Vox’s Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper.
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Type & Lettering on tumblr
We have a new tumblr blog that focuses of type, lettering and fonts. If that’s your thing follow Type & Lettering on tumblr.
8 Vintage Inspired Fonts
If you’re anything like me you’ve had a couple of clients ask about creating that distressed or old time vintage look for their brand. This post is a collection of 8 vintage inspired fonts to help you create the right look for your next design project.
21 Lovely Letters & Numbers
Letters are lovely, and since you’re reading this blog I’d be willing to bet you’re a letter lover as well.
Fazer Café
Kokoro & Moi is responsible for the brand identity for the new Fazer Cafés. The work spans the brand’s story to tone-of-voice, visual identity and communication concepts both online and offline. Spatial design for the café is developed in collaboration with the interior architecture office Koko3.
Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces
Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you’ll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books — remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.
[via Gizmodo]
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Welcome to Bern and to Buro Destruct. Director Kai Sehr paid a visit to the Swiss design collective and documented how they stay true to their motto of over 15 years: “Small City. Big Design.” The project: development of a typeface from a pen.
Learn more about this project and, more importantly, get the typeface at type-for-type.com
Graphic design can change your life
Erik Spiekermann talking with Gestalten TV about the process of designing typefaces.