The working title is type nuts (type-related news). First is a news site that’s like Digg but just for type-related news if it ain’t type, then it’s not news. I have a number of type-related plans for 2008. Always interesting to know how type designers feel about the use and abuse of their typefaces. There’s also a short piece on Erik Spiekermann’s blog that I like. And here’s a little taste of his rather gorgeous Feel Script, Well, I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned his web site before, so here it is:. You may have spotted Alejandro in the comments to that article. In my interview with type designer Neil Summerour, he mentioned the work of Alejandro Paul. Neither font is a masterpiece of type design, but they are fun, and they work well in this context. The Aqua Issue set in Teardrop, with Canstop used for titling–both freebies from Dafont. I don’t like that drop-shadow under the text on the cover, but overall…nice. Some interesting text treatments inside too. I also like this cover from the PDF magazine, Blanket. Many thanks to the eagle-eyed Manuel Martensen for sending me the link. Anyway, I wonder what Claude Garamond would make of these? And what about the other Garamonds that don’t bear the name? Reading this was the highlight of my week–not sure what that reveals about me and my life. I can’t describe how impressed I am with this article–it’s beautifully written too. No doubt there are many Garamond fans among you but which one? Adobe’s Garamond, Simoncini, Stempel, ITC?īarney has very kindly taken the time to translate the entire article into English: Garamond v Garamond–Physiology of a Typeface. Thanks to for the link How would you like your Garamond, Ma’am?Ī really quite wonderful article, Garamond vs Garamond–physiologie d’un caractère typographique, by Peter Gabor, taking a closer look at the different flavours of Garamond. I really like these new 30-second spot commercials for British Airways. Well, of course, that’s because iLT didn’t come into existence until that month it certainly feels as though we’ve been here a lot longer than that.Ī little audiovisual stimulation to get us started. I recently received an email from a reader pointing out that the links to my archives, prior to August 2007 are missing. It has certainly been an interesting year.
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