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• The library of the Gutenberg Museum February 28, 2010
  By Dan ReynoldsI. Introduction Large or small, letters seem to inhabit their own universe. Re-arrangeable in any combination, they can spell out all conceivable messages, be they poetic, bureaucratic, or anything in between. But sometimes a text is just about its letters themselves, not an object to be read, but one to be looked at. Type [...] Visit the Font […]
• Designing Armitage February 17, 2010
  By James PuckettThis is the doorway to The Claremount, an apartment building in Manhattan. I think that it was built in the 1890s. Those letters over the door just reached out and grabbed me from across the street and I had a typeface coming on.The Claremount, 229–31 East 12 St, New York. I had been studying [...] Visit the Font Game web site. Designing Armi […]
• Art and Text February 2, 2010
  Reviewed by James PuckettArtist Joseph Kosuth’s 1965 work One and Three Chairs presented a static composition that represents an idea three ways. It was heady stuff, addressing what conceptual artists saw as a crisis of reconciling the realization of concepts with the concepts. One of the three material representations in One and Three Chairs [...] Visit the […]
• My favourite fonts of 2009 January 20, 2010
  But will it fly?Perhaps the most difficult part in compiling this list is not what to include, but what to leave out. There are, then, many other typefaces that should be in this list, but aren’t. Perhaps some of your favourites from 2009 coincide with mine; perhaps they don’t — I’d love to hear about [...] Visit the Font Game web site. My favourite fonts of […]
• Twenty-ten type January 4, 2010
  The Week in Type Hoping that everyone is feeling refreshed, invigorated and inspired after Christmas and New Year. That we are now in 2010 is arbitrary, but it is at the same time a marker, the end of something, and the beginning of something else; a kind of armistice, an opportunity to dump all the bad, [...] Visit the Font Game web site. Twenty-ten type […]
• The Making of Vesper December 14, 2009
  By Rob Keller Vesper was developed over the course of almost three years. For this article, I’ve divided the process into two stages: #1 during my studies at the University of Reading; and #2 After Reading. Hopefully through this highly-condensed-yet-still-rather-wordy account of this project you will learn some interesting bits regarding my first major type […]
• Our own alphabet December 13, 2009
  One Hundred Days I don’t usually do these single-item posts, but just had to share this. An alphabet created using items from the Mitchell Library’s broad and eclectic collections—with wonderful results. Some of the letters are accompanied by videos explaining the origins of their constituent parts.In celebration of their centenary. Thanks to @ashmorrisVisit […]
• Graphic Masterpieces of Yakov G. Chernikhov: The Collection of Dmitry Y. Chernikhov December 8, 2009
  Reviewed by James Puckett Yakov G. Chernikov (1889–1951), was a Russian artist, designer, and architect learned in classical and modern styles. As a draftsman he was on par with Piranesi and Rembrandt; his most forward-thinking drawings resemble the style of Yoshitaka Amano. This combination of knowledge and skill made him one of the most accomplished Russia […]
• Wishing on a typeface December 4, 2009
  By Nadine Chahine Nadine Chahine is a type designer for Linotype GmbH, where she is also Branding & CI Manager, and Arabic Specialist. She designed Frutiger Arabic with Adrian Frutiger and Palatino Arabic with Hermann Zapf, for which she won the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the TDC. Today I’m excited to announce that [...] Visit the Font […]
• The Right Type of Education November 19, 2009
  By Abi Huynh Last year Mathieu Christe and Berton Hasebe wrote a very thorough article detailing the general day to day of the Type and Media masters program. With this article we hope to outline an historical overview of the course and provide a brief look at the final project typefaces from the 08/09 class. Type Design [...] Visit the Font Game web site. T […]