Saturday, 4:12pm
1 October 2011

Noted #13

Numerals, French alphabets and Chinese posters online

More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past week or so.

100 Alphabets publicitaires
A Flickr set of a book of French advertising alphabets from 1949 (below).

Figuring out numerals
Fontfeed compile and update some previous posts to make this informative piece about numerals.

Vignelli goes digital
A New Yorker piece about the digital resurrection of the Vignelli subway map.

Chinese posters
An online archive of Chinese posters from 1925 to the present day, (see top, 1951).

Unify, simplify, amplify
Ken Carbone looks at Taschen books on FastCo.

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