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)
The Bouroullec Brothers on their new book entitled "Works"
Donald Beekman & Albert-Jan Pool — FontCast #15
Aaron Draplin on Aaron Draplin
John Pawson’s Visual Inventory
Dusty Signs, Hand-lettered
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
Best Made Co. Founder Peter Buchanan-Smith on Starting a Business
Dieter Rams on The Culture Show
Javier Mariscal’s Advice for Young Designers
Sipho Mabona Origami
032c Magazine
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 Story of Eames Furniture
Erik Spiekermann on Deutsche Welle TV
Michael Bierut on Typography
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.”
Adrian Shaughnessy on his book “Graphic Design: A User’s Manual”
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….”
Colophon’s Aperçu
The Bantjes Covers
Alain de Botton at Herman Miller’s Lifework
Dieter Rams’s 10 Principles at Vitsœ
Werner Herzog Recommends Three DVDs
Matthew Carter on winning the 2010 MacArthur Genius Grant
John Pawson on Plain Space
The Curation Cure at IDEO Patterns
Paul Rand on Typography and Originality
An interview with Theo Rosendorf at Herman Miller’s Lifework Blog
US Tops Nation Brands Index
Unit Editions Makes Books for Designers
Rob Janoff on the Design of the Apple Logo
The Faces Behind Typeradio
Sol Sender on Obama Logo Design
Wim Crouwel Interview
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 starting in early 2007.
Kathryn Cho's Typecast
Kathryn Cho’s Typecast