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  • St. Cloud exhibits - St. Cloud Times

    MSN: Typography
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:01 am
    On Monday, an ICE Party poster was brought into a graphic design class and thoroughly mocked for the poor kerning on poor Clint Hugie’s name. On every single piece of print or environmental advertising they put out, from a distance, Clint reads as ...

  • ICE posters obscene thanks to bad design - Utah Chronicle

    MSN: Typography
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:44 am
    NASHVILLE (AP) — Dollar General Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit against rival discount chain Fred’s Inc., claiming the smaller company is using its trademark yellow and black colors. The suit accuses Fred’s of “unlawfully and deceptively ...

  • Visual Response

    Design is Kinky
    Andrew
    9 Mar 2010 | 1:21 pm

  • “Who Shot the Serif?”

    Type 101
    Font Bureau
    26 Feb 2010 | 9:18 am

  • My favourite fonts of 2009

    I Love Typography
    johno
    20 Jan 2010 | 10:53 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…
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    MSN: Typography

  • Celebrate the Arrival of Spring with a Cherry Blossom ... - PRLog (free press release)

    11 Mar 2010 | 1:08 pm
    Modernest's debut collection comes in five original designs: Argyle, Cherry Blossom, Egg (their signature bag), Modern Love Birds and Typography. Modernest bags are cut and sewn by hand in America. They use unbleached natural cotton that is grown in ...

  • Highlights on diversity - Gulf News

    11 Mar 2010 | 12:04 pm
    One of the artworks to be displayed at Art Dubai 2010 Image Credit: Supplied More than 70 art galleries from 30 countries; a special section of museum-quality contemporary artworks; a strong focus on emerging Middle Eastern talent and a diverse ...

  • Dollar General sues rival chain over colors - Paris Post-Intelligencer

    11 Mar 2010 | 10:31 am
    NASHVILLE (AP) — Dollar General Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit against rival discount chain Fred’s Inc., claiming the smaller company is using its trademark yellow and black colors. The suit accuses Fred’s of “unlawfully and deceptively ...

  • ICE posters obscene thanks to bad design - Utah Chronicle

    11 Mar 2010 | 5:44 am
    On Monday, an ICE Party poster was brought into a graphic design class and thoroughly mocked for the poor kerning on poor Clint Hugie’s name. On every single piece of print or environmental advertising they put out, from a distance, Clint reads as ...

  • St. Cloud exhibits - St. Cloud Times

    11 Mar 2010 | 5:01 am
    Beaded articles and stone arrowheads and tools are part of the Indian display ... eBooks presented alongside traditional book arts including bookbinding, broadsides, papermaking, calligraphy, illumination, typography and innovative artists’ books.
 
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    Yahoo! News: Typography

  • Errata (The Rice Thresher)

    11 Mar 2010 | 7:55 pm
    In the article "Non-major Humanities courses cut" in the Feb. 26 issue, the Thresher reported that all Humanities courses not directly related to a major would be cut next year. Instead, just two pre-professional journalism courses, HUMA 250: Writing for Print Media and HUMA 251: Typography and Design, will be cut.

  • Last call at Václava Špály (The Prague Post)

    11 Mar 2010 | 1:36 am
    A new work by Petr Písařík, Mondrian's Village, I, II. For what will likely be the last show under its current management, Václav Špála Gallery is stepping away from the conceptual and political tendencies of the Czech art scene to present a group show that focuses on formal qualities over content.

  • Dollar General Sues Rival Fred’s Over Colors (The Memphis Daily News)

    10 Mar 2010 | 10:11 pm
    NASHVILLE (AP) – Dollar General Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit against rival discount chain Fred’s Inc., claiming the smaller company is using its ....

  • Wellywood sign could breach trademark (The New Zealand Herald)

    10 Mar 2010 | 8:19 pm
    Wellington could be breaching trademark laws if a Wellywood sign is erected at Miramar, Hollywood executives say.The sign, which has been given resource consent by Wellington City Council, has been designed to copy the iconic...

  • Wellywood sign could breach trademark (The New Zealand Herald)

    10 Mar 2010 | 10:53 am
    Wellington could be breaching trademark laws if a Wellywood sign is erected at Miramar, Hollywood executives say.
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    I Love Typography

  • The library of the Gutenberg Museum

    johno
    28 Feb 2010 | 11:26 am
    By Dan ReynoldsI. IntroductionLarge or small, letters seem to inhabit their own universe. Re-arrangeable in any combination, they can spell out all conceivable messages, be they poetic, bureaucratic, or anything in between. But sometimes a text is just about its letters themselves, not an object to be read, but one to be looked at. Type specimens have taken various forms over the centuries, from posters to postcards and from primers to pamphlets. In fact, this web ‘page’ that you are reading now is also a type specimen, at least of some sort. In our digital age, creating type specimens…

  • Designing Armitage

    johno
    17 Feb 2010 | 6:39 pm
    By James PuckettThis is the doorway to The Claremount, an apartment building in Manhattan. I think that it was built in the 1890s. Those letters over the door just reached out and grabbed me from across the street and I had a typeface coming on.The Claremount, 229–31 East 12 St, New York.I had been studying this style of letters on similar buildings in Washington, D.C., and something about them always felt a little dull. But in the Claremount letters I found life in the charming way the awkward proportions and loose spacing came together.Screenshot of the Claremount font in FontLab.So I set…

  • 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…
 
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    Hoefler & Frere-Jones

  • Typography Delivered Fresh

    16 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    A friend who teaches typography on the undergraduate level recently asked an unexpected favor: “can my students browse the e-mails H&FJ sends out?” Apparently he’s in the habit of circulating printouts with his students, when they raise questions that we’ve recently discussed with our readers — how to choose fonts for information-heavy projects like annual reports being an especially hot topic, though he also encourages his students to dig deeply in the character sets of their fonts, and to look for value when building their own font libraries. So posted herewith is last month’s…

  • The Tablet Magazine

    16 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Typefaces: Vitesse, Tungsten, and Gotham Rounded Wired gets it. Today they’re going public with the prototype they shared with us a few weeks ago, and if you’re like me, your reaction will be an instantaneous “neat!” followed immediately by “well, isn’t it obvious it was supposed to work this way?” When something creates and fulfills expectations at the same time, you know you’ve got it right. —JH

  • 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
 
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    Adobe: Tyblography

  • Kazuraki is among the winning TDC2 2010 typeface designs!

