Typography

Teen Mags And Drugs: 11 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Ad Art, Psychedelia, Art, Advertising, Graphic Design, Ideas That Changed Graphic Design, Typography, Slideexpand, Culture News

On bus stops, in magazines, and on TV: they're color schemes and shapes and ideas that we're exposed to every day. We take them for granted, these ima...

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Comic Sans, Bones, Super Furniture: It's Design Thursday

Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Corporate Logos, Video, Anneke Short, Design Thursdays, Constantin Burke, Design, Typography, Logos, Faith-Ladd, Arts News

From hilariously snarky typographic-obsessed posters to 5-year-olds who know more about major logos than we do, this week's edition of HuffPost Arts' ...

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9 Fun Word Games

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Word as Image, Typography, Ji Lee, Word Games, Language Games, Language, Video, Facebook, Books News

Facebook's Creative Director Ji Lee has an unusual habit: he stares at words until he can find their meanings hidden inside. The result is a witty, pl...

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Typography According To The Beatles, Amy Winehouse And Coldplay

Simon Garfield | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: The Beatles, Album Design, Pop Music, David Bowie, Typography, Music, Amy Winehouse, Album Covers, Fonts, Slidepollajax, Books News

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.

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Microsoft Kills Its E-Reader

Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Ereaders, Kindle, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft, Tablet PC, Typography, Microsoft Reader, Windows Phone, Ebooks, Books News

Flickr photo by bodycoach2 Microsoft has announced today that it will be ending its e-reader software, called Microsoft Reader, 11 years after it...

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Why You Should Care About Typography

Co. Design | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Typography History, Typography, Typefaces, Books News

I have a confession to make. There was a time, many years ago, where I thought that typography was fashion by another name. I didn't really appreciate...

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A Typography Timeline: From Cave Paintings To Web Fonts

counterspace.us | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: History of Typography, Typography, Timelines, Cave Paintings, Typography Timelines, Art History, Web Fonts, Books News

From Zoe Triska, Huffington Post: Counterspace provides a cool timeline of the history of typography, from cave paintings to web fonts. ...

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Newscorp's The Daily: Print May Be Dead, But Print Design Isn't

Ty Fujimura | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Design, Typography, Web Design, The Daily, Print Design, Ipad, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Newscorp's audacious iPad-only publication, The Daily, features a surprisingly elegant design more reminiscent of print than the screen. Like any maga...

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WATCH: Typography Captures The Essence Of Four Great Cities

Co.Design | JOHN PAVLUS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Typography, Video, Beijing, Barcelona, Typography as Art, London, Paris, Books News

Jean-Luc Godard famously said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, but after watching this and literally tearing up at the end, I pr...

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Two Spaces After A Period: Why You Should Never, Ever Do It

Slate Magazine | Farhad Manjoo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Assange, Two Space Error, Typography, Grammar, Grammar Pet Peeve, Two Spaces, Wikileaks, Punctuation, Books News

Last month, Gawker published a series of messages that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had once written to a 19-year-old girl he'd become infatuated ...

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TYPOGRAPHY: 'Types We Can Make' Exhibition At MIT Museum, Boston

Wallpaper* Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: MIT Museum, Fonts, Design, Compton Gallery, Typography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Font Design, Type Design, MIT University, Art Exhibitions, Mit, Arts News

With their 'International Typographic Style' - defined by its clean lines and asymmetric layouts - the Swiss blazed a trail in the world of graphic de...

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Google Maps Alphabet PHOTOS: Typography Created Using Images Of Earth

Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rhett Dashwood, Google, Typography, Letters, Google Maps Typography, Google Maps, Slidepollajax, Google Maps Alphabet, Technology News

Google Maps, a tool that offers satellite imagery of landmarks, neighborhoods, cities, and farmland, can be used for much more than scoping out what y...

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Direct and to the Point

Kevin Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Signs, Coney Island Avenue, New York, Fillmore East, Advertising, Awnings, New York Memories, Old New York, New York City, Rexall Drugs, Typography, New York Pictures, Hell's Kitchen, Forgotten Ny, New York News

Pictures of unadorned business awning signs in New York that state what you will find inside with no obfuscation, no unwarranted puffery, and as few words as possible.

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