Cities and their typographic associations

In this series of videos for the EF International Language Centers the director Gustav Johansson captures the stories of three different students who travel abroad to study a new language. Everywhere they go they communicate in the local language... 

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SOPA: friend or foe to the creative community?

Try to look something up on Wikipedia today and you will be met with a black page. The English language version of the site is down in protest over SOPA and PIPA, two pieces of legislation that it believes will “fatally damage the free and open... 

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An Interview with Verena Gerlach

By Ivo Gabrowitsch & Christoph Koeberlin After more than 10 years, Verena Gerlach has revised and extended her FF Karbid super family, an interpretation of German storefront lettering from the early 1900s. By Ivo Gabrowitsch & Christoph Koeberlin After... 

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Sign Here

Only one of three mobile telecommunication service providers in Argentina, Personal , whose parent company is giant Telecom Argentina, has 18 million customers. (Sorry, don’t have much else to say about it). Earlier this month, Personal introduced... 

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Type Be Positive: Kickstart the Ludlow Project

It’s easy to say that letterpress printing leaves an impression, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about the process, which dates back to Gutenberg’s original invention in 1440, is that much of the equipment in use today dates back to... 

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IBM THINK Exhibit: a Review

This post was written by Mimi Rojanasakul . She is an artist and designer based in New York, currently pursuing her MFA in Communications Design at Pratt Institute . Say hello or follow her @mimiosity . This post was written by Mimi Rojanasakul. She... 

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10 Great 3-D Typography Videos

If you are a fan of typography , you will love the Internet. There are plenty of examples of amazing 3-D typography videos all over the web, most offering inspiration to the designers who love to see others’ works. If you are a fan of typography... 

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Strata NY 2011 Data Visualizations – The Subjectivity of Fact

This post was written by Mimi Rojanasakul . She is an artist and designer based in New York, currently pursuing her MFA in Communications Design at Pratt Institute . Say hello or follow her @mimiosity This post was written by Mimi Rojanasakul. She... 

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Core77 Design Award 2011: Design Play, Student Winner for Strategy/Research

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 FEATURE... 

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ATypI 2011 Reykjavík

By Dan Reynolds Founded in 1957, the Association Typographique Internationale ( ATypI ) is a worldwide organization dedicated to type design and typographic-related themes. Reykjavík/Iceland hosted this year’s annual ATypI conference By Dan Reynolds Founded... 

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