Joan and Erik Spiekermann’s foundry Fontshop has a very nice collection of typographic education resources available to download for free.
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Ed Nacional
Ed manages to find that golden midway: minimalist yet richly detailed, subtle yet bold, monochrome and colourful.
The flipside of old New York Times photos
The New York Times recently launched a Tumblr to share old pictures from their newsroom archive. More exciting than the photos themselves, is the history recorded on the back of each picture.
Chicks & types
What could be more exciting than receiving a mystery package from overseas? Well, I was lucky enough to find one in my mailbox this week, all the way from Florence, Italy…
Hand drawn 2012 calendar
Singapore based agency Relay Room made this calendar. Just looking at it makes my wrist hurt!
Chinese water calligraphy tricycle
No, you didn’t misread the title, it is as weird as it sounds. Nicholas Hanna built a tricycle that “prints” Chinese characters on the sidewalk as he rides along…
Fast Company’s fantastic new fonts
In September 2011 Fast Company introduced three new typefaces to their print publication. Kaiser, Zizou Sans and Zizou Slab were all commissioned as part of a design overhaul.
Vintage Polish packaging
Ok, this is about as random as it gets, but here are a few examples of vintage Polish packaging in the following categories: chocolate and soap…
Snooping web fonts made easy
Sure, you can find out all you need to know about fonts on a web page by inspecting the code with Firebug or the likes, but the WhatFont bookmarklet makes font snooping super easy.
Friday find: The Grapho-Scope and other forgotten art supplies
Whether you are old enough to have used a Grapho-Scope, or whether your first introduction to design was Adobe CS5, check out the online Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies curated by Lou Brooks…
Modern hand lettering of India
Two interesting type-related snippets came across my desk this week, both from India: hand drawn movie posters from Bangalore and digital fonts created from the lettering of street painters in Delhi…
Good Google web fonts
Having trouble finding the best Google web fonts for your next website design? Chad Mazzola wants to help you out…
Vintage Kodak packaging
Last night I saw an awesome movie called Super 8 which inspired me to find this old film and camera packaging.
Mysterious calligraphic album from the 1620s
These beautifully ornate calligraphic letterforms form part of an album entitled “Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen” (calligraphic writing styles) produced by Johann Hering of Bavaria, Germany in the 1620s. Were they intended for educational use or simply practice sheets from Hering’s personal collection? According to BiblyOdyssey, there is … Read More →
Friday find: Nice Type videos
Look, a channel on Vimeo dedicated to typographic videos! And did you know there are such things as pre-animated typefaces? I learn something new every day…
Cool title screens: The Master Cleanse
Some clever title screen lettering by Erik Marinovich perfectly captures the mood of this short film.
Telegramme Studio
London based collaborative studio Telegramme has a nice eclectic mix of posters, signs and illustration work in their portfolio…
Rainy Day identity
I enjoy this rather literal identity for Rainy Day designed by Toko, a Dutch studio Based in Sydney, Australia. The result is, as they put it, “almost too obvious but too good to ignore”.
Friday find: Book cover graphics
Julian Montague of Buffalo, New York started documenting interesting book covers from his collection in February 2009. Three years later (and over 1000 covers later) he is still at it…
Nice site: Cast Iron Design Company
Cast Iron Design Company has not forgotten the reason we designers got all excited about the prospect of web fonts in the first place: the ability to use real fonts for typographic design instead of replacing text with images…
The beauty of beer
A blog focusing purely on graphic design in the world of beer? I have to admit, I had no idea how much design gets consumed by beer until now!
IBM Film Ribbons by Paul Rand
A striking example of Paul Rand’s packaging design work for IBM from the 1960s.
Friday find: Bottle caps
I have always thought of bottle caps as an interesting little canvas and wondered how much attention actually goes into their design, but I had no idea that a passionate community of collectors exists…
Vintage punk rock flyers get swissted
Hey, remember when Jack Black and Mos Def sweded VHS movies in Be Kind Rewind? Well, Swissted is kind of like that, only with punk gig flyers…
Web Typography for the Lonely
Web Typography for the Lonely is an ongoing collection of experiments and writings on, you guessed it, web type. Each entry features a demo and write-up explaining how the result was achieved.
New Year’s resolutions
To Resolve Project is a good looking collection of New Year’s resolutions by various artists and designers in the form of downloadable wallpapers.
100th post and 2011 sign-off
This is Typedeck’s 100th post since launching in June this year – a great milestone and a good time to sign off for 2011. Thanks for all the support and positive feedback so far!
Friday find: Jaunā Gaita magazine covers
Jaunā Gaita is a Latvian language magazine which has been published since the 1950s. Here are a few of their beautiful experimental covers from the past.
Free fonts from Fontfabric
Fontfabric has some really nice fonts on offer and many of them are available free of charge! Here are a few you might be interested in adding to your collection…
Vintage matchboxes from around the world
A look at the matchboxes of old, adorned with images of battle and grandeur. Oh and some toothpick boxes too.
Friday find: Gig flyer
Gig flyers have always been a playground for design experimentation, but they are usually not very representative of great typography. I think this one is a step up and I’ll tell you why…
The typographic allure of analogue control panels
In this age of touch screen interaction I think our senses are left underwhelmed by tapping and swiping and we often experience a yearning for the tactile response of dials buttons and gauges…
Edgeboard identity
Hampus Jageland, a Swedish designer based in Paris, designed this simple and clever identity for Edgeboard – an equally simple and clever product…
Little Printer – your personal mini newspaper machine!
You remember a while back I wrote about how London based design agency BERG redesigned the common sales receipt? Well, guess what, that was really just a sneak preview of what BERG has really been working on for the past year…
Lucha Libre letterpress posters from Mexico City
Hans Gremmen of Amsterdam procured this great set of Lucha Libre posters from a letterpress print shop in Mexico City in 2009. Hard to believe that an outdated printing technique can trump the efficiency of digital production in the 21st century. Here’s the proof…
Friday find: Scandinavian logos from the 1960s & 70s
Great collection of beautifully scanned logos originating in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 70s.
Trent Walton pushes the boundaries of web type
I like Trent Walton’s blog. He is clearly a thinker, but more importantly, he is also a doer. Based in Texas, Trent designs a unique look for each of his blog posts and demonstrates the exciting possibilities of what can be achieved in web typography … Read More →
50 USA state mottos & 10,000 Minnesota lake logos
I recently happened upon two interesting projects sharing several similarities; both are about geographic regions in the USA, both are typographically executed and both are rather ambitious…
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Bloomberg Businessglitch
Glitches are described as “sudden, usually temporary malfunctions or irregularities of equipment” and have been embraced and turned into art, both musically and visually, for at least the last two decades or so. What is it that lends such an aesthetically pleasing quality to electronic error?