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Mercedes Schreibmaschine poster by Ernst Dryden, 1911.

Found via Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden

Tags: design, design history, illustration, typography by steve
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‘She did not hesitate to break up forms and rearrange their component parts. She introduced musical notation, letters and words, as they flash past in shop signs; she expressed movement by repeating the same form in several phases of its action and velocity by blurring contours.’ –Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings

The work of Natalya Goncharova (1881-1962).

Tags: art, design, design history, education, typography by steve
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Studio On Fire’s Godspeed poster, printed from bicycle parts.

Details here.

Found via Emi Senga

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‘For his thesis, Dong Yoon Park, a Masters student at Parsons, built an iPad app designed to teach pros and novices alike the arcane world of typography.’

Details here.

Found via Taxi

Tags: design, education, fonts, typography by steve
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‘It’s an amalgamation of ‘sign’ (Korean written language) and ‘space’: signs become spaces, and spaces become signs’

The South Korean pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Designed by Mass Studies. More info here.

Found via Poketo

Tags: design, exhibitions, typography by steve
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Spotted in Soho.

Found via According to G

Tags: art, cool finds, design, illustration, typography by steve
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‘joining the baroque Serif with the geometric Sans, the formal with the flourish decorative – ARS Novelty is a typeface that tries to make sense of it all’

A hybrid font designed by Angus R. Shamal. Free download here.

Tags: cool finds, design, fonts, typography by steve
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‘You can’t go wrong with a bit of Johnny Cash.’

Colin Evoy Sebestyen’s Futura Animated – motion-ready Futura recreated as a LiveFont. Technical details here.

Tags: design, fonts, music, typography by steve
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Svend Smital’s Super Grotesk used on the cover of Brendan I. Koerner’s Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II.

Found via The Book Cover Archive

Tags: design, fonts, publication design, typography by steve
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‘My father gave me some magazines from the 1920s and 1930s’

Hannes von Döhren’s Brandon Grotesque, influenced by early geometric types – available in six weights with true italics.

One of TDC’s 2011 award winners. Available thru HvD Fonts.

Tags: design, design history, fonts, typography by steve
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Dmitriy Antropov’s final project was a Gill Sans maze, hand crafted from foam.

After we tried to actually do the maze (and failed), Dmitriy reached down and carefully removed a small partition – near the bottom of the a – and we were able to complete.

Tags: design, education, fonts, typography by steve
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