Author Archives: Theo Rosendorf

December 4, 2018
Posters for Migrants
For the holidays and into 2019, we are donating half of our poster sales to support Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States — AKA the “Migrant Caravan.”

December 15, 2016
Type for the Holidays — 25% off the TDR & Type Anatomy Print
Dearest Typos, Oak Knoll is running a holiday special for 25% off the 2nd edition of The Typographic Desk Reference, and we’re extending that same discount to our Type Anatomy Letterpress Print.

September 4, 2016
Schiphol Airport’s Dutch Masters Inspired 160 Billion Pixel 3D Cloud Display
Daan Roosegaarde’s ‘beyond’ is a permanent installation in departure hall 3 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

September 1, 2016
10% Drop in UK Students Taking Design & Technology
The government’s figures show 173,532 pupils took the subject in 2016 compared with 192,183 last year. A statement from the Design and Technology Association says this will have a knock-on effect on the uptake of design courses at A-level and undergraduate level. More here

August 31, 2016
logoarchive on Instagram
A study of form language in logo design. Updated frequently. A project by BP&O. — bpando.org

August 30, 2016
DIY Pencils

August 28, 2016
Cheers! from Hoefler & Co
The newest edition of Hoefler & Co’s always inspiring typographic displays at Discover.typography — Cheers!

August 28, 2016
Dan Rattigan & James Duffy Pore Over Original Futura Specimens

August 25, 2016
Test your Beziér Skills with Shape Type
Addictive bézier game by Mark Mackay: shape.method.ac

August 16, 2016
Graphic Means — A History of Graphic Design Production
It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works.

August 9, 2016
Roadliners
Typographers of the Road. Watch these guys freehand street letters. They should overshoot those curves but it’s still very cool!

August 9, 2016
The Making of Bus Blinds
The level of care that is taken with these handmade objects is impressive.

August 9, 2016
New Subway Logo Escapes Shitshow
Designers love to whine about new logos and this ID for Subway isn’t immune to that. Well, I would like to take this opportunity to complain about Subway’s old logo.

August 3, 2016
28 Days of Type News
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’ …

July 20, 2016
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…”

July 15, 2016
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.”

June 11, 2014
Sign Painters: The Movie
Sign Painters celebrates the hand-painted sign industry, an American tradition.

June 10, 2014
On Times New Roman
On one of the world’s most well known typefaces.

April 3, 2014
The Making of Neon Signs
‘Every neon sign has a “start and stop position,” a point on each letter where a tube begins and ends.

September 23, 2010
John Pawson on Plain Space

June 1, 2009
Paul Mijksenaar’s Wayfinding Design
Short video interview with Paul Mijksenaar on wayfinding design…

May 22, 2009
Tare Lugnt’s Latest Issue – Tattooed
The latest issue of Marc Strömberg’s magazine Tare Lugnt has been tattooed on his leg. Large-scale prints will go on display in Göteborg and Stockholm this month. More info at the Wall Street Journal and the Tare Lugnt site.

February 3, 2009
Slide Projectors & Intuition
David Carson might drive the gridnicks mad, but you can’t deny his ability to provoke a visceral response. Carson’s work in the early 90s tore a hole in graphic design. His typography, piled in broken heaps, managed to breath life into stodgy corporate communications. His work may look haphazard at times, but that doesn’t mean …

January 29, 2009
A Musician’s Visual Grid
With his new book, Grid Index, German musician and artist Carsten Nicolai claims to have “discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns.” This is certainly worth a look. It also comes with a CD containing all of the grids presented in the book as editable …

January 24, 2009
e-books vs paper, what’s your take?
Are you an old school bibliophile? Do you care what font a text is set in? Is resolution an issue? Is print dead?

November 29, 2008
Gepostet von Stani’s €5 Font
The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices and artists were invited to design a 5 euro coin around the concept of “Netherlands and Architecture.” Gepostet von Stani’s winning design renders the traditional portrait of the queen with a list of famous Dutch architects using a …

December 17, 2006
Helvetica Film Videos & Prints
New video clips and letterpress prints have been posted to the Helvetica film website.

November 8, 2006
Fred Eerdekens’ Light Play
Fred Eerdekens is showing Nr. 14 Light Play, Z33, Hasselt (B), Belgium October 29, 2006–January 21, 2007

September 25, 2006
Backspace’s Float
Backspace’s Float. Link from Stephan Thomas.

June 18, 2006
Adrian Frutiger: The Man of Black & White
German translator Christine Kopp writes and directs Adrian Frutiger, The Man of Black and White: a documentary about the type designer Adrian Frutiger.

May 10, 2006
Kathryn Cho’s Typecast
From Kathryn Cho comes Typecast: A Documentary on Swiss Design. Can’t wait to see it! Link from Design Observer

December 15, 2005
Use of the ampersand & and
When is it appropriate to use an ampersand “&” instead of the word “and”?

December 15, 2004
“Good web design means that you don’t have to user test”
Edward Tufte on user testing and analytical design.