In 1930 Jan Tschichold describes a new typeface in the publication “Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandels”, that “can be drawn by everyone without typographic knowledge”. Sebastian Nagel from Austria extended the original drawing to 7 weights...
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Paula Scher talks about her paintings and if she could make a choice between painting and design. Why she paints only in all caps and her favourite letters
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Paula Scher talks about...
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Paula Scher talks about her rituals and superstitions, fears and inspiration.
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Paula Scher talks about her rituals and superstitions, fears and inspiration. How she accepts change...
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Yesterday, our 1,000th Facebook friend became a fan of H&FJ. Won’t you join us? Fellow typographers have joined us on Facebook to start conversations, share links of interest, and post photographs of things made with H&FJ fonts.
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Cinema Tuesdays is proud to present the U.S. Premiere of Part of the Weekend Never Dies at Nike Sportswear at The Montalbán on Tuesday, October 28 in association with Anthem Magazine. Directed by Partizan director Saam Farahmand and Soulwax together,...
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The latest beta and the nightly builds of Firefox 3.1 now support webfonts. Here is a sneak peek at the features and the differences to Safari’s @font-face support. Render Quality With the new render engine, introduced in Firefox 3.0, the quality of...
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Right: Ioannis Aurelius Augurellus, published by Aldus Manutius. Venice, 1505. Last week I mentioned the atomic pen , which scientists used to construct some awfully tiny letters one atom at a time.
Right: Ioannis Aurelius Augurellus, published by...
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Our own Andy Clymer has returned from a trip out west with some fine photos of Las Vegas’s infamous neon boneyard. A project of the Neon Museum , a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of one of the nation’s great lettering...
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Kenya Hara continues to tell us why he became a graphic designer, why and how important design is to the world and its effect on us. What would Kenya Hara do if he wasn’t a designer. Finally he reveals to us why designers wear black.
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Kenya Hara discusses his interest in the concept of emptiness and the relation to the Shinto religion. The haptic qualities of his work and how technology gives us the power to expand our senses
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