Grafica Della Strada, The Signs Of Italy
The Castan Font by Carter Wong
The typographic work of Alex Fowkes for Sony Music
Book Life
Inside the office of Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter.
Brooklyn’s Earl Kallemeyn Talks Letterpress
Handmade Stuff at Papillon Press
Rob’s Letterpress 101
Ellen Lupton’s Bauhaus Bags Lab at MoMA (2009)
Preview FontShop fonts directly in your Photoshop comps
Movable Type Kickstarter Project Gremolata & Cancellaresca Milanese
The Bouroullec Brothers on their new book entitled "Works"
Donald Beekman & Albert-Jan Pool — FontCast #15
Fathom Studio Letterpress Service
Aaron Draplin on Aaron Draplin
John Pawson’s Visual Inventory
Dusty Signs, Hand-lettered
Slow Death of a Skilled Trade
How to foster creativity: Forget about it
Erik Spiekermann’s Book Lift… who wouldn’t want a bookcase like that?
Apple’s Jonathan Ive with Stephen Fry in San Francisco
Fontanel Jobs, Graphic Design Commercial
Best Made Co. Founder Peter Buchanan-Smith on Starting a Business
Dieter Rams on The Culture Show
Letterpress in Singapore: The Gentlemen's Press
John Pawson on the design of his own house
Wanted: WordPress Ninjas
The British Library’s 60,000-Book iPad App
Wanted: 25 Graphic Designers
Javier Mariscal’s Advice for Young Designers
Sipho Mabona Origami
The Blue Lady’s New Look
Typography Deconstructed Letterpress Poster
John Rodker’s Ovid Press
Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico (1818) is Online
Typobasel’s Typostammtisch
Monocle Alpino, Anti-iPad Device
Starbucks’ Smart Rebrand
LH Line1 Sans, Opensource Free Font by Lufthamn Studio
Lego Letterpress
Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli
032c Magazine
Eastern European Matchbox Labels
Jan Tschichold for Penguin Scores, 1949
Sensaway by Áron Jancsó
Moleskine Extra Small Planners
A Magazine Designer’s Guide to Designing Magazines
Best Alternative to Helvetica
On Maps Made of Words and Automated Design
Type In Print by Sergey Shapiro
ZEITtype for Die Zeit by Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy
Bracket
Brand for Flint Hair Salon by Bibliothèque
BMW's Retinal Branding
Refracted Alphabet
Seravek from Process Type Foundry
Clipper Ship Cards
5 Year Datebook
Pantone Color of the Year for 2011
Reinventing the Camera Strap
Spanish/English Augmented Reality Translation App for iPhone
MyFonts’ Creative Characters by Jan Middendorp
Reverting to Type
“It is New North Press’ great pleasure to invite you to our very own typographic extravaganza! Curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type will showcase the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world, contributions from three leading art colleges and the first eight in an ongoing series of prints with especially invited collaborators.”
The Number 17 by Matt Stevens
“I was contacted by Matthew Jacobson, who was curating a collection of designs and illustrations that were personal interpretations of the number 17. They are all included in a book that would be delivered as a gift for Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler of the design firm Number 17 in New York City.”
The Procrastinators
The Evolution of the Letter A by Emma Quayle
The Whole Story Photo Book by Debra Folz
Utopia London
Beware of the Dogma
“Beware of the Dogma is a booklet for graphic designers wishing to reflect on and question notions of design as a discipline. It explores the theoretical nature of rules and obedience to them using extracts from an interview with a legal philosopher and the theories of Hart and Kemp. The aim of the book is to encourage designers to understand the goal a rule serves instead of dogmatically following certain rules of typography.”
