Blog: Typography

21 October 2011

Less is more

Less is more

the post room

Dutch Design Week’s unfolding flyer; and Hyphen Press’s slim A6 catalogue
Editorial offices are swamped with promotional materials of all kinds: press releases, flyers, bloated brochures…

18 October 2011

Type Tuesday: Private Eye

Type Tuesday: Private Eye

john l. walters, type tuesday

Matthew Carter’s timeless typographic masthead for Private Eye magazine
Tony Rushton has been art director of satirical magazine Private Eye for 49 of its…

17 October 2011

Noted #15

Noted #15

noted

Lettering, Film noir, forgotten kerning, public poetry and PlayType
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

14 October 2011

Gag pile

Gag pile

Gordon Young’s Blackpool Comedy Carpet with Why Not Associates

The Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on a vast scale, hewn in concrete and granite across Blackpool’s seafront.

12 October 2011

Significant others

Significant others

anne-marie conway

Steven Heller invites designers to come clean about their graphic passions
Steven Heller loves design, but he’s quick to admit it’s ‘not a monogamous relationship’, writes…

11 October 2011

Red top

Red top

alexander ecob

The Independent gets a ‘friendly’ facelift for its quarter century
The Independent’s fourth redesign in three years greeted readers of the UK daily this morning…

11 October 2011

Type Tuesday: Neon skeletons

Type Tuesday: Neon skeletons

type tuesday

A pop-up showroom explores the possibilities of a new typeface
Commercial Type is an award-winning type foundry with typefaces used around the world. Their latest…

10 October 2011

Noted #14

Noted #14

noted

Powerful graphics, Alexey Brodovitch and underground newspapers
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

7 October 2011

Design for drugs in NYC

Design for drugs in NYC

Exhibition will explore the graphic world of pharmaceutical products
A new exhibition at The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union will explore…

4 October 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability #5: Elettriche, an exercise in modularity
The Berlin-based Italian designer Alessio Leonardi is known for his whimsical cartoons and hand-drawn typefaces…
 
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