Typography

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    MSN: Typography

  • The Cooper Union Signage by Abbott Miller - Dexigner

    21 Nov 2009 | 11:01 am
    For the signage typography Miller chose the font Foundry Gridnik, which resembles the lettering on the façade of the Foundation building. The original signage has a strong, angular look that suggests art, architecture and engineering.

  • Winona State University Student Wins Holiday Card Design Contest - PR-USA.net

    21 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) is proud to announce Winona State University student Kaitlin Corrigan (graphic design, 2010), is the winner of the 2009 NSCS Holiday Card Contest. NSCS will send the card featuring her design to NSCS ...

  • Channel 4 raises Bing word-extinction alarm - The Register

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:55 pm
    Roll over Wittgenstein, Channel 4 has a bold claim to make, thanks to New Media guru Benjamin Cohen. It's trumpeted in what must be the weirdest press release we've received in years - or at least since the Blooks one . We reproduce it in full ...

  • Paper Comes To Life In Papeterie’s New Studio - PRLog (free press release)

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    About Papeterie Based in Monterey Park, California, Papeterie is comprised of a team of talented artists and designers who all share a passion for paper, typography and innovative design. Striving to provide customers with an exceptional product ...

  • Art Director, Marketing Services - Mediabistro.com

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:39 am
    Job Requirements Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, is seeking an Art Director to work within its Marketing Services department. We are seeking a creative, innovative, risk taker who isnt afraid to think ...
 
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    I Love Typography

  • The Right Type of Education

    johno
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pm
    By Abi HuynhLast year Mathieu Christe and Berton Hasebe wrote a very thorough article detailing the general day to day of the Type and Media masters program. With this article we hope to outline an historical overview of the course and provide a brief look at the final project typefaces from the 08/09 class.Type Design at KABKThe Type and Media masters program has a long history at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. The roots of the program can be traced back to Gerrit Noordzij’s Letter Programme within the graphic design department at KABK during the 1970s.

  • Type: A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles

    johno
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:31 pm
    Reviewed by James PuckettI was excited when Taschen announced the first volume of Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, described as “This exuberant selection of typographic fonts and styles traces the modern evolution of the printed letter” . Such language, including the title, is disingenuous, because this book is not a history. Type does contain a short essay by coauthor/coeditor Cees W. de Jong about type history, but it is poorly written and riddled with inaccuracies. Similarly bad are the captions that introduce each specimen. Many are obvious or inane statements…

  • Sex, lies, & type

    johno
    24 Oct 2009 | 8:24 am
    The Week in TypeWelcome to a slightly later than usual week in type. Lots happening in the world of web fonts — links to the best content below. There’s also free stuff, so don’t click away.I’m thrilled by the launch of a new type foundry, Mota Italic. Congratulations to Rob and Co.As others have noted, the shopping cart is particularly novel and intuitive. Be sure to check out Vesper, their present flagship typeface; it’s bursting with lots of OpenType features, including numerous smart contextual alternates.This article’s header is set in Vesper Pro Italic & Heavy…

  • Type Camp

    johno
    5 Oct 2009 | 7:49 pm
    By Jessica R. YurasekLet’s face it, most of the general public does not really understand typography. So when I first tell people that I attended something called ‘Type Camp’ this summer, I tend to garner a lot of puzzled looks. But, smiling bemusedly, the typographic outsider with whom I am conversing, is likely to then ask a question not so far off from my own the first time I heard about Type Camp: what, exactly, do you do there?Well, explore typography, of course.I signed up for Type Camp not quite knowing what to expect, but I knew one thing for certain: that the past two…

  • Karbon type

    johno
    22 Sep 2009 | 11:14 am
    The Week in TypeI’m struggling to keep up with all that’s new in type. Exciting times. Lots of great new releases, and some very novel and creative uses of type and lettering. Let’s jump straight in.I am tempted to try something like this:Click here to view the embedded video. Futura vs Verdana IKEA Smackdown:Click here to view the embedded video.From RocketBoom. Via @DesignObserver.Something a little more serious: a short profile of the wonderful Gerard Unger, the designer of one of my all-time favourites, Swift:Click here to view the embedded video.And talking of Swift, Linotype has…
 
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    Hoefler & Frere-Jones

  • Things We Love

    13 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Typeface: Knockout This morning's post by the always-fertile Grain Edit reminds me that I’ve wanted to write something in appreciation of Mark Weaver. As with so many things I like, Weaver’s work is difficult to classify: design? illustration? art? The term “collage” might do as a formal description, but it’s a shabby word to describe Weaver’s mysterious inventions, which so successfully bypass both the senses and the intellect and go straight to the mid-brain. His tableaux that simultaneously evoke grange exhibits, Japanese consumer goods, early David Bowie, and recent Wes…

  • Down Mexico Way

    12 Nov 2009 | 3:10 am
    Photo: Nick Sherman. Typeface: Gotham Black An enchanting bit of Gotham seen en route to ATypI Mexico: timbered lettering, on the storefront for Guru, a gallery and design emporium in Cuauhtémoc owned by graphic designer Quique Ollervides. Thanks for sharing this, Nick! —JH

