Jim Rimmer died last week and I really wasn’t sure I wanted to post anything online after writing a tribute post for my recently deceased friend Leo Obstbaum. Losing people takes the wind right out of your sails. Then I found the f [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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Big news in the web world as Typekit was launched last week. For those of you who missed news of the launch, it serves to bridge the copyright issues associated with the CSS3 Property @font-face (hotly debated issue among foundries and d [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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Ever used the WhatTheFont website to determine what a font is? You see a picture and just NEED to know what that obscure font is. Well what happens if you’re out and about and see one on a restaurant menu, or an ad on the bus? Well [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Categories: Design, Fun, Interactive | 2 Comments »
It’s like Communication Design class all over again. Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign. The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Cold [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Music, Typography | No Comments »
Dutch design firm SPRANQ has developed a new typeface that incorporates their concern for the environment. Ecofont is a typeface similar in look to Vera Sans, but resembles Swiss cheese in its makeup. The aerated font uses 20% less ink to [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Categories: Design, Pop Culture, Sustainability, Typography | No Comments »
Here’s a little treat for users who spend hours finding just the right typeface. Flipping Typical is magical. An online tool that give you the ability to enter a word or phrase and view the different variations using fonts in you [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Thursday, January 8th, 2009
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I love books — beautiful books not the ones with shabby covers. I must admit that sometimes I buy a book for its cover rather than for its content. I don’t lend my books easily, they look too cool on my shelves. And I love Peng [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, December 12th, 2008
Categories: Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Printing | 1 Comment »
Buenos Aires isn’t the first place I think of when I consider type foundries, but Studipos has some brilliant fonts. Check em out.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008
Categories: Design, Typography, Websites | 2 Comments »
This comes from vaults of something I thought I shared a few weeks ago, but it must have slipped through the cracks. Check out this piece on ABC news taking a look at the fonts used by the “remaining” US Presidential Candidates [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
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First off, congrats to Firefox for a smashingly successful launch of Firefox 3. Almost 30 million downloads worldwide (as displayed on the cool map on SpreadFirefox.com which itself is good overview of a savy web audience worldwide). Apa [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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