which began as a typeface called Teika that won the Silver Prize in the Kanji Category at Morisawa's 2002 International Typeface Competition. Although Kazuraki is branded as a kana font, and includes a full complement of…

  • One of our latest type posters...

    Dr. Ken Lunde
    12 Sep 2009 | 7:31 pm
    I'd like to use this opportunity to share some recent artwork from Type Development at Adobe Systems. This is a thumbnail of a Kazuraki poster that was designed for an internal Tech Fair that will take place during the coming week. Kazuraki is genuinely proportional Japanese font that is based on the writings of Fujiwara-no-Teika, and designed by Adobe's own Ryoko Nishizuka. This poster was also designed by the font's designer. (Click on it to see a larger version.)

  • IVS (Ideographic Variation Sequence) support in OSes

    Dr. Ken Lunde
    29 Aug 2009 | 5:55 am
    Finally. Yesterday, Friday, August 28th, 2009 is significant, at least for me, in that it represents the release date for Mac OS X Version 10.6 (aka, Snow Leopard). What is important about Snow Leopard is that it is the first OS that provides built-in support for IVSes (Ideographic Variation Sequences). Up until now, IVSes had been supported in specific Adobe products, such as Acrobat Version 9.0 and Adobe Reader Version 9.0 in the context of Forms, Flash Player Version 10, and InDesign CS4. For those who are unaware of IVSes, they represent standardized Unicode behavior that allows otherwise…

  • Times Reader take two

    Miguel Sousa
    13 May 2009 | 5:26 pm
    The Times Reader 2.0 released this week is a newsreader powered by AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) that was developed by Adobe in partnership with The New York Times Company. I contributed to the project; more about that later. It is a groundbreaking application that feels like a breath of fresh air amid all the unfortunate news affecting many newspapers across the country and worldwide. Being a Print & Graphic Arts graduate and a typophile, it's quite disheartening for me hearing stories of century-old publications ceasing their activity almost overnight. I am hopeful that the new Times…
 
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    Design Observer: Main Posts

  • Phoenix – Barcelona: Cities in Transformation

    Design Observer
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:48 am
    The School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University sponsors and exhibition and symposium Phoenix – Barcelona: Cities in Transformation.

  • Hungarian Rhapsody

    Design Observer
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:06 am
    This collection is the record of the immensely productive life of György Kepes.

  • Chicago Self-Park

    Design Observer
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:21 am
    In Chicago Self-Park, editor and photographer Alan Thomas explores the city's large multistory parking structures, which "give the viewer inside a particular way of framing the cityscape beyond."

  • DesigNYC

    Design Observer
    5 Feb 2010 | 10:28 am
    DesigNYC is the latest grass-roots organization to match socially minded designers with nonprofits.

  • Left Me Speechless

    Design Observer
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:37 am
    Our work should not merely address the political injustices wrought by discriminatory laws: it should register the sense of loss inflicted on those who suffer them.
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    Design is Kinky

  • Karim Hamid

    Andrew
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:40 pm
    Painter Karim Hamid.

  • Buro Reng

    Andrew
    6 Feb 2010 | 7:03 pm
    Stylish graphic design from the Netherlands… Buro Reng.

  • Mike O’Meally

    Murray
    3 Feb 2010 | 6:32 pm
    Photographer Mike O’Meally is throwing two exhibitions of his photos from behind the scenes of Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are. First one is in Sydney at China Heights on the 20th of Feb and second in Melbourne on the 25th at the Lamington Drive Gallery. All proceeds are going to Children’s Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation.

  • Antony Micallef

    Andrew
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:41 pm
    Checked out Antony Micallefs work recently? You should…

  • North Kingdom

    Ravi
    1 Feb 2010 | 3:25 pm
    North Kingdom rolls out their new site and projects, all beautifully crafted in the cold north.
 
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    Chez Porchez

  • José Mendoza y Almeida, le livre! [3]

    jfp
    2 Feb 2010 | 4:06 am
    Depuis plusieurs années, nous espérions tous de voir un jour sortir un livre à propos de ce talentueux créateur de caractères français qu’est José Mendoza y Almeida… The good news: Its bilingual!

