Blog: Typography

29 May 2012

Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts

Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts

john l. walters, type tuesday

This Emigre type specimen celebrates a lost era of LPs and recording studios
I once heard someone dismiss a former boyfriend with the put-down, ‘he’s the sort of…

22 May 2012

Type Tuesday – sticky Univers

Type Tuesday – sticky Univers

jane cheng, type tuesday

Jonas Etter’s transient sculptures leave a bittersweet aftertaste
In the 1960s and 70s, making art with words was a way to avoid having a…

15 May 2012

Type Tuesday: Between writing & type

Type Tuesday: Between writing & type

eric kindel, type tuesday

Stencils, stencil letters, tools and new fonts on display in Antwerp
The exhibition ‘Between Writing & Type: The Stencil Letter’, which opened in Antwerp on 1…

8 May 2012

Type Tuesday: space exploration

Type Tuesday: space exploration

gerry leonidas, type tuesday

Some reflections upon typography & layout (and why palettes are evil)
In ‘Lost in flatlands’ in Eye 80, as part of our special ‘20 years of change’…

1 May 2012

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

alex cameron

Tankard’s new type family Fenland questions the ‘calligraphic metaphor’
The launch party for Jeremy Tankard’s new type family Fenland, at London’s Kemistry Gallery, was packed…

24 April 2012

Signature typeface

Signature typeface

the type department

Gill Sans test proofs and original drawings from the Monotype archive
Here are some more examples of Eric Gill’s sketches for the Gill Sans family, courtesy of…

24 April 2012

#FontSunday … on #TypeTuesday

#FontSunday … on #TypeTuesday

The Design Museum’s Twitter contest has type geeks living for the weekend
Ah, Sunday. Day of sleeping in late, padding around the house in your jammies, and…

23 April 2012

Type Tuesday. Look this way

Type Tuesday. Look this way

the type department, type tuesday

‘Beauty in the making’ mixes paper, printing and a famous typeface
‘Beauty in the Making’ is a five-day show (ending Friday 27 April 2012), held in a…

17 April 2012

Type Tuesday: Set in stone

Type Tuesday: Set in stone

eric gillett

More boulder alphabets and love notes from Utah’s Great Basin desert
As mountain snows melt with the coming of spring, the desert begins to swallow the ephemeral…

13 April 2012

Noted #34

Noted #34

noted

Visualising city density, a magazine about Web design and magpie minds
Links and things … The world’s population, concentrated. ‘Viddy well’ – John Coulthart goes ‘Back in…
 
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