January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
3 posts
Saul Bass Pitches the new Bell System Logo. Amazing, sometimes over the top, brand pitch. Thanks to @benbours
November 2011
6 posts
Yanone created Speed Punk while we were in t]m together. Great to finally see it’s coming together!
October 2011
3 posts
For Steve →
You nailed it, Frank.
viafrank:
The world gives us so few who provide a way for us all to see in new ways. It always hurts when they leave. The effused sadness that has spread through the internet from the news of Steve Jobs’ death is to be expected. We lament when things are taken from us, and I’d say that Jobs’ death (like…
September 2011
6 posts
4 tags
Drewbot: On Facebook Timeline: Teaching Data to... →
I think the new Timeline profile design is a great step in the right direction.
dbreunig:
Yesterday, Facebook unveiled their new “Timeline” design. Largely imagined by Sam Lessin and Nicholas Feltron, the design coaxes personal actions recorded by Facebook into a humane, emotional, interface for a given history1. Users can delve into their content not as images, notes, and…
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
4 posts
This is a fantastic collection of slides from the TypeCon 2011 talk “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Where are Designers Going with Web Fonts?” by Scott Boms (@scottboms), Brian Warren (@mrwarren) & Luke Dorny (@luxuryluke). I love the findings from the survey they did:
→ 94% of survey responders use Web Fonts
→ 91% want better quality fonts rather than more of them
→ 66% like...
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
11 posts
New Typefaces released at Typo Berlin 2011
Thurday it seemed like every other lecture I went to, someone was releasing a typeface! It started out with Peter Biľak, when he released in the morning Elementar, a parametric typeface with a whoping 420 fonts, concepted by t]m alumnus Gustavo Ferreira (@hipertipo).
The second came when Kris Sowersby (@klimtypefoundry) took the stage in the afternoon and announced that he will be releasing...
April 2011
7 posts
Globe Poster: An Illustrated History Of American... →
A fantastic writeup and a brief history of Globe. I would kill to be in that graduate-level letterpress class with Bob.
Oh my gosh, this is a wonderful video. Like many graphic design/letterpress fetishists out there, I love Studio on Fire’s work. In this great video by Gestalten TV, you get to see his nigh immaculate work space. What I wouldn’t give for all those toys.
Thanks to Jen Mussari for the link to this.
March 2011
7 posts