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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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Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli →Hands down, Hyphen Press has the best typeset and thoughtfully bound books on type. |
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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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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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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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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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Seravek from Process Type Foundry →Process Type Foundry, creator of Klavika and Stratum, has added Seravek to their collection… |
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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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Spanish/English Augmented Reality Translation App for iPhone →An iPhone app that replaces text seen through the phone’s camera with a Spanish/English translation. |
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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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Reverting to Type →“It is New North Press’ great pleasure to invite you to our very own typographic extravaganza! Curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type will showcase the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world, contributions from three leading art colleges and the first eight in an ongoing series of prints with especially invited collaborators.” |
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The Evolution of the Letter A by Emma Quayle →New Zealand designer Emma Quayle’s project explores how the form of the alphabet is changing with modern technology, using the letter A as an example. |
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