  • A Type Tablet

    11 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Typeface: Ziggurat When Abi Huynh sent me this image, I thought at first that it was a website graphic in the prevailing style: a digital rendering of high-gloss black acrylic, against a reflective white surface, in that "web 2.0" style that will not go away. But no! It’s an actual artifact, and a lovely one at that. Dominic Hofstede and Wendy Ellerton designed this limited edition stencil, a lovely laser-cut thingum at A5 size, produced as a promotional gift for the Australian studio Hofstede Design. Front and center here is our Ziggurat typeface, the lone representative of roman capitals…

  • Sure, I Guess That’s My Final Answer

    9 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Typeface: Whitney Semibold I have a friend, an editor at a renowned university press, who is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the English language. He is my go-to man for typo-lexico-philological questions, like whether there’s an English word that contains the adjacent letters h and x (there is); he’s the sort of gent to casually drop the words "usufructuary" and "megaboss" in the same sentence. It was therefore with great temerity that I once challenged him to a game of Scrabble, which to my surprise and relief he declined. ”I hope you understand,” he said, “I can’t.

  • Fonts in Time and Space

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Typeface: Gotham Bold By the way, that tiny screen grab below — which even fixed in time is so charmingly reminiscent of that CBS cafeteria designed by Lou Dorfsman — is but part of a captivating typographic video designed by Gretel. Greg Hahn was kind enough to share with me the original; I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. —JH
 
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    Design Observer: Main Posts

  • Today, 11.21.09

    Design Observer
    21 Nov 2009 | 6:53 am
    Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's TODAY.

  • Aspen Design Summit: Initial Report

    Design Observer
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:31 am
    Initial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.

  • Urban Crude

    Design Observer
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:33 am
    An online gallery extracted from Urban Crude, an exhibition created by the Center for Land Use Interpretation, documenting the metropolitan petroscape of Los Angeles.

  • Our Design Decade

    Design Observer
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:31 am
    Mimi Zeiger reviews Design USA, which opened last month at the Cooper-Hewitt, marking ten years of the National Design Awards program.

  • Paul Schuitema Collection

    Design Observer
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:40 am
    This remarkable collection of graphic design is from the Dutch designer Paul Schuitema.
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    Design is Kinky

  • Andrew Zuckerman

    Andrew
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:23 pm
    Beautiful photography of all types of birds by Andrew Zuckerman.

  • Job Post: Freelancer.com

    Andrew
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:05 pm
    In-house Graphic / User Interface Designer – Freelancer.com is the world’s top micro-outsourcing website, ranking 800th worldwide for traffic in Alexa. We are looking for a fantastic creative to join the team, translating business requirements into storyboards, detailed flows, concept mock-ups and refined user interface (UI) specifications. Other aspects of the role will be the ability to apply Human Computer Interaction principles, graphic design principles, UI best practices, and W3C accessibility and technology to develop project artifacts including navigation maps, wire…

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    Joel
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:11 pm
    Benjamin Hennessy wicked sydney designer….love his work…cool guy aswell…has a new site up check it!

  • Faunesque

    Andrew
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:20 pm
    Faunesque, the portfolio of Philippe Constantinesco.

  • Amy Sol

    Andrew
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:41 pm
    New work from the always awesome Amy Sol.
 
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    Chez Porchez

  • Pierre Lohner

    jfp
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:41 am
    Pierre Lohner, 1934—2008 a été mon professeur de dessin alors que j‘étais étudiant en graphisme à l’Emsat (1987-1990). Pierre Lohner est un professeur qui m’a fait découvrir le dessin de qualité, et je conserverais encore très longtemps en mémoire son sourire, ses coups de gueules, sa passion intense à propos de l’art.

  • OpenType features in Firefox?

    jfp
    23 Oct 2009 | 7:34 am
    Sound an interesting news for OpenType features lovers. You seems now to be able to set OpenType features into your css. This story started in 2008, but with Woff around, it begin to make sense. Let’s see…

  • Travailler dur pour trouver un bon job?

    jfp
    14 Oct 2009 | 2:45 pm
    Nous sommes d’accord.

  • Avant programme [1]

    jfp
    14 Oct 2009 | 4:33 am
    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.

  • Matériel analogique

    jfp
    14 Oct 2009 | 3:42 am
    Liste du matériel nécessaire pour le workshop de l’ECV 09. De petites variations peuvent exister, mais il semble que ce que je demande est souvent le matériel de base du parfait graphiste.
 
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    House Industries Show and Tell

  • New Gear at the House Industries Store

    Andy Cruz
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:47 am

  • So good

    Andy Cruz
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:40 am
    Key words/phrases: pleased, how much money you would like, take little notice. Something to be said about working direct with “the talent” to create good commercial art.

