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‘A video of two people drawing the alphabet.’

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‘Hand sprinkled cinnamon’

Snapshot by student Rikki Morehouse. She went thru several cups of coffee til she got them serifs right.

(Hedline written by former student Devon Cloutier)

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‘Vuitton Persona is an all-capital two-color custom font designed by Jean François Porchez for Louis Vuitton Malletier. Hand-painted stripes and monograms are part of the Vuitton heritage, and it was natural to apply this to new technologies.’

Exclusive typeface. Custom monograms. Details here. Official website here.

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A few fonts from the new Georgia Pro type family

Matthew Carter’s Georgia is among my favorite fonts. And recently, Georgia turned into something a bit  . . .  more.

I love that Georgia exists, or the interwebs would be Times forever (well, until WOFF kicks in) – and without Georgia, the argument that sans fonts online are more legible (which I think is hooey) sort of wins.

And if you’re reading my blog directly online (without using RSS), you’re reading Georgia. It does what I like it to do. Reads well. [Read more →]

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‘Christian Schwartz has partnered with Paul Barnes to form Commercial Type, a new type foundry based in London and New York’

Pictured – some beautiful types – Austin and Giorgio – by Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes.

Visit the new foundry here. Click on the images for type info/jump.

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Isla Waite’s extremely heavy, laser cut student final from my most recent experimental typography course. Her research subject was Erik Spiekermann.

No digitally-made drop shadows here.

Type Munching Dinos by Tiffany Valdez.

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Erik Spiekermann was the guest on Design Chat last week.

Archive here. Detailed post about Spiekermann (with additional videos, links and tons more) here.

I still use his Sheep book as my intro text to the world of typography.

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Part one

‘Fry travels across Europe to find out how Gutenberg kept his development work secret, about the role of avaricious investors and unscrupulous competitors and why Gutenberg’s approach started a cultural revolution.’

Stephen Fry loves design. That’s one of the reasons he’s really cool. [Read more →]

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‘I could not be happier about this, or any more proud to live in a city that recognise the importance of preserving this kind of work.’

Vintage signs unearthed and preserved in Copenhagen. Details here.

Found via Martin Klasch

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‘Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection’

A film by Arev Manoukian. Making of video here.

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‘The film’s title is an allusion to Tatlin’s Tower. This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.’

Brilliantly done! From 2006.

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