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.”
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.
logoarchive on Instagram
A study of form language in logo design. Updated frequently. A project by BP&O. — bpando.org
Cheers! from Hoefler & Co
The newest edition of Hoefler & Co’s always inspiring typographic displays at Discover.typography — Cheers!
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.
Roadliners
Typographers of the Road. Watch these guys freehand street letters. They should overshoot those curves but it’s still very cool!
The Making of Bus Blinds
The level of care that is taken with these handmade objects is impressive.
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. (more…)
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...
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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…”
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.”
Sign Painters: The Movie
Sign Painters celebrates the hand-painted sign industry, an American tradition. (more…)
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. (more…)
Paul Mijksenaar’s Wayfinding Design
Short video interview with Paul Mijksenaar on wayfinding design…
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.
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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read Moree‑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?
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...
Read MoreHelvetica Film Videos & Prints
New video clips and letterpress prints have been posted to the Helvetica film website.
Fred Eerdekens’ Light Play
Fred Eerdekens is showing Nr. 14 Light Play, Z33, Hasselt (B), Belgium October 29, 2006–January 21, 2007
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.
“Good web design means that you don’t have to user test”
Edward Tufte on user testing and analytical design.