  • Haïti: Font Aid IV [1]

    jfp
    24 Jan 2010 | 9:18 am
    Suite au drame à Haïti, S{o}TA organise à nouveau un Font Aid IV, destiné à récolter des fonds pour Médecins sans frontières (dans sa version US). C’est simple, il vous suffit de préparer un eps avec une esperluette de votre création. La fonte fabriquée sera vendu via les distributeurs habituels, les profits reversés à Médecins sans frontières (dans sa version US). Participez! Font Aid IV. Date limite: 29 janvier 2010.

  • Avant programme [1]

    jfp
    20 Jan 2010 | 1:15 pm
    Le programme dans la grandes lignes du Workshop de l’ECV Paris qui aura lieu les lundi 19 – mardi 20 octobre puis jeudi 26 – vendredi 27 novembre 2009.

  • Face-to-Face 2009: vidéo de Fritz Grögel

    jfp
    17 Jan 2010 | 5:51 am
    Lors de la conférence Face to Face 2009, Fritz Grögel était chargé de faire une conférence d’introduction à propos des différences typographiques visuelles entre la France et l’Allemagne.

  • Today display bug: Apple MacOs

    jfp
    12 Jan 2010 | 3:05 pm
    A recent surprise on my screen. With Mac Os 10.6.2. Nice colors but really no way to use it.
 
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    for the love of type

  • Typespotting in New Zealand

    mrs eaves
    24 Jan 2010 | 3:26 am
    There is a myriad of instances of Archer in Christchurch...you can't turn a corner without spotting those charming little ball terminals on the the city's summer posters and retail windows. Of equal charm are the remnants of old hand-drawn signage lingering in alleys and on brick walls high above new shopfronts.

  • Fruits of my Labor

    mrs eaves
    4 Jan 2010 | 8:24 pm
    Australia's favourite Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, turned 80 this year and here are the invitations I created for his party. Black detailed type, a gold foil 80, and hand written names to match the main text on the invites, envelopes and name cards. Bound together with a fine gold thread and envelopes finished with a red wax seal.

  • Withered & Spongy Helvetica

    mrs eaves
    4 Jan 2010 | 7:09 pm
    This was a cute find in a Bondi second-hand store. What was once a labelling alphabet set is now a group of withering characters which nearly dissolve when touched. Poor Helvetica! Needless to say, the unassuming sales assistant endured my stories of the typeface and let me save these little guys for $3.

  • Things

    mrs eaves
    19 Dec 2009 | 1:16 am
    Brick wall in Surry HillsMy wallpaper design from book cut-outsMy apartment floor

  • Body Type @ TYPO Berlin 2009

    mrs eaves
    8 Dec 2009 | 5:43 pm
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    House Industries Show and Tell

  • Win an Eames House tour with House

    Andy Cruz
    2 Feb 2010 | 7:21 am
    As part of a celebration of our release of the Eames Century Modern font collection, House Industries will be drawing three names to join us for this exclusive look into the inner sanctum of one of 20th century’s greatest design teams. Sitting high atop the Pacific Palisades and overlooking Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean, the Eames House was built in 1949 as number 8 in the series of Case Study Houses and is still recognized as a revolutionary use of space and materials. Interior tours of the Eames house and studio are normally only available to members of the Eames foundation. This…

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    Andy Cruz
    1 Feb 2010 | 8:10 pm

  • For the Ladies

    Andy Cruz
    29 Jan 2010 | 5:23 am
    Rose gold Agent Provocateur pendent featuring the corset AP logo we helped sort out for them.

