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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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The Curious Misconception Surrounding Sentence Spacing →There’s a widespread misconception that “proper” English requires two word spaces after a sentence. |
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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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Doyald Young, Logotype Designer, 1926–2011 →A tribute to the late Doyald Young. |
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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. |
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Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition →In 1906, a small university press in Chicago published its standardized typographical practices. |
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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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A Poster for São Paulo →Celebrating the 457th anniversary of São Paulo, the designer Paulo Moretto, along with Alécio Rossi created the exhibit “A Poster for São Paulo”. |
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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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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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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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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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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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A Magazine Designer’s Guide to Designing Magazines →Every shipment of Stack America comes with an exclusive magazine-themed print. |
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