  • The Real Deal

    Andy Cruz
    14 Nov 2009 | 10:44 am
    Artifact from the Bill Bowman archives spotted in the hallway of his print shop last week.

  • santa seripgraph

    Bondé Prang
    10 Nov 2009 | 8:46 am
    santa serigraph

  • wood prints

    Bondé Prang
    9 Nov 2009 | 8:48 am
    wood prints
 
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    Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook

  • Mad Men Mention

    Mark Simonson
    15 Nov 2009 | 2:07 pm
    I was quoted and my site was mentioned in an article by Alice Rawsthorn in today’s New York Times. If you’ve come here looking for my Mad Men piece, it’s here: Mad Men Props Titanic was also mentioned: Titanic Blunders For more obsessive nitpicking about type in movies and television (more fun than it sounds), see Son of Typecasting.

  • Neckties

    Mark Simonson
    10 Nov 2009 | 8:51 pm
    Seen in an antique store in Osseo, Wisconsin, on August 14, 2009.

  • Ars Technica on WOFF

    Mark Simonson
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:37 am
    Chris Foresman, at Ars Technica, has written a nice, informative piece about WOFF (Web Open Font Format).

  • WOFF, a.k.a. Web Fonts

    Mark Simonson
    20 Oct 2009 | 9:56 am
    Mozilla announced today that it is going to include support for WOFF fonts, a font format designed for use on the Web, in Firefox version 3.6. I support this format and plan to allow my distributors to license WOFF fonts to customers. At this point, Firefox is the only browser to support this format, so it’s not quite ready for prime-time yet. But there is a lot of support for this in the font industry, and hopefully the other major browser makers, Apple and Microsoft, will join in soon.

  • Anonymous Pro 1.001 Released

    Mark Simonson
    9 Oct 2009 | 2:05 pm
    I’m pleased to announce the release of Anonymous Pro Version 1.001. This version contains mostly user-requested tweaks and fixes, including: The comma and the comma part of the semicolon have been moved down about a pixel (depending on the size) to improve clarity. The design of the “quotesinglbase” and “quotedblbase” match the look of the “straight” quotes (the earlier designs didn’t match anything). The periods and other “dot” punctuation elements are a bit bigger in some bitmap sizes/styles. Fixed the hinting problem that caused…
 
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    P22 Blog

  • Autumn Leaves Special

    P22 Press Room
    13 Nov 2009 | 8:42 am
    Purchase the Stanyan Autumn Set and receive LTC Vine Leaves for free!As the leaves fall here in the Northeastern US, P22 is celebrating the autumnal season by offering LTC Vine Leaves for free when the Stanyan Autumn Set is purchased. The Stanyan Autumn Set contains three fonts based on the casual hand lettering text found in the deluxe 1969 edition book ...and autumn came by Rod McKuen. The set also includes a set of 62 images of autumn leaves, pastoral images and various Rod McKuen-related icons. LTC Vine Leaves contains over 100 glyphs and is excellent for the creation of border treatments…

  • Rimmer Type Foundry Sale!

    P22 Press Room
    9 Nov 2009 | 10:31 am
    For the month of November, we are spotlighting the work of Jim Rimmer. Order any font contained in the Rimmer Type Foundry and receive a 25% discount. It is a rare typographic craftsman who is fully at ease cutting metal typefaces by hand and working the same designs with Bezier Curves on a Macintosh computer. Jim Rimmer is this craftsman and more. P22 is proud to be the exclusive outlet for Mr. Rimmer's digital fonts. Browse the 200 plus exquisite type designs, perfect for a variety of uses.

  • Spooooooooooky!

    p22blog
    6 Oct 2009 | 10:29 am
    Spooky is the newest addition to the Sherwood Collection from designer Ted Staunton. This chilling font is evocative of the type used in horror films and posters. It's creepy, it's kooky...it's spooky. Perfect for invitations, banners or other ghastly uses. For the month of October, purchase P22 Spooky for 20% off. Sale price: $15.96 (regular $19.95).

  • Allyson awarded honor

    p22blog
    24 Sep 2009 | 1:43 pm
    P22 Allyson is based on an old metal font by Barnhart Bros. & Spindler named "Hazel Script." It has been expanded and redrawn to meet the needs of today's designers by including a full international multi-lingual character set. Perfect for elegant invitations and certificates. The font has won an honor diploma for excellence in The International Type Design Competition, Modern Cyrillic 2009. The competition took place on Monday, September 14, 2009 in Moscow and was held by ParaType with support by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of Russia. For more information P22 is…

  • Huffer

    p22blog
    1 Sep 2009 | 1:17 pm
    Huffer is a chunky and irregular sans-serif font (with a few serifs) that simulates the look of letters crudely cut out of paper. The basic letters were originally inspired by an early 1970s instructional filmstrip dealing with the dangers of glue sniffing. Further inspiration came from other sources of 1960s display lettering. The lower case is almost as tall as the upper case allowing for a mix and match between cases to achieve a more lively display effect. Huffer Pro includes ligatures and Cyrillic and Central European character sets with a total of over 500 glyphs. Designed bu Terry…
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    Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog

