BIBLIOTECAS
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You Think That's Bad26 August 2010, 9:08 am
Jason Booher....
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Three Armies on the Somme26 August 2010, 9:06 am
Jason Booher....
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To the End of the Land26 August 2010, 9:04 am
Jason Booher....
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Once Before Time26 August 2010, 9:02 am
Jason Booher....
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I Was a Dancer26 August 2010, 8:59 am
Jason Booher....
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Madame de Stael26 August 2010, 8:56 am
Jason Booher, Helen Yentus....
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Mother California26 August 2010, 8:53 am
Jason Booher, Helen Yentus....
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Inside the Stalin Archives26 August 2010, 8:52 am
Jason Booher, Helen Yentus....
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John Gall, The Design Bureau3 August 2010, 9:09 pm
“The re-working, dealing with all the feedback (some warranted, some moronic) ‘make this bigger’, ‘make this smaller’, ‘my psychic thinks it should be blue’—that is what separates the men from the boys,”
Nice interview with a man at the top of his game. Most of it is related to the Nabokov series. If I were [...]...
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Da Capo Press is hiring18 June 2010, 7:07 am
I’m jealous of whoever winds up with this job. Working under Alex Camlin’s would be an experience. Learn more....
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Flickr Photo Download: Charles Harper Atlantic Coast Ford Times 19614 September 2010, 12:47 pm
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DTYBYWL4 September 2010, 10:51 am
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100 Layer Cake4 September 2010, 9:42 am
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monstrebbed1.jpg (JPEG-Grafik, 525x700 Pixel) - Skaliert (85%)4 September 2010, 9:29 am
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The Frightening Beauty of Bunkers - The Morning News4 September 2010, 9:11 am
via http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_frightening_beauty_of_bunkers/...
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Who is to say what is real and what is not? “Real” is a... - but does it float4 September 2010, 8:41 am
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World of Logotypes – Part 4 | Aqua-Velvet4 September 2010, 8:24 am
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Alien Landscape by ~Roboworks on deviantART4 September 2010, 6:32 am
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DETHJUNKIE*4 September 2010, 6:32 am
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tumblr_kyfolkOpKQ1qa1uh8o1_1280.jpg (800×771)4 September 2010, 6:25 am
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FORZA: A New Font Family from H&FJ4 August 2010, 11:20 am
Typeface: Forza
There are stylized typefaces that speak in a singular, powerful voice, and there are versatile ones capable of expressing many different moods. We feel the pull of both extremes, and are especially fascinated by the typographic styles caught in between. Sans serifs based on the rounded rectangle are an interesting study: they’re adaptable enough to have survived almost two hundred years, but in every incarnation they return with a new but overly specific agenda. The ones on ...
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Lettering of the WPA23 June 2010, 6:00 am
Our designer Brian Hennings stumbled across a great resource this morning: on the website of the Library of Congress, a collection of 926 posters from the Works Progress Administration. The LOC has done a nice job with this collection, providing for each poster not only the relevant archival information, but high-resolution TIFF files that are free to download.
I’ve yet to meet the designer who doesn’t have at least a little affection for optimistic lettering of the WPA. We’ve stopped s...
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Learning Typeface Design15 June 2010, 10:00 pm
Learning to draw letters is hard enough, but learning to create typefaces is something else entirely. For those with an interest in both, H&FJ’s Sara Soskolne will be teaching “Turning Letters into Type,” a week-long workshop at New York’s School of Visual Arts, July 12–16. Registration is now open, and seats are limited.
Soskolne, who has contributed to some of H&FJ’s most exhaustive projects (Verlag, Chronicle, Gotham) and some of its snappiest (Tungsten, Sentinel, Numbers) will...
