“When trying to figure out a problem, pause for minute, and see if you can make it worse. A structure can really describe itself as it falls apart.”
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More →We’re looking for a freelance type designer to help refine a custom type family. Send us your work samples — we’d love to hear from you.
More →Gelett Burgess wrote his mayor a poem about the city’s bad street sign typography. Mayor La Guardia responded in kind. Via New-York Historical Society
More →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.
More →Sign Painters celebrates the hand-painted sign industry, an American tradition.
More →On one of the world’s most well known typefaces.
More →The latest edition of Type Rules! is on the shelves and it was worth the wait.
More →These typefaces were all essential to shaping Helvetica.
More →This looks like it was a fun little project.
More →Alex Fowkes designed this great mural of Sony Music’s history, illustrated with mostly type.
More →It is amazing just how much text exists on the internet. More amazing still is the sheer amount of text that is unavailable.
More →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.
More →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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