  • Wayfinding observations: Landmarks and cardinal directions

    ralfherrmann
    When we come to a new city we build a cognitve map to represent this city in our minds. Unless you have photographic memory such cognitve maps work differently from topographic maps. They don’t consist of exact representations and distances, but are driven by landmarks and the paths that connect them. A landmark can be anything that clearly stands out from its environment, like a tower or a church. But one of the most important landmarks are rivers that divide a city. London is divided by the Thames, Paris by the Seine and Vienna by the Danube. Last week I visited Vienna for the first time…

  • Designing the ultimate wayfinding typeface

    ralfherrmann
    Over the last couple of years I have researched the design and use of typefaces used for signage, especially road signage. While road signs in general are scientifically researched for many decades in western countries, little is known about the parameters that lead to a maximum legibility of typefaces used in signage. And therefore the range of typefaces used on road signs is pretty wide. We see geometric typefaces… Road Sign Poland …slanted serif typefaces… Road Sign Luxembourg …and many old and modern sans-serif typefaces… Netherlands (ANWB-Uu by Gerard Unger) But which ones are…

  • Why webfont services are the future of fonts on the web

    ralfherrmann
    The debate about webfonts just reached its peak at a panel discussion on this year’s TypeCon conference. (You can listen to the 2 hours audio at Typographica and read summaries at i love typography and NiceWebType.) The discussion left a lot of people puzzled about how the future of fonts on the web might look like. Here is my outlook  … As a type and web designer, webfonts were always of great interest to me. As a type designer I was shocked, when Safari started to support linking TrueType and OpenType fonts (now usually called “raw fonts” in this context) with Safari 3.1 in march…

  • The Potential of Web Typography

    ralfherrmann
    Firefox 3.5 with support for webfonts is out. This demo page by Ian Lynam & Craig Mod shows how commercial webfonts can enrich a website. The demo page uses subsetted versions of fonts from the Dutch foundry Underware and “is intended to show what will be possible once foundries revise their EULAs allowing for high-quality professional level fonts to be referenced in CSS“.

  • Folder Type

    ralfherrmann
    Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X. Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.
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    The Fell Types

  • Spare the rod

    Igino Marini
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:45 am
    David Gray, a newspaper and magazine art director, also owns oddhero.com, a small (for now) company specialising in typographic art. He realized three prints using IM Fell Great Primer & Double Pica setting the text of ancient proverbs. Not intended to be applied today: «We’re not actually this mean to kids, we just think it’s good to remind them how things used to be.»

  • Modern Linguist

    Igino Marini
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:17 am
    Modern Linguist is a WordPress template realized by Joel Goodman and designed with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) participants in mind: it allows integration with the NaNoWriMo.org word count API, providing dynamic and automatic word count updates pulled directly from the user’s NaNoWriMo profile. Modern Linguist comes with 8 standard, Open Source or Creative Commons typeface options, as well as The Fell Types too that are used by permission. The authors are given the choice of using a font-face that best suits their novel’s mood or tone. The fonts include: Delicious and Fontin…

  • Firefox and new font control features for designers

    Igino Marini
    1 Nov 2009 | 11:07 am
    John Daggett of Mozilla Japan is currently working on development of the Firefox browser and wanted to let me know that he used some of the Fell Type fonts on an example page which mimics the rendering of historical texts. «This page uses downloadable fonts to try and render the quoted text as it would have been rendered historically.  Additionally, we’re working on ways of extending CSS so that it can make use of font features, in this case the alternate form of the ’s’ character and the various historical ligatures.  Attached is a rendering with an experimental version…

  • Il Covile

    Igino Marini
    1 Nov 2009 | 10:24 am
    The Fell Types have been used for the printed version of Il Covile, an italian newsletter supervised by Stefano Borselli about art, culture, philosophy, politics, …, life. You can download here n.531, n.532 and n.551.

  • “Jules Destrooper” Biscuterie

    Igino Marini
    28 Jun 2009 | 8:57 am
    I’ve been contacted by Marc Kino, Brandmanager / Graphic designer of Biscuiterie Jules Destrooper Zwaanhofweg 20 – 8900 Ieper Belgium. He let me know he used one of the Fell Flowers for the design for the Year End collection 2009. Since he was grateful for my work he wanted to send me some samples hoping I like their biscuits as well as he likes my work. I do! What can I say? It seems he knows me! Some of the biscuits I received
 
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    Type 101

  • think löçãl

    Cyrus Highsmith
    13 Nov 2009 | 12:04 pm
    Drawing a masthead is a nice change of pace. While a typeface contains hundreds of different glyphs, a masthead is usually just several letters long. You even know what order they go in. In contrast, the parts of a typeface can be assembled in almost any sequence and the letter drawer must plan for that. There are some folks who delight in obscure letter combinations, archaic diacritic marks, and other linguistic minutiae. And it is important to take care with such details. Sometimes, I also like to just draw though. I had a great time drawing this masthead for a magazine produced in my…