    Dr. Ken Lunde
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:28 am
    As I mentioned in the Typblography article on January 2nd, 2010, our groundbreaking new OpenType Japanese font, Kazuraki (かづらき), won an award in 2002 prior to it being in the form of a functional font. I am very pleased to announce that this typeface design by Adobe's own Ryoko Nishizuka (西塚涼子) recently won another award, specifically that it is among the winning TDC2 2010 typeface designs. We'd like to extend to Ryoko our sincere congratulations for this noteworthy and well-deserved achievement. 本当におめでとうございます！ It is quite an honor to have her on…

  • 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…
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    Design Observer: Main Posts

  • Designed Landscapes

    Design Observer
    11 Mar 2010 | 9:06 am
    A portfolio of photographs of designed structures and landscapes — from La Jolla to Marfa, from Hadrian's Villa to Storm King — by landscape architecture professor Ken McCown.

  • Thomas Schumacher Symposium

    Design Observer
    10 Mar 2010 | 5:10 pm
    The University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation is hosting the Schumacher Symposium: A Celebration of Life and Career. This two-day event is to memorialize Tom Schumacher's ideas, influence and unique and profound insights.

  • Kopernik

    Design Observer
    10 Mar 2010 | 1:22 pm
    Report on Kopernik, a new website for funding technology to assist populations in the developing world.

  • Becoming a Designer in the Age of Aquarius

    Design Observer
    10 Mar 2010 | 8:40 am
    On rereading S. Neil Fujita’s 1968 job manual, Aim for a Job in Graphic Design/Art.

  • The Butterfly People

    Design Observer
    9 Mar 2010 | 12:48 pm
 
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    Design is Kinky

  • Visual Response

    Andrew
    9 Mar 2010 | 1:21 pm
    Australian Infront, after many years in hiatus, have brought back their Visual Response submissions based project. Check it out and start creating.

  • James Jean

    Ravi
    8 Mar 2010 | 7:48 pm
    James Jean released his new site along with a handful of new work. Enjoy feasting on his amazing creations.

  • SP Book Sale

    Andrew
    6 Mar 2010 | 8:45 pm
    With a new Semi-Permanent book coming out in a couple weeks, we have decided to have a sale of the older books that we have in stock. All books are half price, A$20 + postage. Great deal for 220 page books! Grab them while they are still in stock.

  • Semi-Permanent FINAL ticket deadline

    Andrew
    4 Mar 2010 | 1:24 pm
    The FINAL (yes, we mean final!) deadline for the early priced tickets to the Sydney Semi-Permanent event is today (Friday 5 March). Grab your tickets now before the prices go up.

  • Mr Toledano

    Nick
    3 Mar 2010 | 5:21 pm
    Nice photography by Phillip Toledano. Be sure to check out the commissions section.
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    Chez Porchez

  • Le Chili tremble encore

    jfp
    11 Mar 2010 | 9:38 am
    Et des français sur place rapportent leur histoire. Visitez leur blog: France-cauquenes.org Ce jour nouvelle secousse vers 7-8 sur l‘échelle de Richter.

  • Les leçons de chefs [1]

    jfp
    4 Mar 2010 | 1:43 am
    Vous êtes passés par de très belles maisons, vos chefs vous ont tout appris, mais ici c’est pas la technique de vos chefs que nous attendons, mais votre créativité et personnalité. (retranscription approximative)

  • Ecv 2009: Workshop pour la création de caractères

    jfp
    21 Feb 2010 | 11:21 am
    Après 2 jours octobre 2009, suivi de 2 autres jours en janvier 2010, un petit groupe d‘étudiants (6 étudiants) a suivi un de mes ateliers de création de caractères typographiques. Retour et conclusions.

  • Stealing typefaces

    jfp
    21 Feb 2010 | 2:35 am
    “I can’t afford a porsche, but it doesn’t give me the right to steal one. Stealing typefaces is absolutely unnecessary considering the number of free ones out there, not to mention the ones that came on your OS.” Alphonse. Quoted from Brandnew comments.

  • José Mendoza y Almeida, le livre! [5]

    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!
 
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    CreativePro: Fonts

  • TypeTalk: Setting Tabs in Illustrator

    Setting tabs in Adobe Illustrator is a bit different than setting tabs in page-layout and word-processing programs. Here's how to master the process.read more

  • New Script & Ornament Fonts

    P22's new releases are two new typefaces by Terry Wudenbachs for IHOF, 
based on designs from the Nebiolo Type Foundry.read more

  • Hy-phen-a-tion

    Carefully dividing words to fill lines is a key to good type composition -- and reading comprehension, too. Applications need your help to do it well.read more

  • Wear Your Art on Your Sleeve

    Veer is selling stainless steel ampersands you can wear as cufflinks or as covers for any button.read more

  • Print Design Help on the iPhone

    The DesignRuler app for the iPhone and iPod touch claims to be an accurate reproduction of the standard graphic design ruler.read more
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    for the love of type

  • Multi-dimensional Type

    mrs eaves
    2 Mar 2010 | 7:01 pm
    This must be the place was published this month in Incubate's 3D issue. Equipped with glasses this issue has many of the illustrations and photographs converted to 3D. Considering it's already three-dimensional in the 2D plane when you pop on the glasses it is a multi-dimensional-typographic experience! Also, lend your ears to Naive Melody by Talking Heads – the inspiration for the piece (the lamp shade dance at the end of that clip is definitely one to keep in mind for your next party). The magazine is designed by Christine Messinesi and you can down an online version here.

