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Calling All Gridniks

Anto­nio Caru­sone (AisleOne) along with Duane King (Think­ing for a Liv­ing) offer an excel­lent resource on the typo­graph­ic grid. Rid your post­mod­ern habits at The Grid Sys­tem.

Gepostet von Stani’s €5 Font

The Dutch Min­istry of Finance orga­nized an archi­tec­ture com­pe­ti­tion for which a select­ed group of archi­tec­tur­al offices and artists were invit­ed to design a 5 euro coin around the con­cept of “Nether­lands and Archi­tec­ture.” Gepostet von Stani’s win­ning design ren­ders the tra­di­tion­al por­trait of the queen with a list of...

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Gepostet von Stani’s €5 Font

The Dutch Min­istry of Finance orga­nized an archi­tec­ture com­pe­ti­tion for which a select­ed group of archi­tec­tur­al offices and artists were invit­ed to design a 5 euro coin around the con­cept of “Nether­lands and Archi­tec­ture.” Gepostet von Stani’s win­ning design ren­ders the tra­di­tion­al por­trait of the queen with a list of...

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Objectified

At a screen­ing of Hel­veti­ca in Atlanta, direc­tor Gary Hus­twit said if you want to meet peo­ple you admire, make a doc­u­men­tary about them. True words of wis­dom. Gary’s newest project is Objec­ti­fied, a doc­u­men­tary film on indus­tri­al design. It pre­mieres ear­ly 2009.

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.

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.

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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.

The 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.

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.

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:...

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Call 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...

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Thumb-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...

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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)

DANISH – 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.”

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.

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

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