  • “Peace Has Broken Out”

    David Berlow
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:07 am
    That was the tweet at least — a tweet being a Twitter or Twitster writing a headline and delivering it globally at text size, accompanied by a big picture of themselves or something. But what am I saying — I’m doing it again: Writing a blog. Writing a blog on web fonts. Writing a blog on web fonts for an audience so mixed that I have a choice of confusing some of you all the time, all of you some of the time, and time itself (which I lost a couple times this past week) all the time. I tell people I went to “Mexico . . . ,” and they say “Oh…

  • New Faces in Washington

    Kent Lew
    28 Oct 2009 | 6:09 am
    Last week the venerable Washington Post unveiled its new design, eight months in the making. More a “tweak” than an extreme makeover, the redesign was accomplished by an in-house team in collaboration with Roger Black and his studio. Charles Apple presents a very thorough review of the newspaper’s structural and design changes on his Visual Editors blog, including ample links to other sources and a PDF of The Post’s own special section detailing the changes. The obvious change to The Post’s body copy font gets noted in several articles. But some of the more…

  • From Boston to Mexico City

    Dyana Weissman
    22 Oct 2009 | 12:56 pm
    Packing is almost done. My presentation is saved in about 40 different formats and 8 different places (one can never be too careful). Before I am technically awake on Sunday morning, I’ll be getting on a plane bound for Mexico City. I’m excited, and I can barely wait for ATypI: The Heart of the Letter to begin. This promises to be one compelling conference. Web fonts are on top of everyone’s mind. David Berlow will be speaking about his experience with developing them in relation to designing agate fonts. Attendees will get a rare glimpse into the workings of his innovative…

  • moving type!

    Cyrus Highsmith
    20 Oct 2009 | 10:58 am
    I sent Brent Barson an email to tell him how much I enjoyed the opening titles for the fifth Typophile Film Festival made by him and his students. It happens to feature Scout and Dispatch but for me that was just a bonus. The animation is really amazing. Barson replied that it turns out Scout and Dispatch were just asking to be cut out of wood, metal, and plexiglass. Who knew? Christian Schwartz’s handsome Farnham also shows up, among others. Scout also shows up in the inimitable Laurie Rosenwald’s animated chaos. Keep your eyes peeled for Loupot, me and Laurie’s collaborative…
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    type4screen

  • 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.

  • Web fonts debate yet again…

    admin
    12 Oct 2009 | 12:49 pm
    There will be another panel discussion about web fonts, this time at the 2009 ATypI conference, Mexico City on 26-30 October. Type design legend John Berry will chair the panel about font embedding: “It’s all about getting new fonts onto a web page, so the content doesn’t all end up in default Times or Arial. After [...]
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    TypeOff.

  • Happiness update

    Dan Reynolds
    29 Oct 2009 | 9:50 am
    A year ago, on October 17, 2009, I posted my personal recipe for happiness. On Saturday, I am finally moving to Berlin. So how is my post-MATD Reading master plan coming along? DB Mobility BahnCard 100 iPhone 3G 8GB Move to Berlin Get a dog Achieve personal bliss What a difference a year makes! I’m already on my second DB Mobility BahnCard 100. As you can see, I have yet to achieve personal bliss. But I’m working on it. I’ve penciled in my potential dog-getting date for sometime in February or March 2010.

  • Germany’s FH Wiesbaden gets new name

    Dan Reynolds
    27 Oct 2009 | 5:09 am
    Back in 2001–2002, while I was finishing up my BFA at RISD, I spent a semester abroad at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, a large-ish University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany. The German-language blog Design Tagebuch (design diary) reports that this university has gotten a new name: the institution is now going to be know as the Hochschule RheinMain. Total bullocks! While I think that the new school logo is an improvement (the old logo looked like the US state of Texas with a hat on it), I find the name “Hochschule RheinMain” rather pompous. In Germany’s…

  • Malabar claims German Design Prize Gold

    Dan Reynolds
    23 Oct 2009 | 4:32 am
    This year’s German Design Prize jury has selected my Malabar typeface as one of ten works from across the nation to received the coveted design prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in gold. In June, the German Federal Ministry of Economic and Technology nominated my Malabar typeface for the 2010 German Design Prize. The design prize of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country’s highest distinction in the field of design. No other design award sets such strict criteria on entries. A company can only enter the competition of its product has already been recognized in…

  • Mota Italic launches!

