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Type Tour Photos

Type Tour Photos

For those of you who missed this weekend’s typographic walking tour that Tobias led for AIGA/NY, designer Karen Horton has uploaded a Flickr set containing some of the highlights. There are a couple of treasures here that aren’t to be missed,... 

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The One Ill Building

The One Ill Building

When I first saw the banner unfurled on Sixth Avenue, I figured The One Ill Building was the Beastie Boys’ first foray into urban planning. (Long overdue, if you ask me: if Jade Jagger can be an architect’s muse , why not the King Ad-Rock?)... 

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A Treasury of Hollywood Lettering

A Treasury of Hollywood Lettering

Lettering buffs and cinephiles alike may enjoy this lovely Flickr set containing final frames of classic films. Lettering buffs and cinephiles alike may enjoy this lovely Flickr set containing final frames of classic films. Romantically, these hearken... 

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Oakleaf: Behind the Scenes

Oakleaf: Behind the Scenes

Kathy Willens, Associated Press The Associated Press has posted a slideshow that accompanies the article about us, which charts the development of our typeface for The Nature Conservancy. You’ll find it in the AP’s “multimedia”... 

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Oakleaf: Glyphs Gone Wild

Oakleaf: Glyphs Gone Wild

This weekend, 107 news outlets around the world picked up this AP story about the custom typeface we designed for one of our favorite organizations, The Nature Conservancy. “What it looked like,” writes journalist Erin McClam, “was... 

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Adventures in Kerning

Adventures in Kerning

For most, travel is about discovering new cultures, exotic foods, and beautiful landscapes. And we’re all for that, certainly. But for type designers, the secret fun of going abroad is watching a new language in action, with its own particular... 

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Time Traveler?

Time Traveler?

Except in the most conservative of settings, there’s nothing unusual about freely mixing serifs and sans serifs in text. This technique might still be unexpected in a novel, or in the main text of a newspaper, but otherwise it’s a familiar... 

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Gotham Now 100% Batman-Compliant

Gotham Now 100% Batman-Compliant

Oh come on. People have been trying to make this headline work for years. Working on a book for DC Comics last year, our friend Mike Essl encountered two non-standard accents in the name of bat-nemesis R?’s al Gh?l : an a-macron, and a u-macron.... 

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Reconstructing Harry

Reconstructing Harry

One of the best things about the type community is the way in which attitudes seem to transcend its generations. It’s heartening to be at a professional event, and see that the exciting new idea that’s being embraced by art school undergrads... 

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Eight Screenings; Five Degrees

Eight Screenings; Five Degrees

The New York premiere of Helvetica sold out so quickly that Tobias and I almost didn’t get seats, and we’re in the film. The New York premiere of Helvetica sold out so quickly that Tobias and I almost didn’t get seats, and we’re... 

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