Jean François Porchez

Our good friend Jean Fran?ois Porchez is the subject of this month’s Creative Characters interview . He also has very recently released a number of new faces at MyFonts, some of which are reworked and expanded OTF versions of older typefaces. These... 

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Designers Accord Chicago Town Hall

Designers Accord is calling its first Chicago Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, August 19th, to be hosted by Gravitytank at their offices in River North. The theme: Elephants in the room Designers Accord is calling its first Chicago Town Hall meeting... 

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An Apple Pie. Literally!

The sum of two passions makes this delight possible. A group of techie lovers of cooking created a way of making an apple pie with the Apple logotype simulating a Mac Mini. The sum of two passions makes this delight possible. A group of techie lovers... 

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The Future of Font Searching

The future of font searching may be based on an interactive application such as the one in the video above . It can easily help you find a typeface for a project in a collection of several thousand fonts The future of font searching may be based on... 

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Loopy Solutions

Many internet moons ago, way back in the twentieth century, it used to be that you could only register top level domains (.com, .net, or .org) with a single company, Network Solutions , and not for the bargain price of $12 each 2-year period you can... 

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Help democracy!

Apologies to our regular readers for the slow down in posts lately, this has primarily been because of the website shown above Democracy . As you will hopefully be aware, this is the exhibition that we are producing as part of the North East Design Festival,... 

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Underline Studio – Update

The clever girls and boys at Toronto’s Underline Studio have updated their site, since I was last there. The clever girls and boys at Toronto’s Underline Studio have updated their site, since I was last there. Always well worth a look. ... 

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Design by Music

Design by Music . Love the site, love the work. Design by Music. Love the site, love the work. The rest is here: Design by Music ... 

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Pre-order Objectified

Pre-order you copy of Gary Hustwit’s Objectified on DVD now and get a free Tote bag designed by Build . A limited-edition version of the DVD will be announced August 10. Pre-order you copy of Gary Hustwit’s Objectified on DVD now and get a free... 

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Behind Typeradio

We recently got a note from Blocter who just uploaded a short video/interview with the people behind Typeradio – the very cool radio channel (podcast) on type & design. We recently got a note from Blocter who just uploaded a short video/interview... 

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