A Battle of Wills
8 Faces by Elliot Jay Stocks
Erik Spiekermann on Deutsche Welle TV
50 Reading Lists for Designers
Michael Bierut on Typography
Hart’s Rules for Compositors and Readers
Type Desk Welcomes Yoko Sakao Ohama
René Gruau’s Work for Dior
“Since founding her Munich-based graphic arts gallery, Bartsch & Chariau, in 1980, Joëlle Chariau has been an advocate of René Gruau, writes Liz Farrelly. Across the river from the Design Museum’s Drawing Fashion exhibition (where Chariau discussed fashion illustration), the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House are staging Dior Illustrated: René Gruau and the Line of Beauty. The show explores his life-long collaboration with first the man, Christian Dior, and then the brands, House of Dior and Christian Dior Parfums.”
May the Font Be With You
Making Grids with Sigurður Ármannsson’s Easy Grid Calculator
Geometric ID for Whole Education by Wire
Capucine by Process Type Foundry
“Although Capucine defies traditional categorization, it sits in a genre we are drawn to as users of type: a face with distinct personality able to straddle the worlds of both text and display with ease. In this context it should come as no surprise that its designer was born and raised in France, a country whose type history is rich with successful instances of such attempts. From Auriol and Grasset – typefaces that became symbolic of the Art Nouveau style – to the iconic designs of Roger Excoffon in the 1950s and 60s, French type designers have often tried to fulfill the requirements of efficient text setting while retaining a gestural quality. Like many of its French predecessors, Capucine is driven by the eye rather than geometrical dogma, bringing a warmth and liveliness to the page.”
Bag your Monocles
Crumpled City Map by Emanuele Pizzolorusso
Bodoni Monogrammed Prada Sunglasses
The WSJ Hedcuts by Randy Glass
Hand Drawn Type
The most-read man in the world—Matthew Carter
“Matthew Carter, a type designer and the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, was recently approached in the street near his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A woman greeted him by name. “Have we met?” Mr Carter asked. No, she said, her daughter had pointed him out when they were driving down the street a few days before. “Is your daughter a graphic designer?” he inquired. “She’s in sixth grade,” came the reply.”
Labels from 1800s France
Making the Coolest Use of Space
The 365 Calendrical Notebook
“365 is a calendrical notebook with serially numbered pages and an A to Z. The latest editions are again thread-stitched and either available with 12 rainbow-coloured papers or with Alster Werkdruck and gold-edging on three sides. Typeset in Poster Bodoni, designed by Greige/Buero fuer Design, printed and bound in Berlin for do you read me?! in a limited and numbered edition of 500 each.”
Bags from the Past: the Airline Bag Lounge
Flight Path Visualizations by Aaron Koblin
“This work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the project “Celestial Mechanics” by colleagues Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.” —Aaron Koblin, creator of this great work.
Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries over 200 Years in 4 Minutes
Bygone Airline IDs
Morgan Press Wood Type Specimen
Adrian Shaughnessy on his book “Graphic Design: A User’s Manual”
Bon Graf Grid Paper
“Graphic Design studio Famous Visual Services present Bon Graf, a range of beautifully crafted grid layout pads printed on acid free 100gsm uncoated paper and made in Australia. In this our first release the collection consists of a web designer layout pad, a dot grid layout pad, a project briefing pad and an isometric grid layout pad.”
Titillium "Open Typographic Font"
CNN en Español Gets a Tilde
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Unmakeable Book
The Book Work of David Pearson
Vintage Food Packaging
Flowers + Newsprint, Beautiful
Le Buro ID by Inventaire
Supergraphics from Unit Editions
Businesspeople Need to Become Designers
The Story Behind Angry Paul Rand
“Over three months in the Summer of 2010, in addition to my normal Twitter account @mgoldst, I had a Twitter account by the name of @AngryPaulRand. Like every designer I have ever met, I had some things I had always wanted to say, and using Paul Rand as a foil seemed OK to me—he was dead, after all, and had a reputation as a brilliant but tough personality. It also seemed like a fun thing to do while waiting for Graduate School to start. I created the account, tossed out a few funny, pointed tweets, and two months later I had almost 15,000 followers. 15,000 followers on Twitter put this account in the 99.87% percentile in terms of Twitter infamy….”
Copenhagen Wall Calendar by Urbncal