    Dan Reynolds
    14 Oct 2009 | 3:59 am
    Rob and Sonja Keller like to do things differently. For years, Rob Keller’s personal blog, youshouldliketypetoo, has followed the beat of its own drummer. The layout, color scheme, and navigation system do not look like those of a standard weblog, whether one thinks of the online typorati landscape or not. The Kellers’ first joint publication, TypeNews.net, also has its own look and quirks; I don’t see any stylistic resemblance to other popular type information sites, like iLT, TypeDaily, Typographica, or Typophile. Now the Keller duo has officially entered the type business…

  • Dmig2 published! (Read the HTML version)

    Dan Reynolds
    8 Sep 2009 | 11:44 pm
    Years ago, in what seems to have been a time before the German type blogs Slanted and FontBlog were born, I recall often visiting a site called Design Made in Germany. Under the motto “German design is gray,” this site offered users a reduced, simple interface, as well as lively discussion. It was not unique on my radar; the two German type fora Typografie.info and TypeForum were great sites to visit as well. But dmig did occasionally have interesting type and font-related threads. At some point, the site disappeared into the ether, but I never seemed to notice. Slanted had become…
 
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    upscale typography

  • Typeviews – The Slanted Interviews

    admin
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:09 am
    Since 2004 Slanted magazine has interviewed more than 100 designers from all over the world. Now it has collected 61 of these interviews in one publication, Typeviews. Some of the magazine’s fanatic readers have been lucky to own the first 5 issues which are sold out. In the 322 pages of Typeviews you may explore great [...]

  • Daily Stylistic Initials

    admin
    20 Oct 2009 | 11:42 pm
    llustrator, designer and typographer Jessica Hische from Brooklyn New York, loves drawing type. Jessica came up with idea to create a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap every working day and offer them for free to bloggers around the world. Here is an interesting way to make your blog look more appealing. This is an ongoing [...]

  • Typodarium 2010. Your Typographic Wake-Up Call

    admin
    16 Oct 2009 | 2:25 am
    Following the success of the first issue of tear-off calendar typodarium 2009, the german creative team Magma, headed by Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit, presents the new one for 2010 which has just been published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. This tear-off calendar presents 365 different typefaces by 180 designers from 30 countries. Traditional, functional and inspirational artwork at the front [...]

  • Type Design Tips from Computer Arts

    admin
    12 Oct 2009 | 11:57 pm
    The October issue of Computer Arts Magazine speaks to 30 type practitioners around the globe who offer their expert advice on type design. From leading and kerning to managing fonts, designers reveal 114 pro type tips they follow to the letter. Here is a small excerpt with some of them: “…Never just shrink full-size caps [...]

  • Parachute wins 3 Awards

    admin
    29 Sep 2009 | 2:34 am
    The results of the International Type Design Competition “Modern Cyrillic 2009″ were announced last week. The competition took place in Moscow and was held by ParaType with support by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of Russia. It was dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great’s reform of Russian typography. This event follows the [...]
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  • Jim Parkinson fonts now available from Ascender

    billdavis
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    Ascender Corp is pleased to announce that the Parkinson Type Design collection is now available at AscenderFonts.com. Jim Parkinson is noted for his lettering expertise found in a wide range of custom logos and nameplates for magazines & newspapers and also for his wonderful assortment of text and display fonts. The Parkinson Type Design font collection is available in TrueType and OpenType formats for purchase and immediate download from the AscenderFonts.com website. Ascender also offers the Parkinson fonts for license to software developers, hardware manufacturers and digital content…

  • Terminal Design Inc. launches new website and releases 146 new fonts

    terminaldesign
    12 Nov 2009 | 11:14 am
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Brooklyn, New York — November 12, 2009 Terminal Design Inc., a boutique provider of high quality font products, announced today the release of five new font families, containing a total of 146 new fonts. The release coincided with Terminal Design’s launch of its new website, designed and programmed by the web development firm adcSTUDIO. The result of two years work, all the new fonts were designed by Terminal Design principal James Montalbano. “We set about to dramatically increase the size of our retail font library,” said Mr. Montalbano. “ Working in…

  • St Bride Library: Isotype Revisited

    Miss Tiffany
    12 Nov 2009 | 10:50 am
    * Three short talks * Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 7pm * In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation * Admission £7 - concessions £5 - Friends of St Bride £3 * Pay on the door Three short talks about lesser-known aspects of Isotype, a method for showing facts and connections in pictorial form. The talks draw on new research from the ‘Isotype revisited’ project at the University of Reading. Matthew Eve: From hieroglyphics to Isotype ————————————————————— Between…

  • CheapProFonts - Newsletter 09-03 : Geometry Soft Pro

    Roger S. Nelsson
    10 Nov 2009 | 12:12 pm
    This is not a regular newsletter with various reworked fonts, but a presentation of the first part of a large project of NEW fonts I’m working on. :) The “Geometry Pro” family has been designed to be the final word in purely geometric fonts, and this rounded “Soft” sub-family is the ultimate web 2.0 style font collection. ;) Even though it is strictly geometric (as drawn with a compass and a ruler fixed to 90 and 45 degree angles) it is not slavishly modular: letters have differing widths, and the sidebearings, spacing and kerning has been finely adjusted to…

  • St Bride Library: Type matters?

