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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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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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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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Chartwell by TK Type →TK Type has created a font that uses ligatures to make charts. |
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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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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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Traumgedanken →Traumgedanken is a book about a dream within a dream. |
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Living the Language with EF →I can’t stop watching these beautiful advertisements for EF (Education First) Language Schools. |
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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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Typographic Train Wrecks →You’re in a store searching for that perfect picture frame. You pick one up that looks good—a simple wood frame with just enough detail to complement your photo. |
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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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Japanese Chocolate Type →On a recent trip to Japan, I found some neat type specimens in the candy aisle at the local supermarket. |
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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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The Rio Olympics Logo: Spec Work? →The folks of Tátil Design, located in Rio de Janeiro, won a competition among 139 other agencies to design the Rio Olympics Logo. |
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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. |























