"Words have meaning and type has spirit," says Paula Scher. "And the combination is just spectacular." That combination is the heart of a new short film by PBS, the latest in their "Off Book" series of web films about art and ...READ MORE›
I've been nursing a vague urge to learn letterpress printing for a couple years, so I'm always excited when some new easy, beginner-friendly opportunity presents itself -- like Kyle Durrie's road-tripping Moveable Type, which teaches ...READ MORE›
Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) has opened a nice little exhibit sure to draw high-minded type aficionados and snotty-nosed kindergarteners in equal measure: It's a showcase of each letter of the alphabet, diced, dyed, ...READ MORE›
Playtype.com, one of Europe’s preeminent online font foundries, has opened a gorgeous brick-and-mortar shop in Copenhagen dedicated to flogging digital typefaces.
Customers can walk in off the street and buy fonts loaded on USBs ...READ MORE›
The way it felt to read a book 400 years ago is almost gone today, and for more than reasons than the obvious ones. The swoops and rhythms of ancient typography have been all but lost in an age of modern digital fonts and utilitarian ...READ MORE›
Online, everyone’s a design critic. We don’t have to like it. But we can’t avoid it. Which makes Fonts in Use, a new site by designers Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles, and Nick Sherman, a refreshing addition to the blogosphere: It ...READ MORE›
Typography has a knack for bringing out everyone's inner schoolmarm. Never stretch a font. Ban Comic Sans. Three typefaces? Tsk, tsk.
Which is why we’re delighted to tell you about a new book that puts a big, fat Comic Sans ...READ MORE›
Let's face it: we're all font nerds now. Every computer application, from mundane Microsoft Word to the most souped-up version of Photoshop, provides hundreds of typographic options. So why do they all make it so annoying to find the ...READ MORE›
Who's dorkier: Star Wars fans or type nerds? It's probably a toss-up. Especially now that Italian agency H-57 Creative Station has created a series of illustrations that'll drive members of either tribe into a geeked-out frenzy. (This ...READ MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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