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Typographica
For graphic designers beginning to experiment in type design, a geometric or modular typeface is a natural starting point. Illustrator and other programs offer a simple collection of elements such as circles, squares, and triangles which can be combined to create a passable alphabet. This is the same route I...
Fraktur Mon Amour, 2nd Edition
Fraktur Mon Amour is the work of Judith Schalansky, written while she was a student of the Communication Design program in Potsdam. She developed a serious passion for blackletter and was disappointed to find all the reference books about this fascinating genre are very dated and often quite staid, and...
Special thanks to Gestalten for sponsoring the Typographica nameplate for October, 2009 with Bonesana. Gestalten is known for very contemporary designs — the modular and the post-mod — so this tribute to the 18th century is quite a departure. Designed by Matthieu Cortat of Switzerland, Bonesana was initially developed for the...
Audio from the Web Fonts Panel at TypeCon2009
Yesterday at TypeCon2009 in Atlanta, 11 representatives from the type community packed a stage to discuss the controversial and convoluted issue of licensing fonts for the web. The full two hours of audio is now online....
Marlene is an elegant, high contrast Egyptian face with a distinctive and contemporary calligraphic flourish. When I first saw it I was impressed at how incredibly crisp it was, as if drawn with a pen so sharp it could just as easily cut the paper as leave ink there. The...
A slew of slab serifs were released in 2008. Most of them continuing last year’s trend of following the cute and chunky approach, often to delicious effect. But as marvelous as so many of those slab serifs were, sadly they were let down when it came to lighter, or more...
Ministry of Type
The Financial Services Authority
It looks like the UK’s Financial Services Authority, theoretically responsible for making sure financial institutions (like banks) stick to the law, don’t do stupid things and don’t rip people off, is to be shut down, or merged into the Bank of England, presumably because it didn’t do enough of those...
Xavi García is a student at Central St. Martins, and recently produced this banknote-inspired piece, which I find quite beautiful. It’s entirely hand-drawn and has an impressive array of security features: watermarks, UV-responsive inks and see-through images — the attention to detail here is absolutely perfect. There’s a few images...
I wasn’t expecting to have anything to write about that was football-related, even during such a big event as the World Cup, but wonders never cease. When Benjamin Prescott mailed me about a personal project to create and sell limited edition World Cup wall charts he’d designed I had a...
I remember seeing, and liking, the first edition of the Virtual Water poster, and I see now there’s not only a new version but an iPhone app, which has even more information in it. I particularly like the visual style of the project — the simple black silhouettes and the...
These wooden name puzzles by John Christenson are great. Grain Edit posted about them recently and I kept the link — one part of me really wants one of my own name, but the sensible part of me warns that I’ve got more than enough stuff and I’m supposed to...
I’ve been following with some interest (especially after my e-reader post) the reaction to Wired’s iPad app. To say that it’s polarised opinion is an understatement and a half, and there have been a hell of a lot of confident-sounding assertions and assumptions about all aspects of how to take...
Typografism
Månadens design – extended version
Idag är jag insnöad. Det skulle kunna beskriva Typografism-sidans tillstånd, men jag har varit pappa-ledig, och alla de som sa ”hehe unge man, du kommer inte ha tid till något annat” när jag har sagt att ”jag tänker försöka driva på ett par egna projekt också” fick alltså rätt. Några saker...
Några plockar svamp. Andra bär. Själv har jag irrat runt på myrar med en hink halvfull med hjortron. Det var länge sedan nu. I år plockade jag något betydligt hårdare än kart. Klossar, av päronträ kanske. Ett vanligt material för de här typerna. Tog bilen till Skarpnäck. Grovarbetet var redan gjort. I...
Häromdagen gjorde jag ett försök att föreläsa om typografi på Berghs SoC. Ursprungligen var planen att prata om Corporate typography, men då jag känner mig som en managementparodi var gång jag tar den där sortens ord i min mun så försökte jag översätta det. När inte det kändes helt bra...
Då det inte är var dag ett svenskt typsnitt tas upp i FontShops egen FontFontkollektion (just nu kan ni ladda ned FF Dagny light därifrån, så passa på), och då jag från tid till annan haft ett finger med i spelet och fått komma med åsikter och råd om det...
Framtiden var bättre förr sägs det. I synnerhet på 50- och 60-talen med en ohämmad expansion åt alla håll. Ryggradar skulle rätas och Folkhem skulle byggas, rymden erövras. Efter månen skulle andra planeter besökas, koloniseras och så småningom besökas i charterpaketering. Rymd-turism. Fu-turism. Samtiden innehåller också ett uns futurism. I kristider...
På fredagen fick Stockholms typografi-aficionados finbesök; Stephen Coles (FontShop San Fransisco, där han även skriver i the Font Feed & Typographica) anlände från TypoBerlin via Köpenhamn och Malmö. Tillsammans med Göran Söderström och Stefan Hattenbach intog vi lunch på Lao-Wai där vi satt och jämförde iPhone apps, lite som i Fucking Åmål....
House Industries Show and Tell
Adam and I helped our dad with some hot rod inventory yesterday and came across this department store drag slick complete with the pre-Helvetica Penneys logo and a tasty little directional device embossed on the sidewall....
Apron test using the Ampersand fabric....
Always a treat to add another specimen to the Erik van Blokland letter & label collection....
Bearded gave Blaktur some shine for The Pittsburgh Citizen....
Bookplate we did for an end of the year teacher gift with a little typographic help from Eames and another Mister B....
