Typography News

Happy New Year everyone! And, here we go again: it’s the Dutch, with their amazing obliques. Really beautiful work from 1983. It’s not the first time I’ve found these; I also have these. And this.

The 2010 FPO Awards publication is now available as a 248-page book, a PDF download of said book, and a fancy iPad app: here.

2011 was, without doubt, the Year of the Instagram for me. It launched a few months before the end of 2010 but for me it wasn’t until early in ‘11 that I sampled it’s delights. Nearly a year (and…

Right. I can publish this now. My Thought Collective Secret Santa gift to Nat. It was all her idea, the Secret Santa thing, then she uped and finished a few days early so I had to post her’s out….

To end the year on a positive note here are The Best Identities of 2011. As much as I enjoy posting the train wrecks, the Bests are more fun, mostly because my selections tend to generate…

This month’s UX Belfast Book Club book was 101 Things I Learned In Architecture School. It’s not a long book so I’m not going to give too much away except to say it’s brilliant and packed full of…

Without much further introduction — since now you know what to expect from our end of year round-ups — here are The Worst Identities of 2011. Enjoy! Part II: The Best will come next Monday.

Formerly News Magazines, News Life Media is one of Australia’s largest print and online publishers with renown magazine brands like Vogue and GQ. The new logo to reflect the new name was…

They say this is the book that inspired Mad Men. It’s probably true. In fact last year, it was republished with a Mad Man-esque cover to exploit the fact. It was, without doubt, a bloody awful cover….

Salerno is a sea-side city in Campania, Italy. This month the City of Salerno introduced a new “consumer” logo to complement the city’s official seal. The new logo has been designed by Massimo…

I won. FS Clerkenwell, to be precise. If you follow Fontsmith on Twitter you’d have enjoyed their anniversary typocompetition a couple of weeks back. It was simple but tricky at times: throughout the…

The emblem for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio was unveiled this Saturday. It was designed by Tátil, the same firm that designed the Olympics logo. Press release here. Detail of the…

This is a weird one. I’ve been picking this up in our local charity book shop, then putting it down for weeks. It’s that modernist cover. It feels like it’s designed by someone interesting, but…

MediaOcean is a new company that is the result of the merger of Donovan Data Systems Inc and MediaBank LLC. Their combined value is reported at $1.5 billion and together will process $150…

Nice bit of perforated hardboard there. Ideal for, say, a wall of tools. Imagine this: A whole wall, covered in perforated hardboard, proliferated with many hooks and pegs. Each hook or peg…