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July 12, 2007

Changing the rules of Typography

Live Ink have developed an interesting take on typographic formatting using what they call Visual-syntactic formatting" or VSTF. Is this the new typographic era?

Typographica's Favourite Fonts for 2006

Typographica lists 23 of their favourite fonts for 2006

May 30, 2007

Frost Design

Frost Design have redone their website with lots of good examples of their work.

May 23, 2007

Graphic Equaliser

Graphic designer and stlye icon Peter Saville talks to the Scotsman about some of his more personal experiences since he designed record sleeves for Joy Division

May 17, 2007

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface

Michael Bierut at Design Observer gives 13 reasons for picking the right font for the job at hand.

April 12, 2007

Blue Vertigo

A good resource for stock photography, fonts, vector clip art, icons, photoshop brushes.... it's all at Blue Vertigo

April 04, 2007

Neue Haas Grotesk

International Herald Tribune takes a look at that great font Helvetica: The little typeface that leaves a big mark.

April 01, 2007

50 years of Helvetica

New MOMA exhibition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffmann’s design Helvetica. 50 Years of Helvetica April 6, 2007–March 31, 2008

March 29, 2007

Logo design

Over 300 links related to logo design, ranging from articles on the importance of logo design, file formats, colour and typography - Logo design guide

March 20, 2007

Constructed Behaviours

Some nice illustration from Constructed Behaviours

March 14, 2007

John Maeda

Wired talk to designer John Maeda about his future direction

February 13, 2007

Dynamic Corporate Logos

The new corporate logo: Dynamic and changeable are all the rage

February 08, 2007

Pornotypographic

From the people that put typo in the word pornotypographic - Taylor Lane wins a gold at the Epica Awards for their typographic girly calendar (thanks Fletch!)

January 19, 2007

Book covers

Lots of well designed book covers to peruse - Book Covers

Logo Design Trends for 2007

11 trends that will define logo design for 2007

January 18, 2007

Movie Title Sequences

Forget the film watch the title sequence. Submarine Channel have started an online resource of some of the best film title sequences.

November 14, 2006

Fonts for Web 2.0

A good selection of fonts to use for that 'Web 2.0' project

November 09, 2006

Type Selector

If you are used to using the pantone colour guide, then this Thames & Hudson Type Selector will make your font searches much much easier.

October 26, 2006

Steven Heller

Some interesting work, interviews, podcasts and books from Steven Heller - designer/educator/author...

September 14, 2006

Photoshop brushes

A free resource for all your photoshop brush needs - get brushes

September 11, 2006

Wirefox

A display font looking for a use - Wirefox

Pantone fashion colours, Spring 2007

If you follow colour trends, Pantone have released their choices for Spring 2007

viaLetter

A gift idea if you have something special to say, or if you like typography - viaLetter

July 18, 2006

Urban Fonts

Free Mac and PC fonts and dingbats from UrbanFonts

July 10, 2006

Chris Erickson

Some good looking design in a fluid flash website - Chris Erickson

July 06, 2006

Jonathan Barnbrook Interview

Ping Mag interview Jonathan Barnbrook about responsibilities in design

June 21, 2006

Verlag

"From out of the six typefaces originally created for the Guggenheim Museum comes Verlag, a family of 30 sans serifs that brings a welcome eloquence to the can-do sensibility of pre-war Modernism." - Verlag from Hoefler and Frere-Jones

June 20, 2006

TypeNavigator

An interesting application to help track down the font you need for your latest project - TypeNavigator

June 19, 2006

What would you do differently?

Some retrospective thoughts from David Carson, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut and others - 'What would you do differently?'

World Cup logo design

Erik Spiekermann (founder of MetaDesign), disects the design behind the Soccer World Cup logo and mascot - and he doesn't like what he sees.

June 16, 2006

Emigre re-designs

Type house and ex design magazine Emigre have recently updated/redesigned their website

T1 World Cup

24 designers from around the world are taking part in the T-Shirt world cup. For one month only designs from Stefan Sagmeister, Erik Spiekermann and others are available to view and buy - T1 World Cup

June 15, 2006

The Playground

A typographic letterplay

DQ Books

An interesting collection of illustration work in a faux book interface - DQ Books

June 12, 2006

Photoshop stencil tutorial

A quick tutorial on how to make a black and white (graffiti) stencil from a colour photograph.