  • Oh Mr Eaves!

    mrs eaves
    22 Feb 2010 | 8:12 pm
    Despite his absence on Valentine's Day I knew I would meet Mr Eaves sometime soon. Since Emigre's Zuzana Licko designed the sans-serif companions to Mrs Eaves late last year (Mr Eaves Sans/Modern), it was only a matter of time before I would meet the families. These guys were voted among I Love Typography's Favourite Fonts of 2009 and I would have to agree with John Boardley that the italic version is most charming indeed. However, it was the XL companion – released by Emigre shortly after – which caught my fancy. The lowercase characters in Mr Eaves XL Sans Ultra Italic in fact are very…

  • Tuscan Type

    mrs eaves
    22 Feb 2010 | 5:21 pm
    Here is some background behind the Make Friends with the Alphabet poster for the type presentation last Monday. I found a 1970s kitchen wallpaper sample with some cute Tuscan lettering for part of the word 'omelette'. I used this as a reference point for creating the other letters required. Tuscan letterforms – as Jonathan Hoefler nicely describes – are "those that have bifurcated (fishtail) serifs, and more often than not, some sort of ornamentation midway along the stems". They're not perfect yet and will keep on working on the rest of the alphabet. In the mean time they worked their…

  • Make Friends with The Alphabet

    mrs eaves
    19 Feb 2010 | 4:09 am
    For the Love of Type is hosting a presentation on Monday... it will essentially convince you(if you're not already convinced) that letters make your life better. Come by if you're in Sydney there will be type cupcakes! Details here.

  • Font Aid

    mrs eaves
    16 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm
    The Society of Typographic Aficionados has just released Coming Together: a collection of ampersands designed by participants from all around the world including Alejandro Paul, Jean Francois Porchez and John Downer. The font is for sale for $20US from Veer, Ascender Fonts, Fontshop and MyFonts with all sales going to Doctors Without Borders to help with the relief efforts in Haiti. This is the fourth project part of Font Aid, an initiative started by Swedish designer Claes Källarsson, which facilitates the creation of collaborative fonts to raise funds for those affected by natural…
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    House Industries Show and Tell

  • Eames Blocks

    Bondé Prang
    11 Mar 2010 | 3:48 pm
    Eames Alphabet Blocks

  • Eames Serigraphs

    Bondé Prang
    11 Mar 2010 | 3:47 pm
    Eames Serigraphs!

  • Eames Century Modern

    Bondé Prang
    11 Mar 2010 | 3:46 pm
    Eames Century Modern

  • Eames Century Modern Released

    Ben Kiel
    11 Mar 2010 | 3:45 pm
    In a few short hours, the event at the Eames Office will start, releasing the Eames Century Modern fonts to the world. Come join us tonight from 7 to 11 pm to celebrate. The Eames Office, 850 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 7–11pm Free and Open to all

  • Unpacking

    Ben Kiel
    10 Mar 2010 | 3:49 pm
    Don’t forget tomorrow night is the opening of the Eames Century Modern show at the Eames Office. 7pm to 11pm. Free and open to all. Live music from The Mattson 2, screen printing on site with David Dodde and Fresh Pressed, and meet and greet with the Eames family, House Industries designers and Erik van Blokland.
 
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    LetterCult

  • ALPHABATTLE – A

    Beejay
    1 Mar 2010 | 5:55 pm
    AIS FOR AWESOME! Submissions were fantastic, and some stragglers will be coming in tomorrow and after. Information on B on the next page. Thanks everyone and great job! JOSHUA HARLESS KYLO MOONGUTS XANDRA ZAMORA NICK SIMSON CHRIS PIASCIK EMILY MAHER FRED MITTELSTEDT ALEX SAVAKIS BEN SALAS DAVE BAILEY RAND RENFROW GUILLAUME MUR PETER KEHR JOHN KANE SMITH DAVID WHITLEY SALLI SUE SWINDELL ALISTAIR BRIGGS JILLANTHROPY JEN MONTGOMERY CYRILL KUZNETSOV JASON WONG ANGELA FICORELLI RYAN FREASE PATRYCJA ZYWERT JESSICA FREASE JUSTIN BLANKS DAWID KONIUSZEWSKI BERTO LEGENDARY DARREN COLE DAN GNEIDING ERIK…

  • ALPHABATTLE 2.0

    Beejay
    15 Feb 2010 | 9:26 am
    ALPHABATTLE IS A BIT OF a misnomer. There are no actual battles, no talkin’ trash, no smokin’ fools, no winners, no losers—just an opportunity to express yourself with Custom Letters among some like-minded peers. Make letters. Have fun. Drout 750, aka Paul O’Sullivan, started AlphaBattle last year as a Flickr group, based on a concept that goes back nearly 10 years to various grafitti forums. This is the reboot, version 2.0. We’ll start with A, do a new letter every two weeks, and finish with Z, about this time in 2011. Fifty-two weeks, twenty-six letters. So,…

  • 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. Enjoy! nom nom nom. MATT LYON / C86 ERIC KU ALEX TROCHUT LUCA BARCELONA MICHIEL VAN DER BORN GIAMPIERO QUAINI KENNETH FRASER ANDY SMITH MICHAEL CLARK ALISON CARMICHAEL DAVE BAILEY MAXWELL LORD MICAH LIDBERG NATE WILLIAMS PEDRO SCANDIANI PAUL HOLLINSWORTH LENNARD SCHUURMANS RICHARD PEREZ GEONETIX SANTAAAH SEB LESTER ALEX TROCHUT LINZIE…
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    Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook

  • Big, Swashy P

    Mark Simonson
    4 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    Large (about 6 inches tall) wood type “P”, seen at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on March 31, 2009.

  • Mis-Taken

    Mark Simonson
    3 Mar 2010 | 7:08 am
    Reader Ivan Philipov sent me this still from Steven Spielberg’s 2002 science fiction television series “Taken”. The newspaper is supposed to be from 1947, but the headline font, Adobe Myriad, didn’t exist until 1992.