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The Murderer Wore Serifs15 June 2010, 10:00 am
Typeface designers live with the permanent possibility of encountering their work at unexpected moments. Your old college now uses a font that you designed; in a movie, whose story takes place before you were born, your typefaces are used for prop newspapers and storefronts; the intimidating signs that scold you in public places now address you in your own handwriting. These odd social dislocations have lately been compounded by an additional weirdness, the phenomenon of the literate non-special...
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New from H&FJ: Whitney Greek & Cyrillic10 June 2010, 7:00 am
Typeface: Whitney Multiscript
H&FJ is pleased to introduce Whitney® Greek, Cyrillic, and Multiscript, a new internationalization of our Whitney family for our friends in Ελλάδα, Содружество Независимых Государств, and България.
We’ve taken the fonts that already serve more than 140 languages, and extended them into the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets to satisfy sixty more. Whitney Cyrillic features our new Cyrillic-X™ character set, designed ...
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An Enchanted Alphabet11 May 2010, 12:00 pm
I have a special affection for decorated letters, especially the ornamented designs of the nineteenth century. You know the kind: they're chubby Regency typefaces, slab serifs or high-contrast ‘Fat Faces,’ mostly, whose surfaces are emblazoned with intricate patterns or pastoral scenes. The collection of L. J. Pouchée contains some genuine masterpieces that I’ve long admired, letters festooned with grapevines or peonies or cobblestones, or illuminated with bucolic vignettes of farmer at t...
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Typography Shared5 May 2010, 1:05 am
Typefaces: Ziggurat, Archer, Gotham
Designers who use our fonts have been sharing their work on our Facebook page, much to the delight of both H&FJ’s designers and our followers online. Some recent lovelies, clockwise from top left: Christopher Simmons designed this cheerful festival poster using Ziggurat, Leviathan, and a little Hoefler Text; a corporate identity that uses Archer (and a clever emboss) by Mike Kasperski; Gotham in a terrific typographic abecedarium by Paul van Brunschot and...
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Things We Love22 April 2010, 10:00 pm
Typeface: Knockout
When we designed the Knockout type family, which celebrates the exuberance of nineteenth century wood type, we wondered: what designer would knowingly use the fonts to recall a world of quack medical cures and traveling vaudevillians? The answer, as it so often turns out to be, is “smart aleck Canadian advertising agencies.” Behold the truly excellent Grip Limited, who have created a typographic tour-de-force in Knockout (and a little Archer) that really repays scrollin...
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Ask H&FJ: Mixing Fonts29 March 2010, 12:00 pm
Every font shown on this site is accompanied by a set of suggested pairings. These are all personal selections (would that they could be automated!) and we're often asked about our methodology for deciding what fonts go together. The truth is that these are intuitive choices: since we design all the fonts ourselves, we're intimately familiar with their visual, functional, cultural and historical qualities, and just have a general sense of "what goes." And yet there are always surprises: I'd neve...
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Typography Delivered Fresh16 February 2010, 10:00 pm
A friend who teaches typography on the undergraduate level recently asked an unexpected favor: “can my students browse the e-mails H&FJ sends out?” Apparently he’s in the habit of circulating printouts with his students, when they raise questions that we’ve recently discussed with our readers — how to choose fonts for information-heavy projects like annual reports being an especially hot topic, though he also encourages his students to dig deeply in the character sets of their fonts, a...
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Ode, a Fresh Start for a Broken Script1 September 2010, 5:05 am
By Martin Wenzel When designing a typeface, I prefer to explore a construction principle rather than revive an existing typeface idea. These principles or writing models are based on the tools and techniques originally used. Understanding these workings are often a great source of inspiration for me. The starting point for my latest typeface Ode [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. Ode, a Fresh Start for a Broken Script...
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The origins of abc6 August 2010, 8:28 pm
Where does our alphabet come from? We see it every day on signs, billboards, packaging, in books and magazines; in fact, you are looking at it now — the Latin or Roman alphabet, the world’s most prolific, most widespread abc. Typography is a relatively recent invention, but to unearth the origins of alphabets, we will [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. The origins of abc...
