The Big Caption
Original image, here Noted on kottke.org, The Big Caption is an irreverent companion to The Boston Globe’s Big Picture website. Essentially, it takes some often fairly serious news photography and...
View ArticleMasashi Kawamura’s ‘T’ shirts
Baskerville, 3980 pt Masashi Kawamura has designed a range of ‘T’ shirts inspired by the silhouettes of five famous typefaces. Baskerville, 3980 pt Masashi Kawamura has designed a range of ‘T’ shirts...
View ArticleType Annual: Final (Final) Deadline
Since it seems to be a busy time for all, we have added a few days to the final entry deadline for the Type Annual to help you get your submissions in. You now have until November 17 to submit. Please...
View ArticleType for tattoos
Argentinian type designer Alejandro Paul ‘s latest face, Piel Script (piel, pronounced pee-yell, is the Spanish word for skin) has been specially developed for use by tattoo artists… The typeface has...
View ArticleNew typeface: Bella from Face37
British designer Rick Banks of Face37 has just released his latest typeface, Bella, designed, he tells us, in the classical French Didot style, but based on letterforms by Herb Lubalin, John Pistilli...
View ArticleSurf, sounds and serifs
Set to take place from midday to midnight on Friday, September 2 at The Hague Harbour, (The Netherlands’ premier surf spot, shown above) Now We Are Talking is a new one day type festival with a...
View ArticleWeb Font Awards
Entries are now open for the second annual Web Font Awards, the scheme set up by Monotype Imaging to recognise the outstanding use of type on websites This year’s grand prize for both the Judges’...
View ArticleTrochut’s Trojan Wallpaper* typeface
Wallpaper* magazine’s forthcoming September issue will sport a new typeface created specially by illustrator and typographer Alex Trochut … Entitled Trojan, Trochut’s bespoke caps-only typeface has...
View ArticleSalford Type Foundry
Set up by the University of Salford ‘s graphic design students and lecturer Tim Isherwood, the Salford Type Foundry is an online repository for type designed by students from Salford and beyond… “The...
View ArticleVirusFonts release Doctrine
Doctrine , the latest typeface from Jonathan Barnbrook’s VirusFonts , found its first outing on the sleeve of David Bowie’s new album, The Next Day (above). Doctrine, the latest typeface from Jonathan...
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