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»
Reading printed text is so fluid and transparent for most people that it's hard to imagine it feeling any other way. Maybe that's why it took a dyslexic designer to create a typeface that optimizes the reading experience for people ...READ»
We’ve seen our fair share of clever typefaces, based on everything from photocopied hands to Ghandi’s rounded spectacles, but rarely have we come across a typeface with as much energy and motion as this typeface, which freezes the ...READ»
It's hard to impress us sometimes with new display typefaces -- we just see so damn many of them. The ones that do catch our eye usually incorporate some unexpected physical process into their design. Marc Böttler's "Klotz" type ...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»
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»
Eager to refresh one of America’s most beloved board games -- until this shameful moment in history, anyway -- a BYU design student recently gave Scrabble the high-design treatment: He turned it into a typographic orgy.
A-1 ...READ»
Amid all the hue and cry over the new NBC Universal corporate logo, there are two voices actually worth listening to -- those of Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, the designers of NBC’s beloved peacock. “I think the new one is ...READ»