June 09, 2006

If you love fonts

Fontlover

June 07, 2006

Free Icons

If you are looking for icons to use in a website or application then here is a list for you to peruse

June 05, 2006

Spec work

Michael Bierut (NY partner at Pentagram) has a look at the ugly nature of spec work

June 01, 2006

Fonts galore

Choose between these pixel fonts or these 9800 free fonts

May 25, 2006

Yale Graphic Design MFA 2006

A flickr stream from the 2006 Yale Graphic Design MFA show

May 16, 2006

We are the image makers

Issue three is out for the monthly online publication that showcases work by Australian designers, artists and illustrators - watim

May 15, 2006

Fonts on Football Jerseys

Linotype take a topical look at the fonts that are used on some of the worlds top football jerseys

May 11, 2006

Typecast

A new documentary looking at the history and direction of Swiss design - Typecast

April 28, 2006

Grandpeople

Fashionable and stylish graphic design work from Norway - Grandpeople - via

April 21, 2006

Jonathon Barnbrook

Typographer Jonathon Barnbrook is interviewed by Icograda. They discuss his new font family 'Bourgeois', his recent trip to Korea and the role politics plays in his work - via

March 23, 2006

25 Best free fonts

25 best free fonts - a good selection made by Vitaly Friedman

March 20, 2006

Linotype FontExplorer

Linotype have just released their new free font management tool FontExplorer
via AustralianinFront

March 17, 2006

The elements of Style Manuals

A very good insight into Style Manuals

The logos of web 2.0

If you are developing a new online application and you're needing some help with visually defining your brand - then check out Font Shops 'The Logos of Web 2.0'

March 10, 2006

A practical guide to web typography

A valuable resource for getting the most out of typography on the internet

Visual Dictionary

If typography is your thing you may enjoy signage a little more than most - The Visual Dictionary

February 13, 2006

Earth - graphically

A graphic look at the state of the world

February 10, 2006

The Graphic Imperative

International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965-2005 The Graphic Imperative

January 09, 2006

Top fonts for 2005

Typographica look at some of their favourite fonts from 2005

December 16, 2005

Visualising the stockmarket


An interesting graphical way to view the Nikkei

November 22, 2005

Japanese graphic designer Sugiura Kohei

Tsuno Kaitaro from The Book & The Computer, talks with Japanese graphic designer Sugiura Kohei about Discovering an Asian Grammar of Design - via core77

November 08, 2005

Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton's site is a nice little on-line companion to her book 'Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students'

October 27, 2005

Print and Play

Readymech - print them out, cut them up and make them into you very own toy - all for free. - via K10K

September 28, 2005

Originality in Logo Design

The new Quark logo is causing some waves/smirks among the design community.

September 22, 2005

FontExplorer X

Linotype have just released their new font management utility 'FontExplorer X' and it's free.

September 15, 2005

An Annotated Manifesto for Growth

Textism look at and comment on Bruce Mau's incomplete manifesto for growth

August 12, 2005

What's in a mark?

Essay followed by a discussion on the role of the logo.

Typography Workshop

Test your kerning skills and learn how to improve your letter spacing technique

August 02, 2005

Gogofrog

Build your own free Flash 3d website where you use the keyboard to navigate - Gogofrog

July 28, 2005

Great Graphic Designers

Where are the great Graphic Designers of the 20th century?

July 04, 2005

Super Deux

Cool, young illustration and design - Super Deux

Helvetica Meditations

Some fun examples of Helvetica in the public space

June 27, 2005

5 simple steps to better typography

Mark Boulton looks at typographic hierarchy (size & weight), the measure, ligatures and hanging punctuation.

June 10, 2005

Font design

Some basic tips on designing your own font

Logo Trends

Graphic Design USA lists the top logo design trends for 2005

June 09, 2005

TypeTalk Fonts

An interesting project where the font controls the content by changing what you type to suit the context of the font.

