Bildschöne Bücher
Bodo von Hodenberg of Berlin’s Bildschöne Bücher offers a novel angle to book dealing. Born out of his successful 25books.com, Hodenberg takes a curatorial approach to selling books on photography, art and design. See a video on Bildschöne Bücher at Monocle.
MetaSerif
We’re anxiously awaiting the release of Meta Serif, the companion face to Erik Spiekermann’s epic Meta.
Wim Crouwel Interview
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I5y3px4ovxE Designer Wim Crouwel at Galerie Anatome, Paris, February 2007.
Lucky Numer 13
Superstitious passengers force Brussels Airlines to add a 14th dot to their logo.
World Cup Design, Just Embarrassing
Erik Spiekermann criticizes the design concept for the 2006 World Cup. I had the pleasure of hanging around Erik Spiekermann at the ATypi conference in Lisbon this past October. Erik is one of the most entertaining presenters I’ve seen. Very inspiring. And funny as hell.
RIP Bill Stumpf
“…there is more risk in copying than there is in innovating. In other words, there’s more risk dwelling over gratuitous differences than there is trying to create real differences.” Bill Stumpf, Co-Designer of the Aeron Chair, passed away at 70, on August 30, 2006.
Helvetica, The Movie
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. The film was shot in high-definition on location in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium. It is currently in post-production and is slated to begin screening at film festivals worldwide...
Read MoreThe Thermochromic Egg
The UK’s Lion Quality is to start producing eggs with temperature-sensitive thermochromic print to let you know when it’s cooked soft, medium or hard-boiled.
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.
Just Enough Is More: Exhibition on Milton Glaser
“Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realized that it was total nonsense…” —Milton Glaser Brigham Young University Museum of Art exhibits works of Milton Glaser June 30 through October 7, 2006.
Kathryn Cho’s Typecast
From Kathryn Cho comes Typecast: A Documentary on Swiss Design. Can’t wait to see it!
the design annual ’06, Festhalle Messe Frankfurt
Some big names in industrial design will be at The Design Annual, inside: urban, May 6th–10th, 2006, Festhalle Frankfurt am Main. Link: the design annual
De Morgen Redesigns, from Tabloid to Berliner
Belgian’s broadsheet De Morgen—won Europe’s best designed newspaper in 2004—gets a redesign to a larger format with full color and new typography. The new typefaces are Gotham for section headers and the flag, Capitolium for headlines and body text, and ITC Conduit for summary decks, photo credits, graphics, etc. Link:...
Read MoreCall for Entries: Iranian Proverbs
5th Color organizes Iranian Sayings, The Third Iranian Typography Exhibition 2006. It will be held at the Tehran Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran on June 8–21, 2006. Call for entries link
RIP Richard Eckersley
“Good design is the process of solving the problem posed by the manuscript.” —Richard Eckersley Richard Eckersley, an award-winning graphic designer who introduced unconventional typography to staid-looking university-press books, died on Sunday at his home in Lincoln, Neb. He was 65. — New York Times
Monotype Clones Frutiger For Microsoft
Microsoft will be using a font named Segoe UI, for their new Vista operating system. Agfa Monotype created Segoe UI for Microsoft. Agfa Monotype claims to have designed it, but it’s actually a copy with minor modifications of Linotype’s Frutiger Next font. In January 2004 Microsoft applied to register multiple...
Read MoreThumb-speak Short-hand
We’re seeing an evolution of communications where written and spoken dialog are merging into some strange sort of thumb-speak shorthand. Link: Internet Linguistics
Ligatures
A ligature is a character consisting of one or more connecting letters. As in the graphic above, sauerstoffflaschen—the German word for oxygen tank—is the only word to contain the “fffl” ligature. It also contains the decorative “st” ligature. Below are examples of standard and decorative ligatures. Letter pairs with their...
Read MoreUse of the ampersand & and
When is it appropriate to use an ampersand “&” instead of the word “and”?
Type Radio
From Underware comes Type Radio. Type Radio has MP3 radio streams and Podcast downloads on topics of typography and design from Matthew Carter et al. (Link via Laurie Forehand)
The Double-Space Debate
So, what’s your opinion? A, B, or C? [A] Two spaces after a period is the proper way to set type. [B] With the white space above the point, one space after a period is all that’s needed. [C] The physical space after a period should be thinner to...
Read MoreDANISH – framing the future of design
Just opening at the Dansk Design Center in Copenhagen, “DANISH – framing the future of design” will be showing from 22 Jun 2005 — 13 Nov 2005. Exhibitions at the DDC are always inspiring.
Daily Type
Very nice. So, how long can they keep it up? “Daily Type is a creative project run by four russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine.”
One Plus Beirut by Stephen Banham
At 1+1=3, Stephen Banham creates a photo album of his trip to Typo.Graphic.Beirut 2005.
Typophile Beta
The new Typophile website contains a “typowiki”. The Typophile Wiki is a “user-created encyclopedia of all things type-related. Users create and edit Wiki entries with the aim of becoming a collaborative, useful and relevant resource.”
Copenhagen International Furniture fair
My favorite stop for all things design, Copenhagen is holding the Copenhagen International Furniture Fair at the Bella Center from the 19 — 22 May 2005. Among some of the exhibitors are Bang & Olufsen A/S, Boli Company Limited, Cube Design A/S, Habitat and WHERE2GO.
Typo.Graphic.Beirut 2005
Typo.Graphic.Beirut 2005 is the first of its kind within the Middle East’s graphic design community, and will feature more than 20 speakers contributing to an atmosphere of design thought and practice from regions all over the world.
Read Regular
Designed to assist dyslexic readers, Read Regular is a typeface designed by Dutch designer Natascha Frensch. Letterforms like b and d are typically drawn as the same character and then just swapped. Read Regular differentiates these forms by making each unique.
BLU DOT Desktop Clock
From Blu Dot comes a desktop clock that displays the time with pics of found type.
Airline Bag Lounge
Browse a nice collection of vintage airline tote bags at Troyland’s Airline Bag Lounge.
Simply Maeda
“The more you know about something beforehand,the simpler it will ultimately be perceived.“John Maeda has a corner on the Simplicity market.Photo by John Maeda
Save the French Imprimerie Nationale heritage
Graphê, association pour la promotion de l’art typographique is petitioning to preserve the heritage of the French government printing organization.