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November 21, 2008
Mark Boulton’s Practical Guide to Designing for the Web •
If you put words on Web pages, this book goes on your wish list, period. Shipping in PDF in February 2009.
November 20, 2008
Spy Type •
Hand-designed type from the latest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.
November 14, 2008
Postage Stamps by Type Designers •
Frutiger, Spiekermann and other typography legends exhibit their skill on the small canvas of the postage stamp.
October 30, 2008
Finds from the NYPL •
Inspiring typography unearthed from the collections of the New York Public Library by Hoefler & Frere Jones.
Pentagram Designs 100% Design •
Pentagram designs the identity and brand structure for 100% Design, an international series of architecture and design showcases, featuring tightly-executed geometric sans-serif typography.
October 21, 2008
Garamond Powerline •
Elements of the power infrastructure converge in silhouette to form this remake of the 16th century classic typeface.
October 10, 2008
National Theatre Posters •
Vast collection of posters from the National Theatre’s archives (via Coudal). The ebb and flow between illustration and photography is great as well as decoding the sometimes tangential relationship between poster and plot.
October 3, 2008
Thirty Fonts that All Designers Must Own •
Thirty fonts for every designer’s arsenal from Jacob Cass at Just Creative Design.
October 1, 2008
Anatomical Typography •
To start off October, graphic designer Bjorn Johansson‘s artistic-if-not-eerily-macabre play on the typographic anatomy of letterforms.
CNN Returns Historic Poster Maker to Spotlight •
CNN hired legendary letterpress shop Hatch Show Print to design and print promotional materials for the upcoming debate, because you can’t beat the real thing. Awesome.
Facebuster •
Extra-chunky block serif font from Silas Dilworth.
September 15, 2008
Typewriter Ribbon Tin Collection •
Incredible collection of typography found on typewriter ribbon tins.
August 28, 2008
Alphabet Trucks •
Eric Tabuchi brings new meaning to the road-trip-classic alphabet game with his poster of 26 typographic scenes of semi-trailers on the road.
August 1, 2008
Boulton on Signage •
Mark Boulton turns his 20/20 typographic vision to the art of sign design. His advice: don’t screw with conventions.
January 11, 2008
24 Ways: Boulton on Typsetting Tables •
24 ways continues their web design-themed advent celebration with Mark Boulton’s introduction to the proper use of typography for tabular information.
HTML Entities •
Where to find how you make those fancy symbols in HTML, because I never remember
December 30, 2006
How to: Photorealistic Font Perspective •
FontShop demonstrates how to create a photorealistic type illustration with this Adobe Illustrator tutorial.