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Theo RosendorfTheo reports on design and typography from Atlanta. A designer of interactive and print media, Theo is Creative Director of Matador, a boutique agency with an acute focus on typography. He is author of “The Typographic Desk Reference (TDR),” a reference on the typographic forms of Latin-based writing systems. |
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Wanted: WordPress Ninjas →Well, it’s not one of those terribly urgent emergencies, but very slightly urgent nonetheless… |
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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. |
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Wanted: 25 Graphic Designers →We need 25 contract/freelance designers for a short project with Agfa. |
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Javier Mariscal’s Advice for Young Designers →Good advice for young designers from Javier Mariscal. “… make what you really want to do …” |
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Sipho Mabona Origami →“How long does an installation like the colored koi fish one take?” |
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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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John Fuller’s Sycamore Press →Ryan Roberts, purveyor of the official websites for Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, James Fenton, Hermione Lee, and Ian Hamilton, has authored “John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: a bibliographic history.” |
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Typography Deconstructed Letterpress Poster →From Drew Binkley comes the Typography Deconstructed Letterpress Poster, printed by Studio on Fire on 16″ x 24″ Crane Lettra Pearl paper. |
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Making Faces: Jim Rimmer (trailer) →“The film is excellent .….…. truly wonderful !!!!!!!!! (Jim Rimmer is) wonderfully charming and such an amount of detail to observe” — The Brothers Quay |
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Doyald Young, Logotype Designer, 1926–2011 →A tribute to the late Doyald Young. |
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John Rodker’s Ovid Press →Gerald W. Cloud, author of John Rodker’s Ovid Press: A Bibliographical History, is an investigator with a bent for narrative writing about books. |
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Vitsœ’s Campaign Against Planned Obsolescence →‘Outside there is what Dieter Rams would call an “impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Most people call this a sale.’ |
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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. |
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Typobasel’s Typostammtisch →For those of you in Basel, typo_basel is organizing its first typographic stammtisch (get together). |
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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. |
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Starbucks’ Smart Rebrand →Starbucks has put their mermaid on overtime. |
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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…” |
Type Desk is a curated journal of graphic communication featuring observations on design, typography, and the modern office. Type Desk is produced by Matador, the office of design consultant Theo Rosendorf.
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