How many fonts are installed on your computer? A hundred? A thousand? Simply knowing the differences between all these options is a daunting enough prospect, much less knowing which one is the "right" choice for a design project. Dan ...READ»
We recently wrote about Ruslan Khasanov’s sublime typeface, Au Revoir, which he made by painting letterforms onto a porcelain sink with the spigot on and photographing them before they slipped down the drain. Now, the Russian ...READ»
I have a confession to make. There was a time, many years ago, where I thought that typography was fashion by another name. I didn't really appreciate how different typefaces function, and how the discipline evolved over time, under ...READ»
I waxed ecstatic last week about a type-design program that had the courtesy to show beginners the ropes while they used it. Now comes Typography Insight, an even better (and at $1.99 in the iTunes App Store, much realer) iPad app ...READ»
Making beautiful typefaces out of Xeroxed body parts and ink droplets may look easy, but make no mistake: good typography is hard to do. And designing the typefaces themselves is even trickier: it's easy to tell when a letterform ...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»
Kids make snowmen, type geeks make... snow type!
The fluffy, frigid letters you see here are the work of Veronica Falsen Hiis, an Oslo designer, who took to the streets with her friend Synne Toften one wintry Nordic day and ...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»