  • Cupid the Screen Printer

    Andy Cruz
    24 Jan 2010 | 6:25 pm
    David Dodde pulling a few metallic silver Valentype blocks. Only a few days left before these screens are destroyed…

  • House in Savannah this Friday

    Andy Cruz
    20 Jan 2010 | 2:52 pm
    The Lecture is open to the public and FREE! Perfect excuse to leave work early on Friday… Andy Cruz of House Industries January 22, 2010 Savannah of College of Art and Design Alexander Hall 668 Indian Street Savannah Georgia Lecture begins at 3:00 PM
 
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    LetterCult

  • JESSICA HISCHE

    Beejay
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:44 am
    “The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” — Jessica Hische RIGHT NOW, FOR JESSICA Hische, that work—the work she should be doing for the rest of her life—is making letters. Right now, she sits at a computer in her Brooklyn apartment, hanging out with her two cats as she chats on the internet. The cats try their best to stop her from working—blocking access to her mouse, and laying down on her keyboard. But Olive (fat and loud) and Billy (a space cadet who sings in the shower) are prone to constant naps and…

  • TOP 10 of 2009

    Beejay
    3 Feb 2010 | 6:37 pm
    PICKING A TOP 10 WAS PURE AGONY! That was the consensus from our panel of type and lettering aficionados, who picked their ten favorite pieces from our Best of 2009. We used their input to help pick the LetterCult Top 10—after the jump, along with the Top 10s from our contributors. (The Top 10s are not ranked 1-10.) It was a fun exercise with subjective results. Thanks for taking a look. Thursday night: an interview with the Custom Letters Person of the Year. Edit: Friday afternoon. LetterCult’s TOP 10 The Top 10 is below. On the following pages, the Top 10 from Corey Holms, Mark…

  • CUSTOM LETTERS 2009

    Beejay
    1 Feb 2010 | 7:57 pm
    THE YEAR IN CUSTOM LETTERS, 2009. Appreciation for the people making Custom Letters. Inspiration for everyone else. A whole lot of great work. Wednesday, we’ll pick a Top 10. Thursday, we’ll have a feature/interview with the Person of the Year. Friday, we’ll reboot a project that began as a Flickr group, an A-Z thing called AlphaBattle, started last year by Drout 750. Thanks to everyone who submitted. Feel free to email (lettercult a+ gmail.com) if we’ve omitted something. The LetterMakers page will be updated with more than 100 new links on Wednesday. Enjoy! nom nom…

  • BEST OF 2009 – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

    Beejay
    2 Jan 2010 | 2:12 pm
    HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Now that the year is over, the fun begins as we sort through the best and the brightest in Custom Letters for 2009! We will release our Best of 2009 on Monday, Feb. 1, and we’ll also have a list of our Top 10 favorites, a Custom Letters Person of the Year, and a few other things. Here was our Best Of at the halfway point of 2009. The Custom Letters category includes calligraphy, sign painting, graffiti, stone carving, digital lettering, hand lettering, paper sculpture, and original type design. It could also involve making letters with sticks and berries, or…

  • JORDAN JELEV

    Beejay
    10 Aug 2009 | 8:05 pm
    EVERY SO OFTEN, THE mail carrier arrives with another bottle of wine, another gift from a client for a job well done. Jordan Jelev opens the box, unwraps the wine, and studies the label. The wine label is his canvas, a place where he transforms his design and lettering into hand-crafted works of art. Jelev, a designer from Bulgaria, has earned a reputation for his excellent wine labels—his nickname is The Labelmaker—but his work goes beyond labels. Lately, he has been experimenting with different approaches, different tools, and different styles. Making letters has become his work, his…
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    Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog

  • TypeFront – a font distribution platform for the web

    Ralf Herrmann
    Services around webfonts are currently springing up like mushrooms. Here is another one: TypeFront, a service to host webfonts for users and foundries. Website owners can upload their licensed fonts and the service ensures that the fonts cannot be accessed from other websites. Moreover the service also provides an API, so foundries can set up their own webfont service with TypeFront. Prices for TypeFront start at $5/month and users can test the service 30 days free of charge.

