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“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 [...]...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/HebquPK-jRE/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/HebquPK-jRE/ 18 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....]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/kGLJVUaht6o/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/kGLJVUaht6o/ 8 June 2010, 8:14 am
A bit old, but I hadn’t seen this one. Techno Tuesday is the most scathingly wonderful series I’ve come across in a while....]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/MnBmYggkQsQ/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/MnBmYggkQsQ/ 21 May 2010, 1:49 pm
Have a nice weekend....]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/C42nYEGMM5s/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/C42nYEGMM5s/ 19 May 2010, 12:34 pm
As you’d expect, I’ve got a search column on TweetDeck for “pieratt”. One of the few advantages of having a weird surname is that most related queries are relevant to my interests in one way or another. For instance, I’ve got no relation to this store, but I plan to buy a staff shirt from [...]...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/_ZBTy6Cxs44/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/_ZBTy6Cxs44/ 10 May 2010, 6:16 pm
1928-2010...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/OCsWYQJiRto/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/OCsWYQJiRto/ 13 April 2010, 8:15 pm
Important stuff here, folks. Though I don’t want to jinx anything by revealing too much, I’ll probably cast my vote on option #3. The homage to Lady Liberty is well considered, and the lighting from a new dawn really drives the concept home....]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/uBtunaF96UQ/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/uBtunaF96UQ/ 17 March 2010, 9:38 am
I came into contact with Matthias while he was working with Gestalten, the publisher of art and design books. Friendly and accommodating with an air of efficiency, he came across as the perfect editor. Up until the launch of his new site, I had no idea that he’d not only edited a good handful of [...]...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/Lqp_8fCpkh0/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/Lqp_8fCpkh0/ 4 March 2010, 2:45 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 [...]...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/ZbEDqmml6nw/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/book_cover_archive/~3/ZbEDqmml6nw/ 3 March 2010, 8:03 am
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 [...]...]]> http://ffffound.com/image/8af12eb38d7164c0fbfeec3a2410ca9de631af8a http://ffffound.com/image/8af12eb38d7164c0fbfeec3a2410ca9de631af8a 8 September 2010, 3:40 am
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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 ...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=246 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=246 23 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...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=244 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=244 15 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...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=243 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=243 15 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...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=242 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=242 10 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 ...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=240 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=240 11 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...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=239 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=239 5 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...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=238 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=238 22 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...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=237 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=237 29 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...]]> http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=236 http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=236 16 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/AtXajWdMG4o/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/AtXajWdMG4o/ 1 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/emluw-iz3rg/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/emluw-iz3rg/ 6 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/qAcjXOLcPVo/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/qAcjXOLcPVo/ 26 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/npfUavWbofo/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/npfUavWbofo/ 1 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/-h9DH-YXupI/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/-h9DH-YXupI/ 18 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/gpmHLSMfw6s/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/gpmHLSMfw6s/ 25 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/pDGiIP9NXD8/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/pDGiIP9NXD8/ 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?...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/iiIwcbjZ1-g/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/iiIwcbjZ1-g/ 29 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/sESxb-je2CQ/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/sESxb-je2CQ/ 17 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...]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/9gE_QK2nUxQ/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/9gE_QK2nUxQ/ 3 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...]]> http://www.feltandwire.com/2010/09/07/underway-pocket-pals/ http://www.feltandwire.com/2010/09/07/underway-pocket-pals/ 7 September 2010, 6:15 am
Should Felt & Wire offer a prize for applied paper folding? Just when I think I’ve seen it all, I came across these cool invitations from Joey Notes. A finalist for the coveted Louie Award at the 2010 National Stationery Show, the cards are fun, and use Mohawk’s Via paper in such a refreshingly unexpected [...]...]]> http://www.feltandwire.com/2010/09/07/thirdbays-print-is-alive-poster-is-a-tour-de-force-in-letterpress/ http://www.feltandwire.com/2010/09/07/thirdbays-print-is-alive-poster-is-a-tour-de-force-in-letterpress/ 7 September 2010, 5:40 am
[Tom Biederbeck] An exceptional creative achievement, a particularly adroit maneuver, a difficult feat: The definition of tour de force — perfectly describing the masterful poster produced by Martin Venezky and ThirdBay Letterpress. Here, I talk with ThirdBay’s proprietor Jeff Towner about the printing dimension of the project … and unexpectedly get an education in letterpress. [...]...]]> http://www.feltandwire.com/2010/09/03/underway-mohawk-show-11-finalist-feed-forward-feedback/ http://www.feltandwire.com/2010/09/03/underway-mohawk-show-11-finalist-feed-forward-feedback/ 3 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: [...]...]]>