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!
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.”
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.
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…)
The typographic work of Alex Fowkes for Sony Music
Alex Fowkes designed this great mural of Sony Music’s history, illustrated with mostly type.
The British Library’s 60,000-Book iPad App
Charleston, SC & London, UK – BiblioLabs, LLC and the British Library are proud to announce their British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App for iPad is now available on the App Store.
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,...
Read MoreThe 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.”
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.
All the Buildings in New York
James Gulliver Hancock attempts to draw all of the buildings in New York City.
The Moleskine Debossing Process
A charming video showing the process behind custom debossed Moleskines.
Japanese Chocolate Type
On a recent trip to Japan, I found some neat type specimens in the candy aisle at the local supermarket.
Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico (1818) is Online
A copy of Giambattista Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico has been photographed and posted by the Rare Book Room.
Monocle Alpino, Anti-iPad Device
Monocle’s Alpino newspaper may be called an experiment, but it’s a successful extension to the Monocle brand—a great variation on a theme.
LH Line1 Sans, Opensource Free Font by Lufthamn Studio
Lufthamn Studio’s opensource (free) sans serif typeface.
Eastern European Matchbox Labels
Mid-century mass production printing on cardboard has a unique look that’s emulated quite a bit these days.
Jan Tschichold for Penguin Scores, 1949
Oliver Tomas has posted some nice mid-century visual inspiration with his Penguin Book Covers Flickr Collection.
Sensaway by Áron Jancsó
It’s rare to see a typeface with such confidence, perhaps in itself and in the reader.
A Magazine Designer’s Guide to Designing Magazines
Every shipment of Stack America comes with an exclusive magazine-themed print.
Best Alternative to Helvetica
Font Shop just released a Best Fonts of 2010 list where Bruno Maag’s Aktiv Grotesk is coined the “Best Alternative for Helvetica.”
On Maps Made of Words and Automated Design
Aegir Hallmunder on typographic maps and wether automated design is good or bad.
ZEITtype for Die Zeit by Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy
Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy created this stout white-line blackletter of all caps for Germany’s weekly paper Die Zeit.
Bracket
“Bracket is a conceived as a publication that features everything in between — ideas, voices and processes that are overlooked and under-appreciated.”
1140px Grid System
A 1140px-wide, 12 column grid system that breaks down elegantly with smaller browser sizes.
Refracted Alphabet
“A follow up refraction experiment featuring the Alphabet spoken by the late GREAT Richard Pryor. Mixed with Blockhead’s ‘Coloringbook’.”
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…”
MyFonts’ Creative Characters by Jan Middendorp
Landing on my desk is this great compilation of type designer interviews done by Jan Middendorp for MyFonts entitled Creative Characters.
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...
Read MoreMayfair 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.
John’s Phone: The Anti-Smart Phone
If you’re beginning to think that your phone is getting too smart for your own good, then John’s phone might be for you.
Bill Moggridge is awarded the Prince Philip Designer Prize for the GRiD Compass
Bill Moggridge designed the first clamshell computer in 1982 for GRiD Systems in California. 28 years later, he’s been awarded the Design Council’s Prince Philip Designer Prize.
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.”
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?”
Labels from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Packaging and labels from the 18 and 1900s, for everything from mucilage to vinagre balsamique.
Erik Spiekermann on Deutsche Welle TV
On the heels of having won the Federal German Design Prize 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the German Design Council, Erik Spiekermann is interviewed by Deutsche Welle TV.
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!
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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Making Grids with Sigurður Ármannsson’s Easy Grid Calculator
Sigurður Ármannsson explains how to use his Easy Grid Calculator to produce square document grid units based on leading.
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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Crumpled City Map by Emanuele Pizzolorusso
“It just takes 2 seconds to open and close this innovative soft map.”
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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreYour 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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Bags from the Past: the Airline Bag Lounge
This is a little old, but it’s still good: the Airline Bag Lounge brought to you by Troyland.
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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Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries over 200 Years in 4 Minutes
Hans Rosling on BBC Four’s “The Joy of Stats”
Ordering Disorder, Grid Principles for Web Design
This is definitely on my list. Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design (Voices That Matter) by Khoi Vinh
Morgan Press Wood Type Specimen
Morgan Press printers and typographers Design: John Alcorn Author: Morgan Press Published: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Morgan Press, [1964?]
CNN en Español Gets a Tilde
Having done work at CNN and other Turner properties, this excellent new ID for CNN en Español jumped out for us. It’s close to home for those in Atlanta.
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Unmakeable Book
“Book printers said the award winning author’s design “could not be made.” Belgian publishing house Die Keure proved them wrong.”
Flowers + Newsprint, Beautiful
“Fresh Flowers is a collection of flowers, it’s a different newspaper, it’s a way of having flowers on your table everyday.”
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.”
Mafra Display by Pedro Leal
Mafra was published by dstype in 2010. Soon to be available at MyFonts and other places.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Paper Sack
The invention and improvement of the modern paper bag, because who doesn’t like a good paper sack?
Prison Tattoos of Danzig Baldaev
Rick Poynor on the Russian prison tattoo flash art of Danzig Baldaev on show in London along with photographs of tattooed prisoners by Sergei Vasiliev.
The Ames Lettering Contraption
“Oh, bedeviling Ames Guide! How curious your strange shape, your myriad holes filled with murk and mystery. What–what??–are you for??”
Graphic Design and Your Soul
Dan Reynolds’ review of the second edition of Adrian Shaughnessy‘s How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul.
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
Paris vs New York, A Graphic Tally
“A visual but friendly match between those two cities seen by a lover of Paris wandering through New York’s infinite details, clichés and contradictions”
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.”
Lomography Sprocket Rocket
Forget full-frame censors. Images from the Sprocket Rocket include the film gears.
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.
Are you a … Type Snob!?
Type Snob, call for entries. To earn this distinguished title submit your work in this year’s Type Directors Club competitions.
Leica M9 ‘Titanium’ Designed By Walter De’silva
Selectism: Leica M9 ‘Titanium’ Designed By Walter De’silva
Selfridges Tea Packaging by Noreen Khan & Lewis Moberly
Selfridges Tea Packaging by Noreen Khan & Lewis Moberly (at Lovely Package)