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‘Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes’

Eric Carl’s Flickr set here.

Found via Oded Ezer

Tags: cool finds, design history, illustration by steve
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‘Raoul Hausmann’s postcard to IK Bonset (van Doesburg’s alter ego) of rival theorist Herwarth Walden’

Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931). Magazine publisher. Artist. Designer. Propagandist. Troublemaker. Dutch. The guy behind de Stijl.

A van Doesburg show just opened yesterday (my birthday, how bout that?) at the Tate Modern. Review here. Another review here.

Runs thru May 16, 2010.

Stained glass composition by van Doesburg

Plus,
Here’s a link to my own low cost, van Doesburg-influenced font, 2491.

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Paul Renner’s Futura fonts were exported to France under the name Europe. And they came with an interesting alternate a (seen in the top half of this sample). Changes the whole look and feel of the type. Details here.

Found via Colin M. Ford

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‘Healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food’

The work of designer Daizi Zheng.

More images here.

Found via Dezeen

Tags: cool finds, culinary, design by steve
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Advertising typography for Italian Roast Coffee; crayon on paper

The work of London-based designer Mitsuhiro Aita.

Visit his website. Much more to see.

Italian Roast Coffee: Shadow and texture experiments

Italian Roast Coffee: 100 sheets of burnt white paper

Tags: cool finds, culinary, design, photography, typography by steve
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Sutro Tower shirt, San Francisco.

Found via Thomas Hawk

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Nicola López, woodcut and silkscreen on paper

Ten visions of towers, over at PRINTERESTING.

Vladimir Tatlin, letterpress book cover

Michael Dal Cerro, woodcut

Anne-Maree Hunter, book arts, intaglio, silkscreen

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Type image generated by Wordle from my blog’s tags. Try it out here.

Found via Martin Klasch

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Recently, I made most of my font library available for the web via Typekit.

The list is here.

Thru TypeKit web designers can (legally) embed my fonts as html text at any website. Here’s a site that’s using Chandler 42.

Typekit has 4 subscription options; with a free trial plan available. Note: My fonts are only available through the Portfolio plan and higher.

For more info, drop by Typekit. Subscribe to their blog for updates.

And
Here’s a review at Webmonkey that does a good job explaining what all this font embedding hoohah is about.

Tags: cool finds, design, education, fonts, mehallo merchandise, typography by steve
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Michael Hochleitner’s beautiful Ingeborg. One of Fontwerk’s Best of 2009.

Info here. Specimen here.

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Sketches by dr. mendez and nurse wickland

I think our lowercase g is our screwiest letter. It evolved into something quite odd. It has parts that other letters do not have. It also has an ear. It’s often drawn just like a dog’s ear.

Two of my students have been pondering (above) other letters that should have ears.

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