  • Fontspring – @Font-Face ready typefaces

    Ralf Herrmann
    While webfont services are getting a lot of attention these days, there is still the “old way” of licensing fonts with a one-time license fee. But usually such licenses don’t cover the use of fonts on websites via @font-face. Now Fontspring has opened its store—a font reseller which offers fonts for regular desktop use, but all fonts in the catalogue can also be used with the @font-face rule. If you purchase a license for a font on Fontspring.com you will get an OpenType font to be installed on your computer and web package, that contains TrueType and EOT fonts, which you can…

  • 10 carefully crafted display ampersands

    Ralf Herrmann
    “The year was 1887. Dierk Einhard Haäfe Master Typographer and Johan VanEngelbert Haph Suspected Wizard were inventing a typography machine to compete with Mergenthaler’s newly unveiled Linotype. With Haäfe’s typography experience and Haph’s scientific and technical know-how, they were sure to revolutionize the design industry. Misjudging the combined radioactive effects of (then unknown) plutonium and liberal use of Dr. Kurl’s Moustache Wax ™, Johan inadvertently sparked a quantum flux ripping space-time wide open and transporting the designers to the 21st…

  • The best sites with webfonts?

    Ralf Herrmann
    Now that @font-face is supported across all major browsers and more and more fonts are available for @font-face linking, I would like to showcase the best websites using webfonts. Do you know such websites or do you have created one? Let me know and leave a comment to this article. Thank you!

  • Firefox 3.6 with WOFF support released

    Ralf Herrmann
    Firefox 3.6 was just released and it supports the new webfont format WOFF. If you want to give it a try, the FontFont Typeface Library offers the font FF Nuvo Medium for free in the WOFF format.
 
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    Type 101

  • the final frontier

    Cyrus Highsmith
    22 Jan 2010 | 11:30 am
    At the heart of calligraphy is the stroke that comes from the pen, the brush or whatever tool you choose to dip into the black ink and pull across the white page. Type design can of course be looked at through the lens of the calligraphic stroke. And it often is. But what interests me is what makes typography and calligraphy different. In movable type, each character has a certain amount of letter space, and a fixed amount of line space, that belongs to it. In foundry type this is becomes the body, it’s a physical thing. In my world, I think of it as the glyph space. Glyph space, the…

  • Yah-hey!

    Cyrus Highsmith
    11 Jan 2010 | 11:49 am
    I will be in America’s dairyland on the 14th to give a talk, sponsored by Design Madison. They suggested that I come in March when it’s warmer but I said no way I grew up in Wisconsin, I am coming in January. Doncha know.

  • 2010

    Cyrus Highsmith
    4 Jan 2010 | 3:46 pm
    Happy New Year!

  • happy new year

    Cyrus Highsmith
    18 Dec 2009 | 6:59 am
    ‘Ras as-Sana’ drawn in Kufic style lettering.

  • happy hanukkah

    Cyrus Highsmith
    11 Dec 2009 | 5:02 am
    Hebrew lettering, inspired by Ben Shahn.
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    type4screen

  • Grids, design & typography

    admin
    22 Jan 2010 | 3:21 am
    Well designed grids form the backbone of a site design and layout.  Here’s a couple of interesting links to two long time proponents of grids: Khoi Vihn has written about the process of creating a WordPress theme called Basic Maths. The Myths and Misconceptions About Grid Systems from AisleOne here. These days, I just don’t have much time [...]

  • HypeForType

    admin
    8 Nov 2009 | 1:06 pm
    NEUFORMA FONT #HFT002 IDENT from HypeForType on Vimeo. This is a slick motion type promo by Future Deluxe for the Neuforma font on the HypeForType foundry site. Not long on the scene, HFT is already hosting a bunch of interesting contemporary typefaces including its latest offering, Exclusive Faces Volume 2 which includes exclusive font designs from; [...]

  • Typotheque’s Webfonts

    admin
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pm
    I am so excited about Typotheque’s webfonts. Its the first time (apart from Typekti.com) that I feel like there is going to be some signficant changes to web typography. Not only will there be new typefaces in websites, but there may at last be some typographic texture on the web as we see different font [...]

