Steve Jobs talked a lot about fonts and their importance to people when he created the original Mac computer. We may not really even see the fonts, but we do have an experience of them.
Simon Garfield | Posted 11.07.2011
It's a godawful small affair, typography, especially these days with those tiny images you get when you buy an album track on iTunes. The joy of speculating about what an intricately designed and carefully chosen set of letters may reveal about the innards have long gone.
Posted 10.11.2011
Helvetica changes everything. Or, at least that's the theory behind Brazilian design factory NOONO's fantastically picturesque Tumblr 'Try Helvetica.'...
Posted 09.18.2011
We just caught wind of this via NYMag's Vulture, and we can't stop laughing. This stop-motion animation by Joe Hollier brings the beloved McSweeney's ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Designers, visual artists, and art directors alike all know the importance of good fonts; they are crucial, sneakily underestimated, and can repel or ...
salon.com | Cary Tennis | Posted 05.25.2011
On the subject of fonts (or, typefaces, to use the more technically accurate term), feelings often run high. People have their favorites, for reasons ...
Wallpaper* Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011
With their 'International Typographic Style' - defined by its clean lines and asymmetric layouts - the Swiss blazed a trail in the world of graphic de...
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
People have become more aware about the impact of fonts because of computers, but the power of a typeface is still largely subliminal, he argues. Mr B...
The New York Times | PETER WAYNER | Posted 05.25.2011
What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...
Soren Petersen | Posted 01.29.2012