BIBLIOTECAS
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The Broom of the System10 March 2010, 3:07 pm
Duke Riley....
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Incendiary9 March 2010, 8:31 pm
John Gall....
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The White Mary8 March 2010, 4:42 pm
Kelly Blair....
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Something Is Out There6 March 2010, 3:22 am
Peter Mendelsund....
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The Crow's Vow5 March 2010, 1:48 pm
David Drummond....
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Penguin UK on iPad4 March 2010, 10:45 pm
A brief presentation that includes a children’s book, some reference stuff, and one piece of fiction (a Twilight knock-off) at 1:30 (courtesy of Engadget).
Pretty but reminiscent of mid-nineties multimedia CD-ROMs — a world of over-wrought animation and mystery-meat navigation. The web succeeded where “multimedia” failed; I’d prefer that Penguin’s efforts more closely resembled HTML than [...]...
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The Book Cover Archive could use an intern3 March 2010, 4:03 pm
We’re considering taking on an intern. Anyone interested?
Tasks and responsibilities would include: helping organize the queue of covers, helping find and post work to the site, helping respond to the flood of submissions we get, a bit of basic spreadsheet maintenance that isn’t as boring as it sounds.
In exchange, you get:
- To make a valued [...]...
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On the Beach2 March 2010, 4:18 pm
Jamie Keenan....
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A Town Like Alice2 March 2010, 4:18 pm
Jamie Keenan....
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Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics2 March 2010, 4:21 am
Stefan Sagmeister....
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Painter, illustrator, graphic and designer based in Nantes, France -- Gallery10 March 2010, 7:48 pm
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NOZINE_SHOP_NO2_spread2.jpg 680×511 píxeles10 March 2010, 7:29 pm
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NOZINE_SHOP_NO1_spread6.jpg 680×511 píxeles10 March 2010, 6:56 pm
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GigPosters.com - Annie & The Beekeepers10 March 2010, 6:10 pm
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but does it float10 March 2010, 6:03 pm
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Dezeen » Blog Archive » Ink Calendar by Oscar Diaz10 March 2010, 4:45 pm
via http://www.dezeen.com/2009/07/17/ink-calendar-by-oscar-diaz/...
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The map of the future (Wired Italia) on the Behance Network10 March 2010, 4:24 pm
via http://www.behance.net/Gallery/The-map-of-the-future-(Wired-Italia)/319690?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Instant...
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DETHJUNKIE*10 March 2010, 4:12 pm
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Negative space in logo design | Logo Design Love10 March 2010, 3:45 pm
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Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » sneak peek: fitzhugh & lyndsay of the brooklyn home co.10 March 2010, 3:44 pm
via http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/03/sneak-peek-fitzhugh-lyndsay-of-the-brooklyn-home-co.html...
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Typography Delivered Fresh17 February 2010, 5:00 am
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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The Tablet Magazine16 February 2010, 4:00 pm
Typefaces: Vitesse, Tungsten, and Gotham Rounded
Wired gets it. Today they’re going public with the prototype they shared with us a few weeks ago, and if you’re like me, your reaction will be an instantaneous “neat!” followed immediately by “well, isn’t it obvious it was supposed to work this way?” When something creates and fulfills expectations at the same time, you know you’ve got it right. —JH...
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The 21st Century Object Poster5 February 2010, 2:00 pm
In 1906, the Priester Match Company held an open contest for the design of a poster. Art Nouveau was in full flower, so surely the judges expected to receive decadent renderings of languid smokers, things perhaps in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec or Alphonse Mucha. What none of them expected was a shockingly bold drawing of two matchsticks, almost antagonistically free of nuance: this winning entry, by a twenty-three year old designer named Lucian Bernhard, would come to be recognized as the worl...
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VITESSE: A New Font Family from H&FJ12 January 2010, 5:00 am
Typeface: Vitesse
H&FJ is delighted to introduce Vitesse®, a new slab serif in twelve styles.