  • Tiny Sub-Pixel Font

    admin
    12 Oct 2009 | 1:05 pm
    This is an amazingly small sub-pixel font – it has 3 pixel x-height and is still legible. Great for icons and fav icons etc. Created by a Slovenian student, you can read more about it at his Typophile blog.
 
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    upscale typography

  • Parachute 2009 - A year in review

    admin
    29 Jan 2010 | 5:38 am
    It may sound strange but around this time every year or even earlier we sit back contemplating the year before and making plans for the year after (the end of the year is not a good time for us to think business; we just want to go out and party). Well, the year 2009 was [...]

  • TypoShirt One - Call for entries

    admin
    29 Jan 2010 | 1:50 am
    Call for entries for the new book edited by Florian Gaertner, Lars Harmsen and Ulrich Weiß of Magma Brand Design, published by Index Book in Barcelona later this year. TypoShirt One is the first publication which focuses exclusively on the typography phenomenon of the t-shirt culture. You are invited to submit your projects showing quotes, sentences, [...]

  • Love Letters in Philadelphia

    admin
    20 Jan 2010 | 3:24 am
    Artist Stephen Powers is leading a forty-painter team on an ambitious project called “Love Letter”. The project includes 50 rooftops in West Philadelphia PA, between 63rd and 45th street on Market Street. Stephen Powers is a well known graffiti artist who goes by the tag name ESPO. As he says, people do not like graffiti, they [...]

  • Ogaki - A fresh experimental typeface.

    admin
    22 Dec 2009 | 12:41 am
    Ogaki was designed by a young Hungarian type addict called Áron Jancsó. He is 23 freelancing and learning typography at MOME, Budapest. He likes to work from scratch from designing every single letter of a poster to taking pictures for textures. His work is mostly experimental, blending modernism, graffiti, 3D, calligraphy, and obsolete techniques with [...]

  • The Neon Museum - Las Vegas

    admin
    11 Dec 2009 | 7:14 am
    A few months ago we visited the The Berlin Type Museum which preserves and exhibits a number of typographic signs rescued from old times. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Neon Museum offers a glimpse at the most treasured and famous signs of Las Vegas that was. Located on Las Vegas Boulevard in Las [...]
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    Typophile - News

  • Typoversity

    patrick.s
    7 Feb 2010 | 1:22 pm
    We would like to invite you to our new book project "Typoversity." "Typoversity" wants to get you an insight into interesting and varied selection of projects from the university (thesis or semester project). The focus of attention is on typography! Submission deadline: 15.03.2010 Attendance / Release is completely free! Please send your suggestions in form of visual material (screen-pdf) to mail (at) typoversity.de www.typoversity.de

  • A Postgraduate Research Colloquium & Workshop at Reading

    Miss Tiffany
    5 Feb 2010 | 11:33 am
    Find out more about doctoral study at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication Announcing a postgraduate research colloquium & workshop, Tuesday 23 March 2010, 10am-4pm Open to potential students, current academics and interested parties. A day of talks and other activities including: • presentations of staff research activities • workshop on writing a research proposal for a PhD • a day in the life of a postgraduate research student. Assistance with travel to Reading may be available for current UK-based students who are interested in applying The event is free of…

  • Delve Fonts Launches New Website

    delve
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:52 pm
    For Immediate Release: Alameda, CA- February 3rd, 2010 Delve Fonts announces its new website has been launched. http://www.delvefonts.com/ To celebrate, the Delve Fonts Typeface Library is 50% off during the month of February. Additionally, the site now features online ordering with instant downloads. Recent additions to the the collection include: Rieven Uncial by Steven Skaggs, recipient of a TDC² 2010 “Certificate of Excellence in Type Design” (available 4/10/10), Quara by Delve Withrington, and Cody by Cody Chancellor. Select Delve Fonts are also now available for use on…