  • Beneath the Volley of the Fonts

    Mark Simonson
    28 Feb 2010 | 1:58 pm
    Last Friday, I spent the afternoon frantically trading files with Peter Bruhn (of Fountain type foundry in Sweden) for an exhibition match of Layer Tennis. The basic idea is to pass a layered Photoshop file back and forth for ten “volleys”, about one every 15 minutes. The resulting “volley” image is displayed live for the world to see, with running commentary (in this case by the witty and capable Grant Hutchinson). What may not have been obvious to some was that the Photoshop compositions were not where Peter and I were spending most of our time (well, maybe in some…

  • Layer Tennis

    Mark Simonson
    25 Feb 2010 | 6:49 pm
    Just a note to say, this Friday afternoon, I’ll be pitting my type chops against (with?) fellow type designer Peter Bruhn for a “exhibition” game of Layer Tennis. I expect this to be a friendly match, more improvisational than competitive. But we’ll see.

  • The End of 2009

    Mark Simonson
    1 Jan 2010 | 9:25 am
    Appropriately enough for the end of the year, the Movie Title Stills Collection now has a set of “The End” titles from Warner Bros. movies, from 1925 (the earliest available on DVD) to 1967 (when the practice ended). As usual, these are nearly all hand lettered. There is some consistency to the designs, almost as if it were treated as logos. This may have been done on purpose, as a way of branding the pictures, but it seems more likely that is was simple expediency, reusing the same artwork to save time and money, with variations reflecting the shifting tastes over time of the…
 
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    MyFonts Special Offers

  • Introducing Bronzino

    10 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Bronzino’s roots lie in the Arts and Crafts movement, and in the traditions of letterpress printed fine quality books. It’s ideal for legible headings which have just that hint of charm and difference outside of the normal and mundane. It’s formal enough to go anywhere yet it has a spirit of fun, it brings a world of bygone care and quality to the modern age. For a short time the Bronzino family is offered at a 30% discount.

  • 50% OFF!

    10 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm

  • Nebiolo Combo Special

    10 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    P22 Slogan and Nebiornaments are the latest additions to the International House of Fonts. Both fonts are based on designs of the Italian Nebiolo Type Foundry of the 1950s. P22 Slogan is based on "Slogan" by Aldo Novarese. The new digitization accurately reproduces the outlines of the original not found in previous digital versions of this design and includes Central European characters. P22 Nebiornaments contains over 100 ornaments that are designed to create complex patterns and continuous borders. The simple geometric shapes allow for endless combinations for a wide variety of uses. For a…

  • Rue 25%

    10 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm

  • 75% OFF NEW RELEASE SALE

    10 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    What better way to release a new font than to knock 75% off the price!?! Strategycide is based on the hand-rendered gothic styles of 80s and 90s comic book lettering.
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    P22 Blog

  • 2 New IHOF Releases for March by Terry Wudenbachs

    P22 Press Room
    3 Mar 2010 | 1:38 pm
    P22 announces new releases for March —2 new fonts by Terry Wudenbachs for IHOF,based on designs from the Nebiolo Type FoundryP22 Slogan is a non-connecting script font that captures the essence of the lettering used in 1950s European advertising. Bold strokes of this brush-drawn face make this design a great choice for both retro design and contemporary work. The font is based on the 1957 design "Slogan" by Aldo Novarese for the Italian Nebiolo Type Foundry. At the time of its original release, it was touted for "striking publicity work". This new digitization accurately reproduces the…

  • P22 Ancient History Font Special

    P22 Press Room
    17 Feb 2010 | 1:18 pm
    The Ancient History special focuses on the earliest forms of script, lettering and communication. From the cave drawings contained in the Petroglyphs Set to the extravagant and ornate text found in the Book of Kells, the 19 fonts contained in the Ancient History Font Pack are essential for individuals with an interest in ancient cultures. From now until March 15th, order the already discounted Ancient History Font Pack and receive an additional 25% discount. more. Sale price: $112.46 (regular $149.95, and if purchased separately, $379.05) Shipping charges apply when ordering the CD. In…

  • February Specials Ending Soon

    P22 Press Room
    11 Feb 2010 | 11:48 am
    The Dearest Special features P22 Dearest, a flowing script font that is inspired by handwritten characters found in a 19th century German book, chronicling a history of the Middle Ages. Both Script and Swash fonts are designed to be used interchangeably with one another to simulate elegant handwriting. Order the set of Dearest fonts from now through February 15th and receive $10 off. Sale price: $19.95 (regular $29.95). more.The Michael Clark Special spotlights the type designs of the award-winning, calligraphic lettering artist. The collection contains all of Michael's exclusive P22 font…

  • 3 New Font Families For February

    P22 Press Room
    3 Feb 2010 | 11:02 am
    P22 announces new releases for February— three new Pro font families 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 appealing for display work and appropriate for short texts and…

  • Jim Rimmer - One of the Great Ones.

    p22blog
    11 Jan 2010 | 6:04 am
    Jim Rimmer passed away early Jan 8 2010. Jim was a multi-talented type designer, graphic artist, bookbinder, printer, letterer, technician and a most generous teacher. He was never glory-seeking and turned down most speaking engagements offered to him, not out of vanity or indifference, but rather thinking that he was not worthy of being given a spotlight. Jim offered free typecasting instruction to anyone who asked and came to visit him in his studio in New Westminster BC. He took as much time as needed and was generous to a fault. Anyone who took him up on this open invitation can attest to…
 
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    Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog

  • Colosseo Letterpress Poster

    Ralf Herrmann
    What began as a 10-year wedding anniversary to Rome concluded a year later as an artistic endeavor to reimagine the Coliseum with type. In March 2009, Cameron and his wife, Suzanne, spent several days in Rome to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. This was also a chance to observe in detail the Coliseum, which Cameron had already selected as the next subject in his series of letterpress posters. Over the course of the next 12 months, the artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro…

