It starts with a 16 year old Louise Fili traveling to Italy, stepping off the plane, and falling in love with a billboard. That moment marked the start of Fili’s typographic obsession, and budding career in graphic design.
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Grafica Della Strada, The Signs Of Italy
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Fonts of the Homeless
Typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people in Barcelona. All proceeds go to the Arrels Foundation, an organization for the benefit of Barcelona’s homeless.
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Danish Typographic Style
In 2001 I attended the ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) conference in Copenhagen (København if you’re a Dane).
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The Castan Font by Carter Wong
This looks like it was a fun little project.
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The typographic work of Alex Fowkes for Sony Music
Alex Fowkes designed this great mural of Sony Music’s history, illustrated with mostly type.
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The Old Printing Office
The Old Printing Office by Frank Luther Mott is an account of Mott as a printer’s devil for his father’s small town weekly papers in Iowa.
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Book Life
It is amazing just how much text exists on the internet. More amazing still is the sheer amount of text that is unavailable.
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Scientists Report Good Typography Improves Mood
I once found myself lost in the Khan el-Khalili bazaar in Cairo. As any sensible person would do, I asked a local for directions.
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Inside the office of Hoefler & Frere-Jones
A highlight of 2013, this video was part to a presentation of the AIGA 2013 Medal awards for which Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones were awarded.
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Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter.
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Brooklyn’s Earl Kallemeyn Talks Letterpress
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Handmade Stuff at Papillon Press
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Rob’s Letterpress 101
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Ellen Lupton’s Bauhaus Bags Lab at MoMA (2009)
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Preview FontShop fonts directly in your Photoshop comps
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Movable Type Kickstarter Project Gremolata & Cancellaresca Milanese
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