Our recent visit to Taliesin West made me want to revisit this interview. So good. ...
Typography Served Featured Projects
Cargo TRF is a revision of existing Cargo typeface dated 2001. New Cargo consists of three styles â" A (plain), B (punch-out holes) and C (screw heads)....
A series of Dead Outlaws....
Tabloid typeface / Tabloid specimen
Tabloid typeface and specimen design....
Posters for the Nike and One Small Seed Magazine "After 10 Project". Illustration and hand generated typography by Bruce Mackay....
This was designed for a theoretical restaurant. The restaurant was inspired by George Washington Carver. Everything in the restaurant was peanut based. All collateral in the design was silk screened....
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World Cup Typography: Yomar Augusto
Brazilian type designer Yomar Augusto designed Unity, a custom typeface for Adidas for the World Cup 2010. ...
Better Reading on the iPad: iBooks 1.1, VQR, & PDF
Some good things have happened since my post full of iPad grumbles, including iBooks 1.1 and some hope for typographic control in the ePub format. ...
Shouting those two magic words in the right sequence – ”Free fonts!” – is sure to grab everyone’s attention. Because, admit it, everybody loves free fonts. However, free is never free just like that. And free is not always really free. It can sometimes become very expensive, and even potentially ruin your...
World Cup Typography: Paul Barnes
British type designer Paul Barnes designed Crepello and Olembe, two custom typefaces for Puma for the World Cup 2010. ...
An interview with Hubert Jocham of the eponimous German type foundry. ...
ScreenFonts: Iron Man 2, Robin Hood, MacGruber, Micmacs, Survival Of The Dead
Our monthly review of movie poster typography. ...
LetterCult
ICONS, I-CHARTS AND MORE. Great job with the letter I. Submit the the letter J by Monday, July 5 (a day later than normal) and we will publish a day later, Tuesday, July 6. TOBY SNOWDON TEMESHI TOM ADDISON OCULAR INVASION CHE SERHIY LEE-ANN DONALDSON TONYA DOUGHTY SALLI SUE SWINDELL ONE DAY VACATION BRUCE STAINSBY RORY PHILLIPS JENNI LEDER LISA RIDGELY MARK FISHER MARCIO DUARTE SHRUTI SADEKAR...
HERE’S H! Great work everyone! Submit the the letter I by June 20. BRYAN DUNN BRUCE STAINSBY DON BULL ALEX LUTKUS RORY PHILLIPS THOMAS DECHOUX RAEDIA SIKKEMA ALBINSON CHRIS STREGER MATHIEU RATIER FLORIN PREUßLER Merijn de Buisonjé MISAEL / MISA 9 DAV(ID HUBNER) OCULAR INVASION MARCIO DUARTE JESSICA FREASE MARK FISHER LEE-ANN DONALDSON REBECA VARELA CHE SERHIY KRISTIN LEIGH KOEFOED WING LAU DAN GNEIDING JULES R. GREG ECKLER DAVE BAILEY UGLY BOY DEAD CAT FINNIE ONE DAY VACATION JESSIE GLASS JEFF RICKARD ADAM...
LESS TALK, MORE LETTERS. Click for G and g. CAROLYN SEWELL ONE DAY VACATION JESSIE GLASS JOSE MIGUEL CONDE ALONSO MARCIO DUARTE TONYA DOUGHTY MISAEL / MISA 9 DON MOYER DAV(ID HUBNER) CHRIS PIASCIK WING LAU KENNETH GLENN DAVE BAILEY TEMESHI KRISTIN LEIGH KOEFOED TERO JUUTI TOM ADDISON SALLI SUE SWINDELL GREG ECKLER FLORIN FLOREA LISA RIDGELY MARK FISHER LEE-ANN DONALDSON JULES R. REBECA VARELA JESSICA FREASE PAULO DARIO RYAN FREASE RORY PHILLIPS JOHN KANE SMITH BRUNO HERFST IRA CUMMINGS CHARLIE ZINNO DAN GNEIDING UGLY BOY...
FIS FOR FUN. Yes, making Custom Letters is mad fun. Welcome to the new people, and congrats to everyone who has gone A-F. If you want in on the fun, you can jump in any time, with any letter. G, especially the lowercase g, offers great possibilities for expression. Submit G by...
EIS UP. More clever and/or gorgeous stuff. For those of you who have run off A-E, congrats! Again, never too late to join in or catch up. Submit F by May 9. If you’ve submitted something for A, B, C or D, and don’t see it updated by Tuesday, email us. Now here’s...
ALPHABATTLE D is up. Fewer submissions this time, but still lots of beautiful executions! Again, never too late to join in or catch up, A, B, C, or D. Submit E by April 25. If you’ve submitted something for A, B, C or D, and don’t see it, email us. Oh yeah,...
Design Observer: Main Posts
Thoughts on design, sports, and the author's return to a South African township during the World Cup....
Now that the dust has settled on India's launch of their rupee symbol we are starting to see its application beyond the initial fanfare....
Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories and Collected Thoughts
Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art celebrates a form of documentation that is familiar to everyone — the list....
China Portfolio: From the Linked Hybrid to the Bug Dome
On Places, Architizer curates a portfolio of recent architecture in the People's Republic of China, from Beijing to Shanghai, Shenzhen to Chongqing....
The Language of Design Imperialism
Essay on the flawed language used to describe humanitarian design efforts and what it indicates....
Update on Art Center's Design Matters program, which prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya. Originally published July 18, 2009....