Slab serifs are one of typography’s most vibrant categories, yet they remain dominated by two ancient forms: the nineteenth century Antique, and the twentieth century Geometric. Both are vital and living genres — we’ve explored each of them, in our Sentinel and Archer type families — but what of the twenty-first century slab? Vitesse revels in the tension between organic letterforms and m...
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Because We’re, You Know, Cyborgs7 January 2010, 12:08 pm
Odd choice of fonts. Only one way to improve on it. —JH...
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Uptown App, for iPhones21 December 2009, 12:00 pm
Typefaces: Gotham, Mercury Text, Giant
Manhattan’s urban grid is a vaunted model of simplicity, a rectilinear plan of numbered streets intersecting numbered avenues. Never mind that West 4th Street crosses West 10th, that those walking from Fifth Avenue to Third Avenue will seldom encounter Fourth Avenue, and that “North” in the New York sense differs from conventional "North" to the tune of 29°. It’s this kind of accuracy, transparency and accountability that makes New York the perf...
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Typographic Gifts for Designers, Part 1717 December 2009, 11:00 am
I wonder what sort of psychological profile one could draw from my favorite childhood possessions. I neither played nor followed football, but clung to my NFL lunchbox that showed all the team helmets with their different insignia. I had no special interest in English History, but was fascinated by the chart in our living room that traced the succession of British monarchs from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II. A kindergarten teacher gave me a chart of rocks and minerals found in the ...
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Typographic Gifts for Designers, Part 1616 December 2009, 2:00 pm
"Modern Gaspipe" is the charming taxonomic name for this kind of letterform. We’ve explored the style in our Tungsten type family — itself a fine holiday gift at $99, ahem. But for those with a hankering for decor, the always fruitful Three Potato Four has this unlittle item for sale, a huge handpainted wooden figure three (34" / 86cm), perfect for your living room, studio, or threearium. Thanks to our designer Brian Hennings for finding this one: frankly I'm amazed that he hasn't had his fi...
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G Thing10 December 2009, 11:40 am
Typeface: Acropolis
An Acropolis Italic sighting is a rare event, so even at 48 pixels I couldn’t help but notice that George Garrastegui used the font’s letter G in his Twitter icon. George was kind enough to send me the original file, though it’s not the mere design fragment I’d assumed: it’s a photo of a foot-high sculpture in corrugated cardboard, made manifest by fellow designer Maurizio Masi. Thank goodness George’s name begins with a letter that can stand on its own, for ha...
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Typography Without Ink7 December 2009, 1:00 pm
This weekend, I replaced a DVD player that finally conked out after eleven years. Whatever delight I once took in acquiring a new piece of electronics has long been eclipsed by the responsibilities of dealing with its byproducts: its packaging, thankfully limited to recyclable cardboard and biodegradable packing peanuts, and also the carcass of the old device itself, which this year a local equipment recycler will be disassembling and recycling as responsibly as possible. Even the best process i...
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The library of the Gutenberg Museum28 February 2010, 7:26 pm
By Dan ReynoldsI. Introduction Large or small, letters seem to inhabit their own universe. Re-arrangeable in any combination, they can spell out all conceivable messages, be they poetic, bureaucratic, or anything in between. But sometimes a text is just about its letters themselves, not an object to be read, but one to be looked at. Type [...]...
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Designing Armitage18 February 2010, 2:39 am
By James PuckettThis is the doorway to The Claremount, an apartment building in Manhattan. I think that it was built in the 1890s. Those letters over the door just reached out and grabbed me from across the street and I had a typeface coming on.The Claremount, 229–31 East 12 St, New York. I had been studying [...]...
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Art and Text2 February 2010, 2:54 pm
Reviewed by James PuckettArtist Joseph Kosuth’s 1965 work One and Three Chairs presented a static composition that represents an idea three ways. It was heady stuff, addressing what conceptual artists saw as a crisis of reconciling the realization of concepts with the concepts. One of the three material representations in One and Three Chairs [...]...