  • P22 & IHOF Release New Fonts by Torleiv Sverdrup

    Miss Tiffany
    3 Feb 2010 | 12:05 pm
    For Immediate Release: Buffalo, NY- February 3rd, 2010 P22 Type Foundry and the International House of Fonts announce 3 new font families for February designed by Norwegian type designer Torleiv Sverdrup for IHOF. P22 Kirkwall is an unusual and elegant design. The upper case letters have a slightly curved stem that ends in a small serif and wedge crossbars. The lower case letters have a fluid and easy design with end-hooks and long leading serifs. Kirkwall Trim and Bold Trim styles contain an alternate set of lower case characters without the long leading serifs and end-hooks. P22 Kirkwall is…

  • Monotype Imaging Adds the New ITC Stone Sans II Family to its ITC Typeface Collection

    JLH
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:58 am
    ITC Stone Sans II Builds on Original ITC Stone Sans Design to Improve Versatility and Appearance Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE - News), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has released the 24-font ITC Stone® Sans II suite of typefaces. Named after its original creator, typeface designer Sumner Stone, the latest additions can be viewed, licensed and downloaded from the company’s e-commerce sites: Fonts.com, ITCFonts.com, Linotype.com and Faces.co.uk. “ITC Stone Sans has served for more than two decades as a powerful design used in everything from fine…
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    Type Specimen Pool

  • (Ma)beg NonStop

    7 Feb 2010 | 10:02 am
    von_brandis has added a photo to the pool: Passing colour at Associated Press.

  • Vintage typography

    7 Feb 2010 | 6:41 am
    Vintage Collective has added a photo to the pool: by Jon Contino from joncontino.com/index.php?/projects/cxxvi/

  • Typographic poster

    7 Feb 2010 | 6:35 am
    Vintage Collective has added a photo to the pool: by Pixel Junglist from www.behance.net/Gallery/B-Complex--Sweet-Dreams/403176

  • Initialen - J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig

    6 Feb 2010 | 11:44 am
    bogtrykkeren has added a photo to the pool: From: Schriften J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig, Gedrängte Probe - approx 1910.

  • Don't Worry, Be

    4 Feb 2010 | 11:03 am
    JRG Cisterna has added a photo to the pool: Lolllipop
 
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    Fonts.com: About Fonts

  • Volcano Type

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:24 pm
    Volcano Type is a independent font foundry based in Karlsruhe, Germany. Their font designs are between digital and analogue.

  • Scholtz Fonts

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:24 pm
    The foundry is based in Durban,

  • Aviation Partners

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:24 pm
    Aviation Partners (AVP) was founded as a presentation design company in

  • ITC Stone Sans II

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:24 pm
    A popular typeface family has just gotten several new members. ITC Stone® Sans II builds on the earlier ITC Stone Sans design to provide a highly attractive and even more versatile typeface family.

  • Discourse Type

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:24 pm
    Discourse Type is a new foundry setup in 2007 by Jonathan Bennett. The foundries aim is to create modern typefaces that take advantage of advanced OpenType features allowing designers to have more choice and control of their typefaces. Discourse Type hopes to create a library of fonts that advance typeface design. Discourse Type is based in South Wales and all their fonts are designed to meet the bi-lingual needs of Welsh designers.
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    Ministry of Type

  • The Hebrew Writers Guild

    Aegir Hallmundur
    30 Jan 2010 | 7:23 am
    Related to the previous post, I’ve also found this collection of stamp designs. There are a lot here from the Mid Century Modern aesthetic too, including this beautiful Israeli stamp celebrating the Hebrew Writers Guild. I love the irregularity of the numerals, the complex detail in the design, and the pleasing visual metaphor: In case you’re wondering, yes, I do like a lot of the Israeli stamp designs, but it’s not an exclusive thing; I like stamps from Poland, travel brochures, emergency banknotes and commercial packaging too.

