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Roadliners

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

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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…”

Fonts of the Homeless

Type­faces based on the hand­writ­ing of home­less peo­ple in Barcelona. All pro­ceeds go to the Arrels Foun­da­tion, an orga­ni­za­tion for the ben­e­fit of Barcelona’s home­less.

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Brazilian Movie Posters

Poster for God and the Dev­il in the Land of the Sun, 1964 I tru­ly love movies and movie posters. Cur­rent­ly Brazil­ian film is expe­ri­enc­ing a kind of renais­sance, but it was not always this way. In this post I’d like to share a series of posters for Brazil­ian cin­e­ma,...

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The Blue Lady’s New Look

From JKR, the Cam­den based pack­ag­ing design agency, comes an intrigu­ing col­lec­tion of mar­ket­ing and brand­ing quips titled “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Oth­er Curiosi­ties: Posts from the Cross­roads of Design and Mar­ket­ing.”

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My New Favorite Maps

These typo­graph­ic maps are the real deal. Although typo­graph­ic maps are not a new idea, few are cre­at­ed man­u­al­ly. Even few­er pos­sess the degree of qual­i­ty seen here.

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Bracket

“Brack­et is a con­ceived as a pub­li­ca­tion that fea­tures every­thing in between — ideas, voic­es and process­es that are over­looked and under-appre­ci­at­ed.”

Refracted Alphabet

“A fol­low up refrac­tion exper­i­ment fea­tur­ing the Alpha­bet spo­ken by the late GREAT Richard Pry­or. Mixed with Block­head­’s ‘Col­or­ing­book’.”

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Clipper Ship Cards

These vin­tage clip­per cards were adver­tise­ments for ship­ping voy­ages, usu­al­ly from a port on the east coast (New York, Boston) to the west coast (San Fran­cis­co). They were dis­trib­uted by ship dis­patch­ers in the 1800s.

5 Year Datebook

“Black cov­ered cov­er. Remov­able trans­par­ent plas­tic pro­tec­tive case. A two-page spread for each week. Dai­ly sched­ule from 8am to 10pm.”

Reinventing the Camera Strap

“Cam­era slings aren’t new, they’ve just got­ten pop­u­lar in recent years. When we set out to make the Loop, we chal­lenged our­selves to sur­pass every aspect of exist­ing cam­era slings and make some­thing bet­ter…”

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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...

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Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk

Tim­o­thy Oul­ton’s May­fair Steam­er Sec­re­tary Trunk opens into a full-fea­tured sec­re­tary equipped with a pull-down desk­top, mul­ti­ple draw­ers, cub­bies, wire man­age­ment, and book­shelves.

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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....

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A Battle of Wills

“A response to the 2010 Inter­na­tion­al Soci­ety of Typo­graph­ic Design­ers’ ‘Imbal­ance’ brief. A Bat­tle of Wills explores ten­sions between the gov­ern­ment and British cit­i­zens. The book was award­ed a mer­it and also is short­list­ed for the British Book Design & Pro­duc­tion Awards 2010.”

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8 Faces by Elliot Jay Stocks

“Print­ed on heavy stock, with a foil-blocked cov­er, and pressed at just 2500 lim­it­ed edi­tions, each issue is a true collector’s item. 8 Faces will be more at home on your book­shelf than in your mag­a­zine rack. Who said print is dead?”

Type Desk Welcomes Yoko Sakao Ohama

Yoko joins Type Desk to report from New York on design and log­i­cal process. Log­i­cal as apposed to illog­i­cal. Hav­ing worked with Yoko, I guar­an­tee it’s a priv­i­lege to expe­ri­ence Yoko’s “log­i­cal process.” Wel­come aboard Yoko!

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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:...

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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...

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Hand Drawn Type

Most peo­ple are sur­prised to find how much type isn’t set with fonts on the com­put­er but hand drawn. This is usu­al­ly the case with most old signs and bill­boards, made when type did­n’t exist or just was­n’t eas­i­ly acces­si­ble. Typog­ra­phy Served has post­ed a few nice exam­ples of...

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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...

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Your copy/paste activities will be tracked

“If you’re a pub­lish­er, you want to know what your read­ers are most inter­est­ed in–that way you can bet­ter tar­get edi­to­r­i­al and keep read­ers com­ing back. Until now, most pub­lish­ers have relied on track­ing whole pages to dis­cern their read­ers’ pri­or­i­ties. But a tool from a com­pa­ny called Tynt,...

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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...

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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...

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Businesspeople Need to Become Designers

“Roger Mar­tin, Dean of the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, tells us how busi­ness­peo­ple need to become designers–designing user expe­ri­ences and busi­ness models–to cre­ate some­thing new and fan­tas­tic, and not just ana­lyze the past.”

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...

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Copenhagen Wall Calendar by Urbncal

“urb­n­Cal 2011 Copen­hagen has a graph­ic look with black and white pho­tographs and red colour (pms 206) in twelve dif­fer­ent shades. The cal­en­dar is pho­tographed in dif­fer­ent areas of Copen­hagen, one area per month, start­ing from the cen­ter and out in a clock­wise motion.”

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A 2011 Calendar with Rhythm by NEWWORK

“By com­pos­ing dates as music notes, sim­ply hop­ing the cal­en­dar could give view­ers a smile in 2011. The cal­en­dar is silk screened on large ( 26″ x 40″) and thick weight stone henge paper which is very gor­geous.” Avail­able for $48 from NEWWORK. Via Selec­tism

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Nice Job, Robb—The “the” Project

“Word­marks from a pri­vate stock of predig­i­tal let­ter­ing scoured from low res­o­lu­tion archives, per­son­al­ly con­vert­ed to bezi­er out­lines by Robb for use by today’s graph­ic design­ers who appre­ci­ate the wonky shapes of yes­ter­year.”

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Colophon’s Aperçu

Brighton based design­ers Antho­ny Sheret and Edd Har­ring­ton have recent­ly launched their spec­i­men cat­a­logue to accom­pa­ny the release of Aperçu, the lat­est font to come out of their font foundry, Colophon.

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