To celebrate 40 years in the service of the New York design community AIGA NY throws a once-in-a-lifetime celebration. In collaboration with NYCxDESIGN, the AIGA NY Board of Directors aims to bring together the city’s design community with a party on the 9th of June. A silent auction of sought-after design ephemera donated by some of …
Founded in 2019 by Ning Li, Typology is a Parisian skincare line born from a mission -to demystify the beauty industry with simple, straight-talking transparency. Creating a “radical new skincare brand” is not an easy task, nor is it branding it. Just as the company’s team of health and skincare experts set out to challenge …
Co-presented by Book Arts & Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library the “Type, Money, and Power: The First 5000 Years” Letterform Archive online lecture by designer, educator, and writer Juliette Cezzar is insightful, to say the least. “What do money and power have to do with the form of type? When looking at the history from a global perspective, …
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“If the end of Roe has come as a shock to anyone, that means they haven’t been paying attention” notes influential artist, activist, and feminist Barbara Kruger whose iconic 1989 silk-screen portrait ‘Untitled (Your body is a battleground)’ graces the cover of New York Magazine -aptly updated for what is happening in the USA right …
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This is a call to type! On the occasion of a dual typographic anniversary -60 years ago the font “Forte” was published by the Monotype Corporation, and 25 years ago the font was provided with Microsoft Office applications- this is a global crowdsourcing call for a book and exhibition project celebrating the font and its …
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“Typography doesn’t just make speech visible; it is also a mirror of society, and a reflection of our culture” notes Fontstand’s team in the introduction to its upcoming third International Typography Conference coming to The Hague this September. “As the world becomes increasingly diverse, type and typography engage in a cultural dialogue. The Fontstand conference …
Founded in 2019, Squama is a Munich-based record label with a focus on contemporary forms of jazz accompanied by a rather distinct visual language. Cofounded by Martin Brugger, producer and bass player for the modern jazz quintet Fazer, and Max Schachtner, head of design and founder of the respected design consultancy Daily Dialogue the label …
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It saw the light of day exactly sixty years ago and is arguably Austria’s most successful contribution to type design. We are of course talking about Forte, a bold brush script by graphic artist Karl Reißberger (1915–1983). Literally designed at a kitchen table in post-war Vienna, Forte was produced as a typeface for machine typesetting …
If you are at home and trying to design a Devanagari typeface for the first time, Mota Italic has some useful resources for you! Devanagari Type Design Resources collection at www.motaitalic.com. Indic Type Cooker is a nice way to practice lettering before stating to draw your typeface. Creating a Devanagari Font tutorial in Glyphs can help …
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Launched in 2020 -a year “typographically arresting, with unique potential for puns about visual acuity. But, well, no” because COVID19 – Greenspace’s typographic “legacy project” aka 21 Silver Linings aims to “invert frowns, thaw frozen cockles, and inspire sheer, unadulterated optimism.” “Based on a chat with a client and a piece of advice from the …
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