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Angelina Jolie photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for Vanity Fair.

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‘Can a font change the future? On her first day back at the University, a rogue Professor sets out to avenge her missing husband – and the lost art of ink on paper – by conducting a dangerous lesson on typography. When the Professor’s lecture jumps the rails, we peer into a near future where desperate people search for the tangible in an ever more virtual age.’

Futura, as a play, is an interesting concept. It starts with a history of typography lecture – then weaves in its own story about a paperless future.

But is a type history talk good enough to stand on its own – without a play attached? The NYT thinks so. There’s a lot of cool stuff in type history.

The play closed last week, but here’s a few more details.

Found via H&FJ

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The work of Scott Teplin. More here.

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‘Jean François Porchez was approached at the end of 2009 to create a set of typefaces to relaunch the Conqueror papers collection.’

Jean François Porchez’s beautiful Conqueror fonts are based on some great historical design eras – and are available free via Arjowiggins Creative Papers thru end of March 2012.

The fonts themselves are mostly caps and missing a few punctuation marks – but they also have similar widths, cool alternate characters (such as swashes) and 3D carved versions (as extras) – making them vastly interchangeable. And who knows, since they’re free, maybe they’ll conqueror the design world.

A standard commercial font license applies. Grab em here.

More details here.

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Fontfabric’s free sanserif Hero fonts. Two weights, multiple language support.

Grab em here. Fontfabric has a great section of other freebies too.

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform Zero, live on Letterman. From 2009.

I’ve had this song stuck in my head all week. So I have to share.

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Pictured: Cap Z from Penabico, a new font based freely on ‘the copperplate script styles to be found in the Universal Penman.’

Available at MyFonts. And currently trending as one of their best sellers.

More detail here.

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Layered wonders: Zooth dimensional typefaces.

Snag the individual components (as fonts) here.

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Leo in Lanvin

British Vogue takes a look at astrology.

Photography by Tim Gutt, styling by Kate Phelan, sets built by Shona Heath and at the center of it all, model Siri Tollerod.

More signs here.

Virgo in Christopher Kane

Aries in Alexander McQueen

Capricorn in Chloe

Sagittarius in Givenchy

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‘Kirk and Spock are wearing Meadham Kirchoff and Alexander McQueen; Kirk has an additional Shipley & Halmos jacket and that black piece over Spock’s dress is from Gucci. I think the redshirts are all wearing Fendi and Miss Sixty.’

Star Trek re-fashioned by Annie Wu.

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‘The best creative minds ask a wide variety of questions as a part of the creative process’ –Dave Cox

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