  • TED Talks – a new idea for a road sign

    Ralf Herrmann
    Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares his idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of “Stop” and “Yield” — and asks drivers to be polite. (Source) Tweet This Share on Facebook

  • The World’s Biggest Signpost

    Ralf Herrmann
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  • Introducing Web FontFonts

    Ralf Herrmann
    While FontFonts were already available thru TypeKit, FontShop International has now announced, that more than 30 of the most popular FontFont families are now available for download as so-called Web FontFonts, including FF DIN, FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Kievit. This enables a more seamless and effective transition from print design to the web. An organization whose identity uses FF DIN, for example, can now deliver that experience on the web, using true HTML text. Web FontFonts come as a download package with an EOT and a WOFF file. The official announcements states that this will…

  • Wayfinding observations: Separation slows down perception

    Ralf Herrmann
    Wayfinding signs can have various shapes and layouts. For example, German road signs fall in one of those four categories: left: compact direction sign, right: compact table sign left: partly-separated table sign, right: separated table sign The amount of separation increased on these sign types. On the first sign, all targets are presented together, on the last sign, every  target has its own sign. But which one is most effective? On which sign can we find our target as fast as possible and without making mistakes? In his diploma thesis Dr. Raoul Bell researched this problem. He conducted a…
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    Type 101

  • “Who Shot the Serif?”

    Font Bureau
    26 Feb 2010 | 9:18 am
    [Excerpted from HOW magazine's February 2010 issue, used with permission from the author and publisher.] Who says the serif is dead? Type expert Allan Haley bucks the sans serif trend, with a look at seven versatile new serif fonts you can add to your type wardrobe. One of them is David Jonathan Ross’s Trilby. Reversed-Stressed Slab Serif David Jonathan Ross has had a long-standing affinity for the French Clarendon type style. One of his earlier designs, Manicotti, takes the style to its extreme. He said he reveled in exaggerating the “wagon-rut” tracks of horizontal weight…

  • unholy sonnets

    Cyrus Highsmith
    11 Feb 2010 | 8:14 am
    photo copyright 2010 Elias Roustom EM Letterpress recently printed a beautiful book of poetry by Barton Levi St Armand with illustrations by Walter Feldman. The poems are set in the inimitable Dante with Relay for the headers.

  • the night air

    Cyrus Highsmith
    11 Feb 2010 | 6:19 am
    “In this edition we’re getting down among the serifs, fiddling about with fonts and dabbling in Qwerty as well as trying to make sense of the Myers Briggs test and where it’s usefully employed. How has the idea of the book and the mechanical printing press fared since Gutenberg’s great idea?” Check out the sonic collage that is The Night Air podcast.

  • 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.
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    type4screen

  • Twitter Spectrum

    admin
    17 Feb 2010 | 6:05 am
    Here’s a really interesting visualisation from Jeff Clark. It uses Summize which provides excellent search capability for Twitter data and its built with Processing. I typed in typography and web just to see what it would look like. One topic is coloured blue, the other red, and the associated words are coloured and positioned based on [...]

  • Webfonts info at The Font Feed

    admin
    11 Feb 2010 | 4:15 am
    FontCast #5 — Webfonts Week: Erik Spiekermann from FontShop on Vimeo. The Font Feed is turning out to be a really good resource. Here’s a bunch of video interviews with key individuals driving the web font agenda, including: Erik Speikerman, Christian Swartz, David Berlow, Simon Daniels and David Mason. Also, some other good links to posts about [...]

  • 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 Vinh 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; [...]
 
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    The FontFeed

  • TDC2 2010 - Quick Overview Of The Winners

    Yves Peters
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:46 am
    Something must’ve gone pear shaped, because the page on the Type Directors Club website announcing the winners of the TDC2 Type Design Competition has been temporarily removed. Below is a quick overview to tide over the wait until it is back up. The following days I will discuss the winning entries.   Typeface Designer Foundry Country   Display  Deliscript Michael Doret Alphabet Soup USA  Fugu Neil Summerour Positype USA  Lavigne Ramiro Espinoza ReType The [...]

  • TDC2, The Oscars Of Type Design

    Yves Peters
    10 Mar 2010 | 5:32 pm
    Last weekend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its Oscars, recognising excellence of professionals in the film industry. One of the Awards that would interest me most from a professional point of view – Best Title Design – has been under consideration at some point, but the Board of Governors rejected the category at [...]

  • DIY Design - 9th Annual St Bride Library Conference

    Yves Peters
    10 Mar 2010 | 2:55 am
    The ninth annual St Bride Library conference will celebrate the work of all those who have chosen to do things differently.

  • Animated Short Made Entirely With Logos Wins Oscar

    Yves Peters
    8 Mar 2010 | 2:28 pm
    In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, Michelin Man cops pursue a criminal Ronald McDonald.

  • Shape My Language - An Exhibition By Bruno Maag In Vienna

    Yves Peters
    5 Mar 2010 | 8:09 am
    Bruno Maag has designed a remarkable exhibition of his type designs at Walking-Chair Design Gallery.
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    upscale typography

  • Typographic Kaleidoscopes.

    admin
    9 Mar 2010 | 1:09 am
    Katerina Orlikova is a young graphic designer from the Czech Republic, who enjoys a playful mind with sentiment and childish spontaneity. She always wanted to create something very personal which would let people reminisce about their peaceful childhood years, when nothing was important and the world appeared to be so colorful and gorgeous. [...]

  • Typodarium 2011 - Call or entries

    admin
    26 Feb 2010 | 1:33 am
    After 2 successful years 2009 & 2010, over 200 type designers and more than 600 typefaces were presented in Typodarium. One of the greatest type gadgets ever made, Typodarium is a tear-off calendar which was realized by Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit of Magma Brand Design. Each font is prominently displayed on the front calendar sheet while on [...]

  • Introducing Adamant Pro

    admin
    19 Feb 2010 | 3:56 am
    Adamant Pro is the latest release announced by Parachute® today. This typeface was designed by Vedran Eraković, a young designer from Serbia. Vedran was born in Split, Croatia but lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, University of Arts, the Department of Applied Graphics, where obtained a Master’s [...]

