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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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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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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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Clipper Ship Cards →These vintage clipper cards were advertisements for shipping voyages, usually from a port on the east coast (New York, Boston) to the west coast (San Francisco). They were distributed by ship dispatchers in the 1800s. |
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5 Year Datebook →“Black covered cover. Removable transparent plastic protective case. A two-page spread for each week. Daily schedule from 8am to 10pm.” |
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MyFonts’ Creative Characters by Jan Middendorp →Landing on my desk is this great compilation of type designer interviews done by Jan Middendorp for MyFonts entitled Creative Characters. |
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