Kirsty bought me Geometric, for being good last week. It’s gorgeous and I keep sniffing the fresh print and smiling. Printed on heavy matte stock, it features an embossed cover that’s wrapped in an American-style poster and bound with a distinctive rhythm technique. The colourful and monochrome patterns are enough to get any designer dribbling …
Browser support for typography is a bothersome process and the cause of much debate, head scratching and occasional out bursts of frustration. So when we heard that the legend Jon Tan of Omni TI and local user experience super brain Richard Rutter were doing a Skillswap talk on typography, we made sure our bums were …
Looks like the Royal Mail has done something right, instead of just loosing our mail all the time. Those clever Royal Mail types have come up with the British Design Classics series - 10 tiptop stamps, commemorating some classic British designs. So now the Royal Mail will look cool, as they loose the parcel.
The design …
The world for type junkies just got a load better. FontShop Berlin has announced the release of Fontshuffle, a type specimen catalog for iphones and the ipod touch.
So, with our type junky hands trembling with anticipation, we downloaded, installed and got a font fix and it was good and really bad too. First of all, …
A lovely little blog compiling images of our great capitals shop fronts. Beautiful, sad and enough creative spelling and typographic disasters to make even our most hard line type junkies smile. Of course, not all of London looks like this, some parts I hear are getting electricity and running water soon. www.londonshopfronts.com
Here at Brightenup, we all adored Helvetica, the feature-length film about typography, graphic design, visual culture and anything Helvetica. But why make a film about Helvetica I here you cry? Well, for starters it’s everywhere. You’ve probably already enjoyed a little Helvetica today. It probably informed you which train to catch or tried to sell …
Most designers use typography to present information in a rather static way — after all, it has to be read by users. However, now thanks to Face37 it doesn’t have to be like that any longer and typography junkies can really play with fonts.
Type Trumps rocks and is simply genius. Different typefaces are attributed with …
Mistakes. Blunders. Faux pas. Booboos. Slip-ups and hiccups. Call them what you will, but it's all part of the process. We know that brilliant ideas come from those not so great ones. That's why we started our now famous brilliant ideas sessions. Read on_
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