  • Calligraffiti - The Book

    admin
    16 Feb 2010 | 3:39 am
    The new book, by FHTF Publishing, is about a well known graffiti artist Niels Meulman, the contemporary Dutch calligrapher, typographer and designer who gained his initial recognition as the graffiti artist “SHOE”. After an apprenticeship with Dutch graphic design master Anthon Beeke, he went on to run his own design company, worked as senior art [...]

  • 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 [...]
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    Typophile - News

  • Ninth Annual St Bride Conference Announced

    Miss Tiffany
    9 Mar 2010 | 12:28 pm
    DIY Design ========== Ninth annual St Bride Library conference * Thursday 27 and Friday 28 May 2010 * £120 full-price (£90 Friends of St Bride Library). Concessions £50 (£35 Friends of St Bride Library) for full-time students and over-60s * Bonus: If you’re not a Friend we will include membership in the price of your ticket Design work of originality and distinction is often the result of individuals taking it upon themselves to do things differently: * by moving away from the styles and conventions of their time; * by not waiting to be asked and just doing it anyway; * by taking…

  • Voyeur font released

    Ale Paul
    8 Mar 2010 | 12:35 pm
    Sudtipos proud to announce the release of Voyeur Since you like to look, Angel Koziupa and Alejandro Paul bring you Voyeur, an entirely different direction from their usual collaborations. This typeface attracts two opposite design theories by mixing bold and blocky modernism with delicate ornamentals. The unlikely mix is not haphazard, however. It is calculated with an alchemist's (or voyeur's) attention to detail. This font includes many, many different ornamental treatments, each adjusted specifically for its letter form counterpart. Open your glyph palette to find plenty more variation…

  • P22 & IHOF Release New Fonts by Terry Wudenbachs

    Miss Tiffany
    4 Mar 2010 | 2:28 pm
    For Immediate Release: March 4th, 2010 P22 announces new releases for March- 2 new fonts by Terry Wudenbachs for IHOF, based on designs from the Nebiolo Type Foundry. P22 Slogan is a non-connecting script font that captures the essence of the lettering used in 1950s European advertising. Bold strokes of this brush-drawn face make this design a great choice for both retro design and contemporary work. The font is based on the 1957 design "Slogan" by Aldo Novarese for the Italian Nebiolo Type Foundry. At the time of its original release, it was touted for "striking publicity work". This new…

  • St Bride announces fifth annual Justin Howes memorial lecture

    Miss Tiffany
    18 Feb 2010 | 2:31 pm
    Zainer's imperfect impressions: fifteenth century printing methods ================================================================== The fifth annual Justin Howes memorial lecture * Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 7pm * In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation * Admission is free but by pre-booked ticket only How did the first printers achieve the (almost impossible) task of getting crisp impressions of inked type onto paper, evenly, clearly and repeatedly? Well, quite often they did not manage it - this lecture will illustrate how some of the various faults and imperfections found in early…

  • Ypsilon Editeur launches a collection dedicated to type designers

    Miss Tiffany
    16 Feb 2010 | 3:47 pm
    Ypsilon Éditeur announces the launch of the Bibliothèque typographique, a new collection dedicated to type designers. Their first title, to be published in French and English, is José Mendoza y Almeida written by Martin Majoor & Sébastien Morlighem, introduction by Jan Middendorp. French–English edition Translated from the English by Étienne Dobenesque and from the French by Jan Middendorp 176 pages, 8 color pages • 170 x 245 mm • 978-2-35654-008-9 http://ypsilonediteur.com/fiche.php?id=86 30 € instead of 34 € until March the 5th of 2010 ! Born in Sèvres (France) in 1926,…
 
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    Type Specimen Pool

  • Words, words, words...

    9 Mar 2010 | 12:53 pm
    fabergraph has added a photo to the pool:

  • Print test

    9 Mar 2010 | 12:44 pm
    fabergraph has added a photo to the pool:

  • Print test

    9 Mar 2010 | 12:44 pm
    fabergraph has added a photo to the pool:

  • Playing with Voyeur ornaments

    9 Mar 2010 | 7:04 am
    Ale Paul has added a photo to the pool: Voyeur comes with a lot of individual ornaments for your freely entertainmernt. About the release of Voyeur Since you like to look, Angel Koziupa and Alejandro Paul bring you Voyeur, an entirely different direction from their usual collaborations. This typeface attracts two opposite design theories by mixing bold and blocky modernism with delicate ornamentals. The unlikely mix is not haphazard, however. It is calculated with an alchemist's (or voyeur's) attention to detail. This font includes many, many different ornamental treatments, each adjusted…

  • 01_13

    8 Mar 2010 | 2:52 pm
    fabergraph has added a photo to the pool:
 
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    Fonts.com: About Fonts

  • Discourse Type

    8 Mar 2010 | 3:13 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.

  • Fontfabric Type Foundry

    8 Mar 2010 | 3:13 pm
    Fontfabric is an independent type foundry , which was launched at the close of 2008 by designer Svetoslav Simov who is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our goal is to create high-quality fonts which stand in a unique class of their own, and which will serve as a good base for any designer project whether it be web, print, t-shirt design, logo etc. We also have experience creating corporate and personal fonts.

