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What would William Caslon look like if he were working today?

This is one of my favorite takes on Caslon (above) – editorial designed by Mark van Bronkhorst and written by John D. Berry.

It’s the 1998 front and back cover of one of the final print issues of Upper & Lower Case magazine (and as you can see, my copy is a bit mussed up). William Caslon would be wearing a blue suit today, such is the nature of the biz.

Inside U&lc was an incredible promo for the late Justin Howes’ historically accurate ITC Founders Caslon – one of the most faithful updates ever digitized. [Read more →]

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I’ve been a fan of the design work of Mark van Bronkhorst for years – and he’s just relaunched MVB fonts and fired up a new Twitter account.

And if you signup/subscribe/givehimyouremail, you’ll get cool things showing up in your inbox which will include a free copy of MVB Embarcadero Bold (a real font, worth 79 bucks)  . . .

All you have to do is go here and do what it says.

Offer ends September 15, 2010.

Found via Delve

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‘Moshun’s a fairly simple design – done in just two days in Illustrator and After Effects – that happens to leap, spiral, and shimmy into place.’

Moshun (pronounced Mo-shun, of course) was created by Dutch designer Jeroen Krielaars. Article (with much more detail) here.

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Experimental typeface inspired by the work of Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964). Drawn in 1990 by Tobias Frere-Jones; now one of the co-owners of H&FJ.

I love how this face captures the orthogonals of the De Stijl movement, of which Rietveld’s famous Red Blue Chair was one of their icons.

Wish this Rietveld type were available somewhere.

Found via a book that I used to have – it vanished into a murky, dusty pile many, many years ago

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‘Aubhaus is a constructivist and geometric font. Great for use as a big display font on titles and short texts. It features Latin and Non Latin Characters.’

Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s Aubhaus font. Available thru YouWorkForThem.

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Another Metropolis remix (above).

The complete, newly restored Metropolis (1927) will be showing locally at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento, September 11 and 12, 2010.

Found via Alex R. Trujillo

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Video for Treponem Pal‘s Dirty Dance, from the album Weird Machine. Directed by Olivier Lelong.

For more, drop by his website here.

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‘Abbot Nicolaus Telegdi purchased the Vienna Jesuit press in 1577 and started to work immediately with its own worn typefaces. His first works were publications of his own speeches.’

Amondó Szegi’s take on Telegdi’s types are a well-worn set of fonts. With some kooky dingbats.

Snag em here. Or here.

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