Blog: Typography

6 December 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

alexander ecob, type tuesday

Stevens Titling from Linotype offers an unexpected brush with wildlife
Typefaces that strive to emulate the idiosyncrasies of hand-crafted letterforms have a patchy success rate…

2 December 2011

The Sheffield connection

The Sheffield connection

eye editors

Discovering a diaspora of former TDR designers in Eye 81’s ‘The far side’
A reader has pointed out an unintended pattern in the latest issue of Eye magazine…

30 November 2011

Noted #21

Noted #21

noted

Hebrew letters, famine posters, IBM typewriter ads and early mag covers
Here are some links to sites that grabbed our attention this week. Hebrew typography A…

29 November 2011

Murder most typographical

Murder most typographical

alexander ecob, type tuesday

Edward McKnight Kauffer’s titles for Hitchcock’s silent thriller The Lodger
For all the critical attention Edward McKnight Kauffer attracts (including our preview and review of…

22 November 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

alexander ecob, type tuesday

Promo or primer? Nokia’s pure approach to a type specimen
Nokia Pure – the new corporate typeface designed by Bruno Maag (below) for the Finnish…

21 November 2011

Noted #20

Noted #20

noted

Rian Hughes, CSA, SHOP mag, Back to the Future and a V&A Late with Eye
Here are some links to sites that grabbed our attention and a few forthcoming events…

15 November 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

alexander ecob, type tuesday

Monotype Grotesque, guest typeface in the new issue of Eye
Every new issue of Eye (since the redesign of Summer 2009) features different ‘guest’ typefaces…

11 November 2011

Noted #19

Noted #19

noted

Rudi Ruegg, infographics, Monopoly and webfonts
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

9 November 2011

Why we ♥ St Bride

Why we ♥ St Bride

becky chilcott, ben weiner, rob banham

Reasons for loving London’s printing and graphics library
In anticipation of ‘Critical Tensions’, the St Bride annual conference taking place tomorrow and Friday…

8 November 2011

Type Tuesday: play on words

Type Tuesday: play on words

john ridpath

Monotype opens up three typefaces to artists
Creative social enterprise space Mill Co. has collaborated with Monotype for their second annual exhibition…
 
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