  • Fenotype

    8 Mar 2010 | 3:13 pm
    Fenotype

  • GLC Foundry

    8 Mar 2010 | 3:13 pm
    “GLC Foundry” is a French little foundry starting from 2008.Its purpose is to set up historic fonts inspired from dated, real and definite documents, or inspired by incomplete ones or by accurate style. Fonts are complemented to allow a contemporary use, with accented characters and those mainly inexistent in early fonts. We make an effort to add abbreviations, ligatures, contracted letters and so on, peculiar to each concerned period. Punctuation signs are always reproduced in their original faces. We have a strong attachment to always keep the existent poetic imperfections of the…

  • TypeArt

    8 Mar 2010 | 3:13 pm
    The TypeArt Foundry, Inc. has been creating fonts for over 15 years.
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    Ministry of Type

  • Make The Type Bigger

    Aegir Hallmundur
    7 Mar 2010 | 9:54 am
    I’ve been thinking for a little while that the text on Ministry of Type is maybe a tad too small, making me guilty (perhaps) of that terrible designers’ conceit, small type syndrome. I’ve been designing sites for clients lately with much larger text, around the 13-15pt range, and coming back to my own site with its small text gives me a bit of a jolt. So here goes, bigger text, and a switch to FF Dagny Web Pro from FontFont, delivered via Typekit. I like FF Dagny a lot for its own characteristics, but I have to admit I’m fond of it too because it reminds me of Univers…

  • The Elastic Mind

    Aegir Hallmundur
    7 Mar 2010 | 7:33 am
    I was browsing through the AIGA Design Archives and was attracted right away to this book cover for Design and the Elastic Mind. Irma Boom designed the cover and the beautiful lettering was done by Daniël Maarleveld, you can see more of his lettering and some background info here (thanks to Sean Kelly for the info). I’ve been experimenting with creating letters from guilloches, so I wanted to look a bit closer at how the designer had done these. It’s pretty interesting, though I’m guessing it’s software filling paths with a basic guilloche than any kind of…

  • Schriftguss AG

    Aegir Hallmundur
    2 Mar 2010 | 8:35 am
    Kris Sowersby tweeted a link to this specimen page, and it’s quite lovely. I wonder how much whoever made it was intending it to be a play on words for English readers - gutrot being anything but good in English, and you’d certainly hope that you didn’t encounter anything red as a direct result of it. As it were. Possibly. Probably not though. It’s a lovely page, but all the others are worth having a look through - specimen books are always good for time travelling a few hours into the future. Shame there’s not more pages in the set, though I recalled (somehow)…

  • The Principality of Liechtenstein

    Aegir Hallmundur
    25 Feb 2010 | 3:31 am
    This post falls squarely into an imaginary new-to-me category, as it’s apparently been around since 2004 and I’ve never ever seen it before. I’m not sure how, I’m convinced I’ve looked at stuff related to Liechtenstein in the last 6 years, and this is exactly the kind of thing I like. So yes, the other day I was emailed a link to the portal of The Principality of Liechtenstein with a message to have a look at their ‘new’ brand (I think my correspondent may have seen it here on Creative Roots). I’m wondering whether the brand just hasn’t…

  • Rautendelein

    Aegir Hallmundur
    14 Feb 2010 | 6:08 am
    Martin Schröder recently posted about the small amount of the beautiful Rautendelein script he has, and asked if anyone could shed some more light on it. He knows it was most recently cast by TypoArt, and all I’ve been able to find (thanks to a native German-speaking friend) is this entry on Google Books, listing the face as being produced by Schelter & Giesecke (which became TypoArt when it was nationalised by the East German government in 1946). It’s a lovely face, and like Schröder I’m impressed at the casting, and like he says it must be incredibly easy to lose…
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    TypeCulture

  • New Links in the Research Directory

    2 Mar 2010 | 6:46 pm
    Valuable new resources for the typographic community: The Alexander S. Lawson Archive (under Museums & Collections), Terrence Chouinard’s Typocurious, and the story of My Life With Goudy from his daughter-in-law, Alice Goudy Lochhead.

  • Alphatier Pro is here!

    19 Feb 2010 | 1:41 pm
    The incomparable Alphatier typeface family has been upgraded to “pro” status. More glyphs, more language support, improved hinting and more OpenType features. There’s a new specimen PDF, too.

  • 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.”

  • 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.
 
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    Swiss Legacy

  • Carry Hope – Print Mag

    Xavier Encinas
    1 Mar 2010 | 12:05 pm
    For the next issue of Print we have invited 12 leading visual artists to choose a cause they would like to support and create a design for tote bags that will be sold on MyDesignShop.com. One hundred percent of the profits from these bags will go to the causes chosen by the artists. The artists included in this project are: Atélier Telescopique: Fondation de France büro destruct Christoph Niemann: Doctors Without Borders Deanne Cheuk: Smile Train Ed Fella: KPFK Radio Geoff McFetridge HORT: Amnesty International James Joyce: Save the Children UK Laurent Fetis: World Wildlife Fund Rick…

  • «Helvetica. A New Typeface?» – Exhibition

    Xavier Encinas
    27 Feb 2010 | 2:06 pm
    The exhibition, “Helvetica. A New Typeface?”, organised and produced by DHUB in collaboration with the Fundació Comunicació Gràfica (FGC), spotlights the typeface created by the Swiss typographer, Max Miedinger, in 1957. The exhibition includes a timeline of Helvetica’s consolidation over the last fifty years with a view to understanding its role in the history of design, as well as its antecedents and its subsequent influence. The itinerary, however, starts out with a selection of local works, highlighting the top-quality design of current and past creations whose common denominator…

  • Elevens – Spurs XI

    Xavier Encinas
    27 Feb 2010 | 1:58 pm
    Elevens are a new range of T-Shirts celebrating hypothetical all-time best XI’s of various football clubs. Conceived as a cult alternative to the replica strip, the shirts are printed on heavy cotton Gildan shirts in London, UK. Their design owes a debt of inspiration to Experimental Jetset’s T–Shirtism, and to the fan forums and pundits who regularly debate their respective clubs all-time, dream line-ups. Designs for other clubs and England to follow shortly. If you have any questions or would like your club to have an XI please feel free to ask either via here or by email—…