  • Mid Century Modern Stickers, Labels and Stamps

    Aegir Hallmundur
    30 Jan 2010 | 6:20 am
    Browsing Grain Edit earlier I saw a sidebar link to the Mid Century Modern - Sticker, Label + Stamp Club on Flickr. The title describes it pretty well, but with 1804 items (as of writing) the scope of the collection is pretty breathtaking. I sometimes wonder at all the collections of mid-century stuff online, there’s a hell of a lot of it out there and I enjoy finding new collections like this, but will I tire of it at some point? Perhaps it’s old enough now so that most of the crap to have been edited out — long composted in landfills or left to crumble in attics and the backs…

  • Hatch Show Print

    Aegir Hallmundur
    24 Jan 2010 | 3:22 am
    Andy Polaine recently tweeted a link to this video on David Airey’s site about Hatch Show Print, a letterpress shop established in 1879 in Nashville, Tennessee, which is still operating. The manager, Jim Sherraden, has strong views on how to run the shop, with a motto of “preservation through production”, the idea being that all the equipment, all the blocks, everything, is still used regularly, even if it’s for one print. Sherradden regards the shop as a living museum; everything is letterpress, and done by hand, and interestingly: we don’t introduce new…

  • Under The Milky Way

    Aegir Hallmundur
    15 Jan 2010 | 2:12 pm
    These posters by Ross Berens are beautiful. I’d love to see them higher resolution, and on nice paper, printed with archival inks, and yes, pretty much on my wall. They’re of all nine of the planets and their moons we knew before 2006*, with various details of their atmospheres, orbits and other features displayed using a range of infographic styles. They remind me of the posters and books I had as a child, but of far higher quality — these look like something you’d get from NASA itself, or today, the Science Museum. Lovely things. Yes, poor Pluto. via Coudal

  • Buried Type

    Aegir Hallmundur
    15 Jan 2010 | 1:24 pm
    I was going through some old photos I found in a folder and came across this one. I took it in Brighton several years ago, there were some roadworks in the North Laine and I must have wondered at the tape and signage buried in it. I found it amusing when I saw it again and rather like the effect, so I’m putting it up here.
 
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    TypeCulture

  • Of What Consequence, Design?

    3 Feb 2010 | 1:56 pm
    An essay about the history and aesthetics of the Initial Teaching Alphabet, a most curious 20th-century “alphabet reform.”

  • Film Screening

    19 Jan 2010 | 12:46 pm
    TypeCulture and AIGA proudly present the Maine premiere of Freedom on the Fence, a documentary film by Andrea Marks about those magnificent Polish posters. Date: February 18. Details are at TypeCulture’s facebook page.

  • Renewed Support for 2010

    12 Jan 2010 | 6:43 pm
    In March, TypeCulture pledged support to the Africa Schoolhouse Foundation’s pilot project in Tanzania. On 7 January 2010, we presented a check to the ASF amounting to 5% of revenue in font licenses from 2009. We’ve renewed our pledge for 2010!

  • ExtraLights for Expo Sans!

    1 Dec 2009 | 7:17 am
    Expo Sans Pro ExtraLight and ExtraLight Italic are online and ready for action! Stylish and crisp, these new fonts are perfect additions to the Expo Sans family. The specimen PDF has been updated too.

  • Morris Fuller Benton

    1 Dec 2009 | 7:17 am
    Juliet Shen’s fascinating dissertation about America’s most prolific type designer.
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    Swiss Legacy

  • Bold Italic Exhibition

    Xavier Encinas
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:59 pm
    BOLD ITALIC 4 MARCH 2010 SINT-LUCAS VISUAL ARTS GHENT PRESENTS AN ENTIRE DAY RELATED TO GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS BY: David Bennewith Mirko Borsche John Morgan Walter Nikkels Samuel Nyholm & Ola Persson Arts Centre Vooruit 10:30 – 17:00 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23 9000 Gent (Belgium) admission: F r e e booking: sabine.demeester@kunst.sintlucas.wenk.be

  • Ian Anderson talks on film about The Designers Republic

    Xavier Encinas
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:52 am
    It’s a year since Ian Anderson closed the doors at The Designers Republic in Sheffield after a highly successful 23 years in business, during which time Anderson and his team worked on design projects right across the globe. The Drum’s editor Richard Draycott recently caught up with Ian at his office in Sheffield city centre to get his thoughts on the closure of his design shop along with his reflections on what The Designers Republic achieved during its lifetime. We also find out what design projects he has been working on during the last year and what his plans are for the year…

