Today's Obsession: TypeDNA
Type management and font pairings, two things I’ve always been particularly bad at, become less of a nightmare with a new concept in type management from a product called TypeDNA. The application is...
View ArticleMy 10 Best (and One Worst) Design Items of the Half-Year
Page from The Black Incal (L'Incal Noir), Moebius, 1981.My editor told me, "Everyone likes an end-of-year list, right?" Well, I don't. But this one's for you, James. Happy 2011!These date back to early...
View ArticleHÖfðaletur and Other Icelandic Fonts You Can't Pronounce
Iceland's version of a design week, DesignMarch, took place in Reykjavík over the weekend. The festival included the entire spectrum of Icelandic design, ranging from a new menswear collection made of...
View ArticleToday's Obsession: OpenType Primer
Over at I Love Typography, Nick Shinn’s posted a refreshingly clear introduction to OpenType typography’s most essential building block, the alternate character. It’s probably been covered several...
View ArticleUpdates from Adobe, Errors from Apple
Detail of Muse's working screen.Couple of quick things today. Firstly, Adobe’s released beta version 3 of Muse, their site builder for designers. The download is here, and as stated previously, it’s...
View ArticleMichael Harvey's Life of Letters
I have known Michael Harvey, the British book jacket designer / lettercutter / type designer, for nearly thirty years. And I have known his work for far longer, having first discovered it in Erik...
View ArticleThe Fuse Box: Faces of a Typographic Revolution
It's 1994 and Steve Heller is on a rant about a Fuse magazine font called LushUS. It's "an abominable typeface. It's…""… vernacular carried to an extreme?," I offer."Vernacular carried to stupidity,"...
View ArticleEric Gill, Australian Mad Men, and the Ultimate Books on Typography and Printing
Paul Soady doesn't care that Eric Gill had sex with his sister, his daughters, and his family dog. He's simply in love with the art and typography of this controversial artist, writer, and designer of...
View ArticleHand Drawn Design from Cover to Cover
In 1927, Samuel Welo published his first edition of "Studio Handbook: Letter And Design For Artists And Advertisers." But this collection of fonts, ornaments, logos and other ad elements was not only...
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