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The types of Jean Jannon at the Imprimerie royale

The types of Jean Jannon at the Imprimerie royale

It is well known that the ‘Garamond’ types, of which the use was revived at the Imprimerie nationale, Paris, during the 20th century, were based on some that had been cast from a set of early matrices for three sizes that were known as the caractères... 

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Core77 Design Award 2011: 2P Portable Restroom, Student Notable for Products/Equipment

Core77 Design Award 2011: 2P Portable Restroom, Student Notable for Products/Equipment

Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com Designer:... 

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Welcome to the Party: ‘Socializing’ Design

Welcome to the Party: ‘Socializing’ Design

Design discourse often strikes me as analogous to a family get together. It sets out well enough; optimistic with an undercurrent of reconciliation, but it can turn sour Design discourse often strikes me as analogous to a family get together. It sets... 

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Typefoundry 2006 to 2011: a list of contents

Typefoundry 2006 to 2011: a list of contents

This blog is five years old and it has reached a total of 35 posts: not a large number, but some of them are quite substantial essays. Some may be too long, as a correspondent once told me. Anyone who has found the blog useful may wish to have this list... 

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ATypI 2010, Dublin (Part Three)

ATypI 2010, Dublin (Part Three)

One of the few remaining copies of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, currently on display at the National Print Museum , Dublin. Photo by Kunihiko Okano (Shotype). http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-10081006m24sculturefile.mp3 One... 

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RCA SHOW part two

RCA SHOW part two

Here’s the promised second part of our round up of great work spotted at the Roycal College of Art’s  SHOW Two yesterday… Paul Scattergood displayed this series of untitled lenticular images which were, in part, the fruit of his research... 

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RCA: Communication Art & Design degree show

RCA: Communication Art & Design degree show

We went along to the Royal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday. We went along to the Royal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday. There was some great work to be seen; here’s a selection of some of the best bits from the Communication... 

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A few things I’ve learned about typeface design

A few things I’ve learned about typeface design

By Gerry Leonidas Teaching on a postgraduate course feels very much like a spiral: the annual repetition of projects, each a vehicle for a journey of education and discovery for the student, blurs into cyclical clouds of shapes, paragraphs, and personalities.... 

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Jan Chipchase (again) on the "Rise of the Superfakes"

Jan Chipchase (again) on the "Rise of the Superfakes"

Even though we just blogged him a couple of days ago, we’re putting the spotlight back on globe-trotting Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase for a brief moment, to draw some eyes to a completely fascinating series of observations on the future of fakes,... 

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Sheplers

Sheplers

Founded over 100 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, Sheplers Western Wear holds the title of being “the world’s largest western store.” I frequently pass the flagship store when traveling along Highway 54. The blocky slab serif letters that... 

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