Category Archives: typography

When Typography Meets Clay

 An odd combination, if you think about – typography used on bowls, cups and plates. But then you see the works of Asya Palatova of gleena ceramics and see the natural combination.

Wood Type Museum

 Unicorn Graphics has established an on-line museum with an extensive collection of wood type for viewing by the general public. Among the most noted wood type manufacturers in this collection are Wm. H. Page & Co., Vanderburgh, Wells & Co.…

Geometric :: Pattern Fonts

 Containing 100 geometric pattern fonts for Mac and Windows, Geometric is a book which gives designers a mountain of resource material. The book comes with a CD containing the 100 pattern fonts – the most extensive pattern font collection available…

Stihl Ad Campaign – Blown Away

 Kudos to the team at Winsper in Boston for a brilliant ad campaign for Stihl products. Above is one of the magazine ads which is part of the campaign, with great copy highlighting the bad economy. It’s rare in today’s…

Wood Type Collection For Sale

 One of the Typophile folks is selling his stunning collection of wood type blocks. This collection includes an array of unusual fonts, including historic, fancy, gothic and 20th Century modern wood blocks. You don’t find collections this vast very often…

Gallup.com Re-Designed

 Created by Pentagram, the newly re-designed Gallup.com offers well-organized info-bites highlighting, what I would guess are, some of the higher trafficked and requested information Gallup has available. This is an amzing use of typography to create clear and legible bits…

Times Redesign

 On Saturday, January 24, 2009, The Times appeared in its new incarnation. The new broadsheet design (maybe we call it “retro”) harkens to its past and leaves today’s info-byte/tabloid skimmers with something to sink their eye teeth into. Though the…

Shepard Fairey Obama Poster

 Shepard Fairey, the artist behind President Obama’s HOPE iconic art, has released a new Obey poster to commemorate the inauguration. Fairey’s critics have detracted from his style of art, where he works from 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s iconic art and…

Type Desk Reference

 It’s rare to find a contemporary desk reference so complete with details about typography. This book can be ordered on-line here.