    Miss Tiffany
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm
    * Evening discussion * Wednesday 11 November 2009 at 6pm. Bar 9pm. * In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation * Admission £10 · Concessions £7 · Friends of St Bride £5 Tickets: http://typematters.eventbrite.com/ Four LCC alumni, Eugenie Dodd, Maggie Gordon, Robin Dodd and Bob Gordon (designers/ typographers) are hosting a platform for an illustrated discussion of current and future typographic topics, posing questions for deliberation. After a break for drinks there will be an audience debate – issues raised and opinions aired. Afterwards the bar will be open to continue discussions…
 
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    Type Specimen Pool

  • My zipper font

    21 Nov 2009 | 11:57 am
    deux-chi has added a photo to the pool: I saw somewhere a zipper font, but it olny had letters in the bottom dents. I decided to make one, where both parts of the zipper have letters. Not quite decided on the name yet though – as a font named Zipper already exists. It has the full ASCII table, but I have plans to make a more or less decent European language support for it.

  • hand made type

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:13 am
    Tim Degner has added a photo to the pool:

  • caligraphy

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:13 am
    Tim Degner has added a photo to the pool:

  • hand drawn stitched letters

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:13 am
    Tim Degner has added a photo to the pool:

  • Suave reloaded

    17 Nov 2009 | 5:26 am
    Ale Paul has added a photo to the pool: Suave Script is now Suave Script Pro. For the new Pro version a number of endings, some ligatures and an extensive range of languages were covered (Western and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Maltese and Celtic). www.sudtipos.com
 
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    Fonts.com: About Fonts

  • Free Fonts (2)

    16 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm
    Free Fonts (2)

  • Discourse Type

    16 Nov 2009 | 3:08 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.

  • Free Fonts Download(10)

    16 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm
    Free Fonts Download(10)

  • DynaComware

    16 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm
    DynaComware has become the leading font developer in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) market, 1987

  • Free Fonts (6)

    16 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm
    Free Fonts (6)
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    Ministry of Type

  • Making The Complex of All of These

    Aegir Hallmundur
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:03 am
    I got the link to this video on YouTube via Jason Santa-Maria on Twitter. It’s compiled from around 3000 images taken over 2 months documenting the creation of 35 hand-made books at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. There’s a website with more info and clearer photos here. The whole thing is lovely and worth watching — note especially the attention to detail with the thread colour for the binding and the creation of the headband. These images are all from the video:

  • Star Patterns

    Aegir Hallmundur
    15 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pm
    I’ve had a few emails (so soon!) asking how I created my version of the star posters in an earlier article. I created mine using Photoshop vectors (out of habit) but Illustrator, or indeed any app that supports vectors, would be fine — just adapt the processes to your app. So, without further ado… You need to create two sizes of star. Mark Brooks used an additional star shape that was an outline, so you can create one of those as well if you want. The simplest way is to draw a square (mine was 40px × 40px) then create four circles of the same dimensions, offset them to the…

  • Dot, Dot, Dot

    Aegir Hallmundur
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:04 am
    Some time ago I quietly redid the logo for The Ministry of Type, recreating the crown image out of little dots. I didn’t make an announcement out of it at the time, but I was (and am) pleased with it — it’s a lot more me now. I had a number of reasons for wanting to redo it, mainly that even though I drew the original crown image, it was very close to the official ones, and related to that, those Keep Calm and Carry On posters have become so incredibly popular that I’ve had more than one person ask whether there was a link between them and my site. Short and long answer:…

  • Star Posters

    Aegir Hallmundur
    15 Nov 2009 | 6:12 am
    These posters by Mark Brooks for Santa Monica are great. I’ve had the page on ISO50 open in a tab for a while — The idea here is interesting and worth looking at; using the Santa Monica logo to create the halftone pattern, but using a two and three-layer effect using different sizes and treatments of the star. I wanted to have a closer look and see whether it was hard to create the effect. Turns out it’s not really, it’s just a bit time consuming and needs some concentration. It also makes your eyes go squiffy so best to work with low contrast colours until you’re…

  • Dutch Covers

    Aegir Hallmundur
    15 Nov 2009 | 2:44 am
    BibliOdyssey put up this great collection of Dutch picture-book covers from 1810 to 1950. There are some lovely illustrations, examples of lettering and type treatments on the covers, one of which I’ve traced below. I was thinking about tracing the illustration on this one, mainly for the overall effect it gives than for anything else, but I figure I’ll save that for a rainy day. Go and look at the rest of the covers, here. ‘Wat Hansje Zag’ by Dick Poortvliet, illustrated by van Douwe Nieuwenhuis, 1948
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    TypeCulture

  • ExtraLights for Expo Sans!

    17 Nov 2009 | 7:41 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.

  • Our Newest Essay

    12 Oct 2009 | 7:14 am
    Juliet Shen’s fascinating dissertation about America’s most prolific type designer.

  • New Links in the Research Directory

    12 Oct 2009 | 7:14 am
    Milestones in Typography and Handwriting to Printed Type and a fine look at the Arts & Crafts movement and the traditionalist printing it inspired: Arts and Crafts & The Private Press.