  • Effetti Personali – A Pierre Hourquet Exhibition

    Xavier Encinas
    26 Feb 2010 | 3:49 am
    Effetti Personali A collection of drawings by Pierre Hourquet March the 2nd 2010, Spiazzi, Venezia Pierre Hourquet Working as a freelance designer in Paris across commissioned works and personnal projects, Pierre Hourquet found the Office studio in 2007 as a multidisciplinary plateform. His practice of design includes different mediums: photography, graphic design, drawings and 3D objects. He runs the web publishing project, BooksonLine. He produces books, fanzines and objects in limited edition http://officeonline.free.fr http://pierrehourquet.free.fr Curated by Elena Xausa and Tankboys Book…

  • Unboxing Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon Book – M/M Paris

    Xavier Encinas
    24 Feb 2010 | 3:34 am
    Unboxing of the massive volume designed by M/M (Paris) and edited by Alison Castle, that contains all the elements from Stanley Kubrick’s archives compiled into 10 smaller books. Published by Taschen, and now officially sold-out.
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    GEOTYPOGRAFIKA

  • VCU Visit March 2010

    Erik Brandt
    10 Mar 2010 | 8:01 am
    Images from the VCUarts Objects and Methods Lecture Series. Above: At the lectern, Mary McLaughlin, with a wonderful introduction. (In the foreground, samurai.) Photo by Anne Graves. Above: El Conejo Vive, March 5-9, 2010. Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA. Poster by John Malinoski with and old photo from 1997 by John Dixon. (More on Geotypografika Flickr.) Above: Rob Carter’s experimental typography class at the end of our morning workshop together. Fantastic students, fantastic results, please see more on Geotypografika Flickr. Wonderful days that I…

  • Live Streaming Rabbit

    Erik Brandt
    7 Mar 2010 | 6:42 am
    Tomorrow’s VCU lecture live via the internets. Live Streaming from the Grace Street Theater In excellent news, VCU has decided to project it’s first live-stream for the lecture on my work tomorrow (March 8 at 4:30PM EST at the Grace Street Theater), and it will be available via this link: http://video.vcu.edu/ramgen/broadcast/elconejo.rm You’ll need Real Player to view it, a free download. This means that the lecture will be viewable on most cell phones, including the iPhone and iTouch models! Special thanks for the genius of Joe DiMiceli and his ace tech squad for making…

  • Exhibition Tonight / Poster Rescue

    Erik Brandt
    5 Mar 2010 | 4:53 am
    Recent rejected poster finds new life. Above: Cropped version of a 18×24 poster sketch by yours truly. Geotypografika readers might remember this reference to a past poster project gone fission. On the occasion of a upcoming visit to ol’ VCU, I thought it appropriate to revive it in this form. Hope you enjoy. Self-promotion Act 16 continues, intermission ahead. Friday, March 5, 2010 at 6PM (1509 West Main St., Richmond, VA). Hope to see you there. Related posts:Erik Brandt / RVA ExhibitionEl Conejo / VCU Objects + Methods LectureJohn Malinoski / Electroacoustic Poster

  • Papergirl No. 5

    Erik Brandt
    3 Mar 2010 | 6:47 am
    Random art distribution project in Berlin. Above: Papergirl No. 4 poster by Florian Lamm und Lisa von Billerbeck. In a hot tip from our friend Verena Gerlach, the very cool Papergirl project announces it’s May 19, 2010 deadline for new submissions. Check out the sweet video of Papergirl No. 4 in action. In more good news, see spreads below, Verena’s typefaces have been featured in the Berlin edition of Eye Magazine, weiter so, Verena! Related posts:MCBA Letterpress ReduxVerena Gerlach / New Book DesignVerena Gerlach / 20 Jahre Mauerfall

  • Yunker / 2010 Web Globalization Report

    Erik Brandt
    3 Mar 2010 | 6:08 am
    Byte Level Research releases it’s new findings. Above: John Yunker’s world map by country code. In exciting news, bytelevel research is back and has released it’s 2010 Web Globalization Report Card and the data on the world’s top websites is fascinating: Google and Facebook are numerically tied for for first place. Yunker explains that since Google supports more languages, they get top ranking. Yunker’s 2010 report is co-authored by Midge Raymond, bienvenido de nuevo! Above: In a similar vein, but using 2009 data, jess3 illustrates the world of the internet in a…
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    You Should Like Type Too

  • Hey man, it’s been a while!

    Rob
    19 Feb 2010 | 2:37 am
    A bit of an update / Excuses for not updating the site for a rather long time:   Unfortunately, things has been hectic lately and this site has suffered. There are many updates waiting and plans for the future here, just no time to implement them (this is a common problem for most of us it seems).   Since [...]

  • Museum of Things #2 [UPDATED]

    Rob
    21 Nov 2009 | 9:02 am
    16 more images from Berlin's ultra-cool Museum of Things!

  • Mota Italic: Now Open!

    Rob
    5 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am
      After many long months of coding, designing, and bureaucratic paper work, Mota Italic is finally online and open for business! We have worked hard to bring you some great font families and a special shopping experience. The website features numerous images and samples of the fonts and a totally unique shopping cart and checkout process. [...]

  • The Museum of Things ⇒ WOW

    Rob
    5 Sep 2009 | 11:49 pm
    Oh my god Becky, seriously the Museum of Things (Museum der Dinge) is like totally the most raddest place in Berlin. If you thought the DDR Museum had some cool old stuff, then you will be blown away by all the junk at this place. It is a cross between a natural history museum, the Smithsonian, your grandma’s house, a garage sale, and a dump. It has an extensive collection of “things” from the 1800s through today – roughly sorted chronologically and also a bit categorically. Its stockpile of ephemeral, everyday objects is amazing. Typoholics will find hours of pleasure simply staring…

  • Get all the type news at Type News

    Rob
    3 Sep 2009 | 7:42 am
    I know we both like type. If you are anything like me then you probably also have a slight addiction to following the latest updates and buzz in “the industry”. Us type geeks/nerds (pick your own adjective) tend to be rather social online – or at least interested in others’ posts. This leads to such a daily torrent of type news that it can become overwhelming to follow everything. Reading the important stories, then sorting through all the duplicate content to find those extra special nuggets is a chore. So a couple months ago Sonja and I started working on an aggregator to help…
 
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