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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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Beware of the Dogma →“Beware of the Dogma is a booklet for graphic designers wishing to reflect on and question notions of design as a discipline. It explores the theoretical nature of rules and obedience to them using extracts from an interview with a legal philosopher and the theories of Hart and Kemp. The aim of the book is to encourage designers to understand the goal a rule serves instead of dogmatically following certain rules of typography.” |
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A Battle of Wills →“A response to the 2010 International Society of Typographic Designers’ ‘Imbalance’ brief. A Battle of Wills explores tensions between the government and British citizens. The book was awarded a merit and also is shortlisted for the British Book Design & Production Awards 2010.” |
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Dala Floda by Paul Barnes →Dala Floda started out in 2005 as a headline typeface for Frieze Magazine. It has since grown and is now available as a full-featured family of 12 styles. |
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8 Faces by Elliot Jay Stocks →“Printed on heavy stock, with a foil-blocked cover, and pressed at just 2500 limited editions, each issue is a true collector’s item. 8 Faces will be more at home on your bookshelf than in your magazine rack. Who said print is dead?” |
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