  • News From Ntulya

    12 Oct 2009 | 7:13 am
    In March, TypeCulture pledged support to the Africa Schoolhouse Foundation’s pilot project in Tanzania. A progress report has been posted on TypeCulture’s Facebook page.

  • New in the Research Directory . . .

    15 Jul 2009 | 3:42 pm
    . . . and new online: The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection. Absolutely fabulous. Look for it in the Research Directory under Museums & Collections.
 
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    Swiss Legacy

  • Bye Bye BB/Saunders

    Xavier Encinas
    10 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Very sad news. Respect BB/Saunders.

  • Ffffoundbook

    Xavier Encinas
    27 Oct 2009 | 3:24 pm
    Fabian Jochen Kanzler & Steve Michaelis came up with this very nice Ffffoundbook that gather more than 5000 images from the bookmarking website.

  • Regular, Graphic Design Today

    Xavier Encinas
    26 Oct 2009 | 7:22 pm
    © Clusta Regular, Graphic Design Today Graphic design is in constant flux. In recent years, the digitalisation of media and the return of materials and personal identity have strongly influenced the development of graphic design and its adjoining disciplines. This evolution has prompted designers to define new rules and aesthetics paving the way for future media. Regular documents the current state of graphic design and presents a new generation of creative excellence. The book features examples of progressive manifestations in the printed form from poster design, book and magazine editorial…

  • Laika, a dynamic typeface

    Xavier Encinas
    22 Oct 2009 | 11:35 am
    With LAIKA, there is finally a font that can seamlessly use the whole spectrum of its cuts. A font that is able to move between its extremes in real time. An interactive font that is able to respond to its surroundings. A font that questions deadlocked dogmas and throws up completely new design questions, and thus has the potential to revolutionise the understanding of digital typography. More here

  • Folch Studio Updates

    Xavier Encinas
    2 Oct 2009 | 12:09 pm
    The brilliant Barcelona based studio Folch Studio updated with some new sexy projects. Folch studio is one of my all time favorite design practice…
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    GEOTYPOGRAFIKA

  • Geotypografika La Paz

    Erik Brandt
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:28 pm
    Graphic and typographic images from La Paz, Bolivia. Above: Just one of several new graphic and typographic photographs from the street of La Paz, Bolivia. Please see the Geotypografika Flickr page for more and check back often, I will be uploading new photos as time (and internet access) allows. Above: From the hotel window, the striking Illimani mountain, whose highest peak reaches 6490m. The city itself is infinitely beautiful, as are it’s people. Many thanks to my guide Pedro and new friend Antonio, who braved the amazing suspension bridge with me today. ¡La Paz y BICeBé, muchas…

  • Bienal Internacional del Cartel Bolivia

    Erik Brandt
    15 Nov 2009 | 12:05 pm
    BICeBé 2009, Nov. 17-21 La Paz, Bolivia Above: Via BICeBé 2009. This coming week, I am delighted to be traveling to La Paz, Bolivia to attend the BICeBé 2009, Bienal Internacional del Cartel Bolivia. Organized by Susana Machiado and David Criado, it promises and amazing array of international speakers, workshops, and exhibitions. I hope to share much information here over the course of the next week. Above: Via the BICeBé 2009 website, details from the event listings. Above: Via the BICeBé 2009 website, 76 Designers for Fukuda, see the online exhibition here (my own listing and a former…

  • Dave Schroeder / iPhone photographs.

    Erik Brandt
    13 Nov 2009 | 9:23 am
    Masterful creations via Pilotvibe. Above: Pilotvibe proprietor and Flashbelt founder Dave Schroeder’s inspired tile sequence. Danke Schön, Dave! And in the news, Flashbelt 2010 dates have been finalized, June 13-16, 2010. Related posts:Flashbelt 2009Adieux, iPhone.Mehdi Davaei / New Posters

  • Arlen / Fontstruct Top Pick

    Erik Brandt
    13 Nov 2009 | 8:32 am
    Courtney Billadeau’s work in progress. Above: MCAD student Courtney’s Fontruction, Arlen. Already selected as a ‘Top Pick’ by Fontstruct staff in October, Courtney has been diligently updating and refining her font. Look for more examples of student work from our introductory type grupetto soon! More process shots on Geotypografika Flickr. Above: MCAD student Sam’s Fonstruct in progress. More on Geotypografika Flickr. Related posts:GRD_3020 WorkshopMCAD_GRD_2010_F09_BrandtGRD_2000 Workshop

  • Annie Yiling Wang / A Secondary Education

    Annie Wang
    12 Nov 2009 | 7:02 pm
    Political graphics. She writes: A couple of summers ago I interned at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics out in Los Angeles. This was before I knew that I would someday become involved in graphic design and visual culture. I was an archival intern so I was lucky enough to have been exposed to hundreds of political posters first hand. These posters reflected the voices of struggle and resistance; often not the voices we hear in the books. Not to mention, these posters came well before digital means. Whether its the historical context that drives your curiosity or the poster…
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