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The New Typography

amuse-toi bien! | 7 days ago

On a recent trip overseas, I had a very short stopover in New York.  I immediately took this opportunity to head over to MOMA to see the Tim Burton, as well as The New Typography exhibitions. Unfortunately, MOMA on New Year’s day tends to beread more

Juicy Fruit: Cannibal

² Malevi4a | 12 days ago by Aleksej

Juicy Fruit: Cannibal There is a much juicier chew Advertising Agency: DDB Sydney, Australia Photographer: Jeremy Park Executive Creative Director: Matt Eastwood Creative Director: Mark Harricks Art Director: Simon Johnson Copywriter: Charlie read more

45 Creative Examples of Typography in the Wild

Stuffmaster Web Design Blog | 19 days ago by Vijay Joshi

For many ‘designers’ today, the ‘art of typography’ consists of picking a typeface – and, maybe if the audience is lucky, experimenting with leading, tracking, and kerning. That’s not to say that there aren’read more

Art from regular office paper

Parafovea | 19 days ago by Jasso

We spend our daily lives entombed in piles and piles of white A4 papers (or letter in the US). But what if you started to make art out of them? Danish artist Peter Callesen shows us that in good hands the wretched A4 can turn into something beautifulread more

[type] New Punctuation, The Sarcasm Mark. Ironically, There Alrea…

The ZehnKatzen Times | 28 days ago by Samuel John Klein

2295.Via Gawker, we find that an entrepreneur feels that our stock of punctuation isn't rich enough; they feel that we need a mark specifically created to mark a sentence as sarcastic; the SarcMark®:And, for $1.99, they'll sell you a bit of code desread more

Fancy and plain quotes

The Writing Rag | 1/08/10 by Rogers George

Word processors have advanced a lot since I started out in computing (a 64K Color Computer, on which I taught myself BASIC). When you type a quotation mark, the big word processors figure out which direction to make the curly quotes.  Text editors aread more

house numbers

Fancy Frills | 1/08/10 by Valerie Jar

Limited edition house numbers in stainless steel, created by ten typographers and graphic designers from different backgrounds and countries. They are available to buy at Medium. read more

What is a typogram?

Electric Ink | 1/08/10

First of all, I couldn't find this word on answers.com, but had a good reference from The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design (this book is a must have for any designer): When type is used to visually express an idea by something more than just tread more

Better Typography, Fewer Boxes Please

Idlemode // Perspectives on Mobile Device UI Design | 1/07/10 by Punchcut

A Call for more sensitivity to hierarchy, space, and scale in user interface design. Typographers have been organizing complex sets of information for hundreds of years. In that process they rarely rely on boxes to convey hierarchy and organization. read more

Around The World With The Bodoni Family

Design Fetish | 1/06/10 by Yasmine Zalek

Written by graphic designer Teresa Monachino and printed by The Society of Revisionist Typographers, the 60-page limited edition book "Around The World With The Bodoni Family" cleverly takes a look at the centuries-old font by associating lread more

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  • mokki

    mokki has updated his twitter:

    RT @dburka: Typographers and logo designers redesigning the Digg logo I did. Really cool! typophile.com/battle39 (Knight's is my ...
  • evoterra

    evoterra has updated his facebook:

    Evo It is impossible for me not to notice usage of comic sans and papyrus fonts. Having typographers for friends kinda sucks.
  • evoterra

    evoterra has updated his twitter:

    It is impossible for me not to notice usage of comic sans and papyrus fonts. Having typographers for friends kinda sucks.
  • designtribe

    designtribe has updated their twitter:

    Very, very geeky Typographers parody of Lady GaGa video - shar.es/aIltq
  • gonzodesign

    gonzodesign has updated his twitter:

    .. webfontspecimen.com/ - a handy (free) resource web designers and typographers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.
  • mokki

    mokki has updated his twitter:

    RT @dburka: Typographers and logo designers redesigning the Digg logo I did. Really cool! typophile.com/battle39 (Knight's is my ...
  • evoterra

    evoterra has updated his facebook:

    Evo It is impossible for me not to notice usage of comic sans and papyrus fonts. Having typographers for friends kinda sucks.
  • evoterra

    evoterra has updated his twitter:

    It is impossible for me not to notice usage of comic sans and papyrus fonts. Having typographers for friends kinda sucks.
  • designtribe

    designtribe has updated their twitter:

    Very, very geeky Typographers parody of Lady GaGa video - shar.es/aIltq
  • gonzodesign

    gonzodesign has updated his twitter:

    .. webfontspecimen.com/ - a handy (free) resource web designers and typographers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.