Archive for the ‘Typography’ Category

No Days Off

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 [...]

The Mac(clesfield)Book – The Designer’s Choice Since 1500

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 [...]

Happy Birthday Hobo!

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

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 [...]

Yard Signs 2009: Yard’s Revenge

Ah, the irony in this post will be layered on more thick than special sauce on a Schmitter. Regular readers will by now be well aware of my deep-seeded contempt for yard signs, which I’ve now touched on in not one but two posts in the still nascent stages of this blog.  So imagine my surprise when [...]

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