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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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So I’m pretty much out the door right now – driving down to TypeCon.

And this Thursday morning I’ll be speaking as an ‘icebreaker’ in the Type & Design Education Forum. I’ll be going over a bunch of things I’ve learned while teaching; things that I’ve discovered work very well in a creative classroom. [Read more →]

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I have my social side, and my quiet side. Need both. My quiet side results in new fonts and other creative endeavors.

Visual poem (above) by Tanya Davis.

Found via Porcelain Grotto

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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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‘The Who came to see me for a job. Then Cream. Then the Stones. And then The Beatles.’

Pictured, cover for Elton John’s 1975 concept album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by designer/illustrator Alan Aldridge.

Aldridge interview here. Book, The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes here. Babel track, below.

Elton John: Tower of Babel

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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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Los Angeles is famous for its billboards.

Pictured: 1925 promotional art for the Los Angeles real estate market by A. Asanger – from one of my favorite, inexpensive design resource books: Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style.

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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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