Tag Archives: typography

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…

Type Desk Reference

 It’s rare to find a contemporary book with such clarity which details the details of typography. This book serves as a handy desktop reference book yet is chocked full of details for a more in-depth study of typography.

14 Web Design Cheat Sheets

 This article provides a very useful list of downloadable cheat sheets for Photoshop, Adobe Tool Cheats (useful in multiple Adobe products), CSS and more. If you’re a web designer, or any designer who uses Adobe products (and who doesn’t), these…

Life & Times of Paul Rand

 Lovingly executed and chocked full of features, the new paul-rand.com offers a very thorough gallery of this master designers work (including hard-to-find prototypes and fabric designs), an historical timeline of the designer’s work, and thoughts from this 20th century master.

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…