From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Beautiful Booze (and Some Things That Don’t Sell Themselves)

January 31, 2009

Celebrating The Very Best In Package Design. LovelyPackage.com is one of those sites that seems to get everything just right.The contributing editors have a real eye for content, the pages are clean, the posts are concise, and they’re the only design centric site I can think of that features notes below each post linking users [...]

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Shepard Fairey Tags A Most Hallowed Wall

January 25, 2009

The National Portrait Gallery Welcomes It’s Newest Addition After years of being the very definition of anti-establishment, slippery street artist turned political poster-boy Shepard Fairey tops off a year of dizzying exposure with an invitation to the National Gallery where his iconic HOPE illustration will find it’s permanent home. It has been incredibly interesting to [...]

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The Rebranding of the New York Philharmonic

January 25, 2009

Paula Scher Gambles (and Wins) With Circular Uppercase Italics. This new mark from Pentagram’s Paula Scher is sure to be both controversial and a lightning rod for typophile debate. I have to admit that my first reaction was one of blinding surprise and it took more than a few seconds to get past the blatant [...]

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Brush Up On Your Bembo

January 22, 2009

iLT’s “Rather Difficult” Font Game Is About to Test Your Type IQ A visit to Graphic Designer and writer John Boardley’s I Love Typography site is as much a Sunday afternoon tradition for me as watching the Cleveland Browns blow 4th quarter leads. I settle into a comfy chair, turn on some football, pop the [...]

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Ffffound!

January 21, 2009

Next Gen Image Bookmarking Finds a Home Ffffound.com is a project so simple and pure in its motivation, so perfect in its execution, that those who frequent this site (myself included) can’t be sure how fundamentally its presence affects our perception of visual trends and the extent to which its images penetrate our own work. [...]

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I Am NOT A Paper Cup

January 11, 2009

Just had my first cup of coffee out of my new reuseable to-go cup. A design reminiscent of Anya Hindmarch’s “I am not a plastic bag“, the double walled porcelain “I am not a paper cup…” from designer James Burgess is a great idea, perfectly executed. The silicone lid has a nice tight seal, and [...]

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This Old House Gets A New Home

January 11, 2009

Delaware based type foundry, design studio and purveyor of all things fancy, House Industries has just revamped their website. Whilst roaming about their new digs, be sure to pick up a Cast Iron Ampersand or at least a few Kern stickers (handy for the next time you walk past that storefront with the criminal letter [...]

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Typophile 4: A Film Festival In Review

January 6, 2009

The FontFeed just posted an awesome review and some highlights from last September’s Typophile Film Fest 4. Check it out here… lest you incur the fury of “The Hundred Hands of Garamond”!

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Objectify Me: Beautiful Things That Do Beautiful Things

January 6, 2009

If there is anyone left that has not yet seen Helvetica, please stop reading this post, go here and move it to the top of your queue. Filmaker Gary Hustwit has shifted his focus from the divisive sans serif to something we can all get behind. Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. [...]

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Type Is Art: I Saught The Serif

January 4, 2009

TypeIsArt.com is the brainchild of Susanne Cetha & Terje Vist of Silo Design Inc. It’s an interactive art project that encourages users to play with small crops of the Stern Pro letterforms. This site is a ton of fun, and I found the gallery of saved user art to be wildly varied and often beautiful. [...]

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