We’d need another book, of course, to do this justice. And where would one start?
Fonts are like cars on the street--we notice only the most beautiful or ugly, the funniest or the flashiest. The vast majority roll on regardless. ...READ»
Normal office workers have fun with photocopiers by mashing naked body parts onto them. Apparently, designers do, too. But in José Ernesto Rodriguez's case, the result was a beautiful typeface, not a firing offense. Rodriguez ...READ»
Type design is traditionally the province of the uber-anal. The constraints for creating legible letterforms from scratch are very, very strict. Until, sometimes, they aren't -- as in the case of Ruslan Khasanov, who was cleaning an ...READ»
When KV "Pops" Sridhar, national creative director of Leo Burnett India, wanted to capture the graphic essence of Gandhi in a commemorative typeface for the 141st anniversary of his birth, the choice was clear: go with the glasses. ...READ»
It's ironic that in an age where almost all design happens on computers, some of the best designers are getting their hands dirty, fashioning typefaces out of everything from moss to human skin. In fact, if it can be bent, shaved, ...READ»
Artist Rob Seward creates a stunning type display using fluorescent light tubes, with words borrowed from an eerie experiment that began in the 1970s.READ»
