This past weekend my family and I all gathered in Washington, DC to experience some Cherry Blossom Festival excitement. I didn’t quite make it to the acutal festival though, as I opted for the life altering event of visiting the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
About a month ago Adam Garcia turned me on to the book Antique Packaging. I picked up a copy at The Strand, and it’s been getting me all excited for summer to get here so I can begin hording other people’s graphic junk from flea markets. In anticipation of the warm weather (who knew it [...]
No Days Off is a design studio in London. They do some really nice, simple, sophisticated design work with pristine typography. The thing I like about them most is their shop, where they sell prints with some witty lines. Maybe we should order some prints for the office, I know an Executive Creative Director who [...]
Here ye here ye! The world of design hath a new font resource! A medieval “portfolio”, dubbed “The Macclesfield Alphabet Book”, was recently uncovered from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield in England, where it had sat on the shelves since 1750. This pattern book contains not only 14 decorative alphabet styles, but intricately [...]
The ubiquity of Helvetica as a clean, modern answer to post industrialism has not overshadowed the necessity of your existence for the everyday working person. Salud. Nazdarovia. Probst. Here’s to another 100 years of Hobo.
Web typography has been a bit of a thorn in the side of the designer for a while. While there is nothing online that will offer the satisfaction of a Saturday Night with a bottle of whiskey and a pirate copy of InDesign (ahh, memories of Christmas in the Tennyson house), there is hope yet [...]