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Reviving Caslon26 July 2010, 3:52 am
By William Berkson Part 1: the snare of authenticity How much should a revival of a typeface look like the original? Well, just as with performing an old song—an analogy Matthew Carter has made—there is something you have to like in the original in order want to revive it. And you can’t depart from the [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. Reviving Caslon...
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Biome — the making of a typeface1 July 2010, 2:57 am
by Carl Crossgrove A biome in nature is essentially an ecosystem. It’s also the name for my new typeface family. The 14-weight Biome™ Wide family is now available on fonts.com. Now that the design is complete, I’m able to look back on the process. The drawings that led to Biome (previously known as Nebulon) were [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. Biome — the making of a typeface...
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An Introduction to OpenType Substitution Features18 June 2010, 3:52 am
By Martin Martin Wenzel & Christoph Koeberlin I have published this article as a page. You can read it here. Right now I’m unable to get the JavaScript working within a WordPress post. Once fixed, the page will redirect to a proper WordPress post. In the meantime, if you’d like to comment, then you can [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. An Introduction to OpenType Substitution Features...
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Founders Grotesk25 May 2010, 7:40 am
By Kris Sowersby The impetus for Founders Grotesk originally came from Duncan Forbes of The International Office. We had often discussed the nature and usefulness of the classic grotesks, and the possibility of creating a new one. After trawling through my 1912 Miller & Richard specimen, he became enamoured with their series of Grotesques, particularly [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. Founders Grotesk...
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Why did I start a type foundry?6 May 2010, 7:38 am
By Christian Schwartz Why would anyone in his or her right mind start a type foundry now? Well, to begin with, it’s often said that it’s a good idea to start a business in a recession. However, the type marketplace has gotten very crowded—there are more foundries and distributors of type in all sizes right [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. Why did I start a type foundry?...
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Creating Grand Gargantua29 April 2010, 4:33 am
By Paul Dijstelberge MOVABLE TYPE: perhaps nowadays few will know the exact meaning of these two words, but until the middle of the twentieth century a letter was a small piece of lead, and to use it for printing you literally had to move it around, by hand. In the 20th century big machines like [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. Creating Grand Gargantua...
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The Vignelli Twelve17 April 2010, 5:42 am
We use way too many fonts Though I have the utmost respect for Massimo Vignelli, and am a fan of his work, his we use too many typefaces is just plain wrong. It’s by no means the first time Vignelli has voiced these views. If you have no idea what I’m writing about, then watch [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. The Vignelli Twelve...
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José Mendoza y Almeida3 April 2010, 10:52 am
Dan Reynolds’ review of Bibliothèque Typographique’s first book, José Mendoza y Almeida Dan Reynolds’ review of Bibliothèque Typographique’s first book, José Mendoza y Almeida Who is Jose Mendoza? José Mendoza y Almeida was perhaps the most internationally active 20th century French type designer. While he also produced work for local distributors, his most significant faces [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. José Mendoza y Almeida...
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The Feedback Loop Notebook Project3 September 2010, 8:36 am
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Mohawk Show 11 Finalist: Feed Forward Feedback3 September 2010, 5:07 am
This book documents the long, strange trip of RISD’s 2009 graduating class, as the students grapple with the big questions of design. Here they have tried to create a “new taxonomy of work — based on methods and materials rather than department or discipline.” Client: Rhode Island School of Design Design Firm: Studio Mercury Designer: [...]...
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Destination GAIN: Where Stanley Hainsworth’s heading for (re)invention3 September 2010, 3:00 am
[Stanley Hainsworth] When Kenna Kay and I were asked to co-chair the 2010 AIGA GAIN conference, we looked at ourselves and said, “As fellow designers let’s ensure this conference will be something people will anticipate with excitement, experience irresistibly, and walk away from inspired, motivated and determined to make some changes.” So we started mining [...]...
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