The Fonts of Star Trek

“Time for a typo­graph­ic his­to­ry of the sci­ence fic­tion fran­chise that spans half a cen­tu­ry.”

Neubau Akademie™ TS 1–26 Lim­it­ed Edi­tion Spec­i­men Box

A spe­cial lim­it­ed edi­tion box set cel­e­brat­ing the release of NB Akademie™ on Octo­ber 31st, 2016 — now avail­able for pre-order, ship­ping Novem­ber 2016.

My 2¢

Alpha­bettes’ col­lec­tion of their recent “My 2¢” series.

19th Cen­tu­ry The­atre Con­vert­ed to Book­store

The El Ate­neo Grand Splen­did the­atre in Buenos Aires has been con­vert­ed to a book­store.

Stu­dio Cre­ates 100 Unique Posters for Rot­ter­dam Archi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val

100 unique posters by Stu­dio Spass are on dis­play through­out the streets of Rot­ter­dam.

Granshan 2016 Call for Entries Dead­line is August 31st

“From now on type design­ers, man­u­fac­tur­ers or pub­lish­ers have the chance to sub­mit type­faces or type fam­i­lies in three new main cat­e­gories.”

Such Threes and Six­es, Eights and Nines?

Gelett Burgess wrote his may­or a poem about the city’s bad street sign typog­ra­phy. May­or La Guardia respond­ed in kind.

Want­ed: Free­lance UI Design­er

We need two UI design­ers for some riff­ing and respon­sive cod­ing. We are a typo­graph­ic design shop. We col­lab­o­rate with clients on projects rang­ing from brand iden­ti­ty to UI designs for shop floor automa­tion sys­tems.

A work in progress – Nas­sim 2.0

“On May 17, 2006, I was in the process of defin­ing Ara­bic mark posi­tions for Nas­sim in a round­about process involv­ing a dum­my Font­Lab Mul­ti­ple­Mas­ter file, cus­tom export scripts and Microsoft’s beloved Visu­al Open­Type Lay­out Tool – VOLT.”

DAKU’s Typo­graph­ic Sun­di­al

“The first ded­i­cat­ed pub­lic art dis­trict in india came to life this year. as part of st+art, 25 local and inter­na­tion­al street artists descend­ed upon the icon­ic lod­hi colony area, turn­ing the urban land­scape into an open air gallery.”

The Last Punch­cut­ter

“If each com­pa­ny derives from an alche­my between peo­ple and tech­niques, the foundry of char­ac­ters, whose heart is the engrav­ing depart­ment, is an extra­or­di­nary exam­ple of skills and unequalled aes­thet­ic sen­si­tiv­i­ty, which can be found in the doc­u­men­tary in the fig­ure of Giuseppe Brachi­no, who was the head of the engrav­ing depart­ment of the Nebi­o­lo Com­pa­ny from Turin. He shows the cre­ation of a punch, from which mov­able types derived, repeat­ing the same ges­tures of Francesco Grif­fo who engraved the round and ital­ic types of Aldus Manu­tius in Venice, five cen­turies ago.”
— Enri­co Tal­lone

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Via Typography.guru

Nasa Flight-Deck Typog­ra­phy

Thanks @miklb

May­or of Lon­don Makes Open Call to Cre­atives

“The May­or of Lon­don Sadiq Khan is invit­ing cre­atives and agen­cies to sub­mit strate­gic media ideas and visu­al respons­es to a new open-brief cam­paign declar­ing Lon­don open for busi­ness, inno­va­tion and cul­ture.”

DesignStudio’s Transat­lantic Book­shelf

“Found­ed in 2009, Design­Stu­dio was set up by Paul Stafford and Ben Wright, and some of the agency’s biggest projects have includ­ed the Pre­mier League rebrand ear­li­er this year and the Airbnb revamp in 2014, both of which echo the studio’s ethos of help­ing brands to exist across dif­fer­ent plat­forms.”

Is the Fight to Revive Tra­di­tion­al Let­ter­press a Los­ing Bat­tle?

“Ask any let­ter­press lover why they favor the old-school print­ing method, and they’ll like­ly tell you it’s less about the look and more about the feel.”

Three Pio­neers of Hebrew Graph­ic Design

The cat­a­logue presents for the first time the works of three pio­neers of the new Hebrew Let­ter: Moshe Spitzer, Hen­ri Fried­laen­der and Franzis­ca Baruch.

Mak­ing Fonts: Proza Libre

“When I start­ed the devel­op­ment of Proza, I didn’t want to deal with the lim­i­ta­tions of a low-res­o­lu­tion ras­ter­iz­er. As a result, Proza is com­plete­ly stuffed with diag­o­nal and curved lines, and tiny details that help to bring the tex­ture alive in print, but that are some­thing of a night­mare for a low-res­o­lu­tion ras­ter­iz­er.”

Tobias Frere-Jones Break­ing Things Delib­er­ate­ly

“When try­ing to fig­ure out a prob­lem, pause for minute, and see if you can make it worse. A struc­ture can real­ly describe itself as it falls apart.” https://frerejones.com/

The Typog­ra­phy Idea Book

A new book by New York Times art direc­tor Steven Heller and graph­ic design expert Gail Ander­son, The Typg­ra­phy Idea Book: Inspi­ra­tion from 50 Mas­ters.

H&Co Intro­duces Office Fonts

H&Co has released a col­lec­tion of fonts spe­cial­ly designed for users of Microsoft® Word, Excel®, Pow­er­point®, Pages®, Num­bers®, and Keynote®.

New ID for Mas­ter­Card

Estab­lished in 1966, Mas­ter­Card is a tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny in the glob­al pay­ments indus­try.

Two­Points’ Iden­ti­ty for a Span­ish Design Award

Ham­burg-based design stu­dio Two­Points has cre­at­ed this iden­ti­ty and cat­a­logue for the ADI (Asso­ci­a­tion of Indus­tri­al Design) in Barcelona.