June 06, 2005

Gwarsh

Some quality Australian design - via dik

Top 100 font downloads

A good list of free fonts to download

Edward Tufte

Essays and writings from the information designer Edward Tufte

May 25, 2005

Logo design

An interview with Lindon Leader, designer of one of the worlds most successful logo's - FedEx

May 17, 2005

ReBrand

The ReBrand awards have recently been presented. ReBrand focuses on re-branding, re-focusing and revitalising of existing brands.

May 12, 2005

Colonel Sanders gets a facelift

Some extra brand development has been going on at KFC recently

April 22, 2005

Crimes against Typography

The story of Avant Garde - Futura was “the typeface of the future.” Helvetica was the typeface of corporate modernism. Avant Garde was the adopted as symbolic of raucous sixties and me-generation seventies.

March 16, 2005

Branding through words

The choice of copy used to sell a product can have as much (if not more) of an effect as the visual.

March 09, 2005

Danceteria

Some interesting flyer design from the 80's New York nightclub

Anti-Alcohol Posters

Some nicely design soviet era anti-alcohol posters

February 24, 2005

FontLeech

A Free Font weblog

February 02, 2005

Thinking with Type

A new typography site

January 20, 2005

3d type

Some interesting experiments in 3d type

January 11, 2005

Colours for 2005

Adam Polselli's 2005 colour forecast - what are the 'in' colours for this year

January 05, 2005

Political Graphics

Some good poster designs with a political stance - check out the list of exhibitions

December 23, 2004

New Fonts

Over at Hydro74

Underware fonts

Some nice fonts

December 20, 2004

Porchez Typofonderie

Nice fonts

December 09, 2004

Fonts

Some nice fonts over at thirstype

The Ends

Some nice visual identity work - via

November 22, 2004

Kontrapunkt

Kontrapunkt was awarded the Danish Design Prize for best typeface and is available for download

November 16, 2004

Building Letters

A limited edition charity design magazine with posters and fonts - worth a look

November 15, 2004

Our Type

Some nice typography

October 22, 2004

Mosaics for Mac OSX

A free software tool for making mosaic images on your mac

October 13, 2004

Quark updates

Quark has announced that they will be releasing version 6.5

October 11, 2004

Good Flag

How to design a good flag

October 01, 2004

Visual Ideology

An experiment where people with particular political beliefs choose an image based on a word presented to them.

September 24, 2004

Style File

A showcase of Australian book illustrators

September 22, 2004

Nice Fonts

Some nice fonts, some free - Mac Rhino Fonts

September 13, 2004

The branding of Polaroid

An interesting article/essay following Polaroid's brand progression.

August 19, 2004

What is Design for?

An interesting discussion where Creative Review editor Patrick Burgoyne asked Rick Poynor and Michael Bierut - What is Design for?

August 16, 2004

Olympukes font

A free pictogram font released by Fontshop and designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus McCallion just in time for the Olympukes

August 10, 2004

Excentro

A nice little shareware tool for creating 'Guilloche' designs on your mac. Guilloche is the ornate line drawings that you see in bank notes and other documents that try to make counterfeiting more difficult.

July 28, 2004

Melbourne Design Festival

The State of Design festival starts in Melbourne today.

July 27, 2004

The Program

A new initiative from the Australian Council - looks good

July 23, 2004

Evostruct

A Paris based design agency - via newstoday

July 22, 2004

Illustration and Poster work

Some nice illustration and poster work from Karen Oxman and Orthographic (via k10k) Misprinted Type and Shail Shah (via DiK)

July 21, 2004

The History of Graphic Design

The History of Graphic Design - 1945 to Present

Corporate Identity Documentation

A new site dedicated to the documentation of Corporate Identity Systems, style guides and corporate design manuals - Corporate Identity Documentation

July 20, 2004

TypoGenerator

Instant typographic madness

July 19, 2004

Saul Bass exhibition opens in London

The Design Museum, London opens a retrospective of the great film typographer Saul Bass

July 16, 2004

Photoshop plugin

If you need to clean up your digital photographs then this new Photoshop plugin from Reindeer Graphics may be just what you are looking for

Origami double CD case

If you're ever in need of storing cds but you only have an A4 piece of paper around - try this

July 15, 2004

Package design

A nice application for designing packaging protoypes - FoldUP!3D

July 13, 2004

Delicato

A fashionable, yet classical serif font - Delicato