  • 48m² / Same but Different

    Xavier Encinas
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:35 am
    With the aim to exhibit at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2010, they were supposed to design furniture for a 48sqm apartment and question and twist preconceptions of home styling. Interpreting their collections and temperaments, we have created the concept “48m² / Same but Different”. The showcase will be a 48m² apartement, cut up and reorganized in a different way. The exhibition catalogue is almost two meters long, showing all furniture in one long photo. We’ve also made films and online communication. Read more and see promotion films at www.beckmans.se/48m2 Team: Kaspar…

  • PWR Paper Issue 1

    Xavier Encinas
    28 Jan 2010 | 11:10 am
    PWR #1 57 x 76 cm double sided poster. 1000 copies. 4 euros + shipping Editors: Hanna Terese Nilsson Rasmus Svensson Contributors: Christian Brandt Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt (KK+TF) Andreas Banderas Natalie Rognsøy Ben Vickers Max Ronnersjö Rachel de Joode Inka & Niclas Ida Lehtonen Amanda Svensson Matthew Feyld Kari Altmann Jason Adam Baker Alexander Palmestål Mark Pesce

  • Ravensbourne College of Design – Hike Design

    Xavier Encinas
    28 Jan 2010 | 3:57 am
    I just received an email from London based design studio Hike. They just released this new project on their website. A sponsorship brochure that showcases the Ravensbourne College of Design’s new building (still in development) located in Greenwich.
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    GEOTYPOGRAFIKA

  • John Moore / Blockee Font

    Erik Brandt
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:18 am
    New work from Caracas, Venezuela. Above: John Moore’s exciting new Blockee Font, available soon (click image for a larger view). I am very grateful to John for sharing this new work here, and special thanks to Marina Córdova Alvéstegui for help with the Spanish translation. See the Blockee-Man himself below and please visit John’s site for an amazing array of graphic and typographic possibilities from this renowned Venezuelan master.  Above: John Moore and Blockee. More from John here at MyFonts (make sure to check out RadioTime), You Work for Them, and the Behance Network.

  • NYTimes / Nobel Laureates for Iran

    Erik Brandt
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:18 am
    Open letter from Feb. 7, 2010. Above: Open letter calling for action on Iran (NYTimes). Sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, it asks the question, “How long can we stand idly by and watch the scandal in Iran unfold?” How long indeed. May the Green Wave rise again! Related posts:UPDATED: Iran / Allah O AkbarUPDATED: July 17, 2009MRS / VIVA Iran

  • Every Drop Counts

    Erik Brandt
    6 Feb 2010 | 7:29 am
    Chicago artists reach out to Haiti. Above: Every Drop Counts, a recent artist action in Chicago to raise funds for Haiti and World Water Relief. Our friend Anthony Esquivel has just produced a documentary on the effort and kindly shares that link here. (See more on the Cool Kids from an older post.) Please view the Vimeo, Haiti Benefit/Every Drop counts. Related posts:Anthony Esquivel / Chicago TalentThe drop shadow lives.Abbas Kiarostami

  • John Malinoski / VCU

    Erik Brandt
    29 Jan 2010 | 8:25 am
    New poster. Above: John Malinoski, 2010. Related posts:John Malinoski / Electroacoustic PosterJohn Malinoski / Waldorf SchoolJohn Malinoski / VCUarts

  • Font Aid IV / Ampersands for Haiti

    Erik Brandt
    27 Jan 2010 | 9:18 pm
    One from the home front. Above: My two-cents for Font Aid IV, sponsored by the Society for Typographic Aficionados (SOTA). From their website: “Type designers, graphic designers and other artists from around the world are invited to contribute artwork to be included in a typeface created exclusively for the Font Aid IV effort. The theme of Font Aid IV is “Coming Together” which we will represented though a font consisting entirely of ampersands. Coming Together will be made available for sale through several type distributors, with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders.
 
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