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My favourite fonts of 200920 January 2010, 6:53 pm
But will it fly?Perhaps the most difficult part in compiling this list is not what to include, but what to leave out. There are, then, many other typefaces that should be in this list, but aren’t. Perhaps some of your favourites from 2009 coincide with mine; perhaps they don’t — I’d love to hear about [...]...
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Twenty-ten type4 January 2010, 5:44 pm
The Week in Type Hoping that everyone is feeling refreshed, invigorated and inspired after Christmas and New Year. That we are now in 2010 is arbitrary, but it is at the same time a marker, the end of something, and the beginning of something else; a kind of armistice, an opportunity to dump all the bad, [...]...
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The Making of Vesper14 December 2009, 5:51 pm
By Rob Keller Vesper was developed over the course of almost three years. For this article, I’ve divided the process into two stages: #1 during my studies at the University of Reading; and #2 After Reading. Hopefully through this highly-condensed-yet-still-rather-wordy account of this project you will learn some interesting bits regarding my first major type family, [...]...
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Our own alphabet13 December 2009, 4:55 pm
One Hundred Days I don’t usually do these single-item posts, but just had to share this. An alphabet created using items from the Mitchell Library’s broad and eclectic collections—with wonderful results. Some of the letters are accompanied by videos explaining the origins of their constituent parts.In celebration of their centenary. Thanks to @ashmorris...
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Graphic Masterpieces of Yakov G. Chernikhov: The Collection of Dmitry Y. Chernikhov8 December 2009, 8:37 am
Reviewed by James Puckett Yakov G. Chernikov (1889–1951), was a Russian artist, designer, and architect learned in classical and modern styles. As a draftsman he was on par with Piranesi and Rembrandt; his most forward-thinking drawings resemble the style of Yoshitaka Amano. This combination of knowledge and skill made him one of the most accomplished Russian [...]...
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Wishing on a typeface4 December 2009, 1:48 pm
By Nadine Chahine Nadine Chahine is a type designer for Linotype GmbH, where she is also Branding & CI Manager, and Arabic Specialist. She designed Frutiger Arabic with Adrian Frutiger and Palatino Arabic with Hermann Zapf, for which she won the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the TDC. Today I’m excited to announce that [...]...
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The Right Type of Education19 November 2009, 8:50 pm
By Abi Huynh Last year Mathieu Christe and Berton Hasebe wrote a very thorough article detailing the general day to day of the Type and Media masters program. With this article we hope to outline an historical overview of the course and provide a brief look at the final project typefaces from the 08/09 class. Type Design [...]...
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What could be more fun than a deck of Steampunk Monkeys?10 March 2010, 12:09 am
[Tom Biederbeck] Steampunk is a mashup of Victorian technology, sci fi and punk that’s hot these days. It’s a cross between Jules Verne and Tom Verlaine, taking the form of fashion, fiction and now trading cards via Steampunk Monkey Nation, hilariously rendered by Chet Art and available at Felt & Wire Shop.
Chet Phillips, proprietor of [...]...
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Copy Jam!9 March 2010, 3:54 pm
On Thursday March 25, from 6–9 p.m., contributors to the blog printeresting.org will host a reception at Philadelphia creative collaboration Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. “COPY JAM!” will coincide with Mark/Remarque, the 2010 conference of SGC Philadephia, and the city-wide festival Philagrafika 2010. [LS]
COPY JAM! will be an interactive print event. During the party, [...]...
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Ladies of letterpress8 March 2010, 10:52 pm
Welcoming letterpress printers of all experience levels and specializations: from commercial printers to fine-press printers, zine makers to retail stationers. Ladies of Letterpress, founded in 2009 by Kseniya Thomas of Thomas-Printers and Jessica White of Heroes and Criminals Press, provides a community for the many new letterpress printers starting up every year. Members come together online [...]...
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