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LH Line1 Sans, Opensource Free Font by Lufthamn Studio →Lufthamn Studio’s opensource (free) sans serif typeface. |
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Lego Letterpress →A hand-built pixel art printing letterpress from Physical Fiction. |
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Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli →Hands down, Hyphen Press has the best typeset and thoughtfully bound books on type. |
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032c Magazine →“032C started of as a complete DIY project. It was a zine that we ran out of a project space that I had here in Mitte, in Berlin, with two other friends…” |
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Eastern European Matchbox Labels →Mid-century mass production printing on cardboard has a unique look that’s emulated quite a bit these days. |
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Isle of Tune →Isle of Tune is “a music sequencer for the modern colonial”… |
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Jan Tschichold for Penguin Scores, 1949 →Oliver Tomas has posted some nice mid-century visual inspiration with his Penguin Book Covers Flickr Collection. |
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Sensaway by Áron Jancsó →It’s rare to see a typeface with such confidence, perhaps in itself and in the reader. |
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Moleskine Extra Small Planners →“A new video by dutch artist Rogier Wieland illustrates the new Moleskine Extra Small Planners, Weekly and Daily.” |
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Epic Google Docs Animation →The idea of sitting through any Powerpoint/Keynote makes my eyes glaze over, but I must have watched this Google Doc presentation at least a dozen times. |
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A Magazine Designer’s Guide to Designing Magazines →Every shipment of Stack America comes with an exclusive magazine-themed print. |
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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.” |
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On Maps Made of Words and Automated Design →Aegir Hallmunder on typographic maps and wether automated design is good or bad. |
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Type In Print by Sergey Shapiro →Handlettered title made for a LiveJournal community dedicated to vintage books with “beautiful typography and calligraphy.” |
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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. |
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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.” |
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1140px Grid System →A 1140px-wide, 12 column grid system that breaks down elegantly with smaller browser sizes. |
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Brand for Flint Hair Salon by Bibliothèque →“The design solution expresses the Flint ideology of craftsmanship and modernity. Stone-age cutting tools made from Flint (a material found in abundance in the Norfolk area) illustrate this identity for a boutique hair-salon based in Norwich.” |
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BMW’s Retinal Branding →BMW flash projecting their logo into the eyes of an unwitting audience. |
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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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