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May 23, 2008
Frutiger Serif, extending the Frutiger family
Frutiger Serif, extending the Frutiger family

For Adrian Frutiger’s 80st birthday, Linotype released a new font: the Frutiger Serif. It’s been developped by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi. It’s basically a revision of the Meridien, the favorite font of the superstar typographer. With many weights and styles, the Frutiger Serif is perfect to be used with the sans-serif Frutiger and its […]

May 18, 2008
Design links for the week
Design links for the week

Fatal attractions Smart contextual advertising Cute little typographic illustration Pixel style graphic design layout Photoshop HDR tutorial Beautiful vinyl turntable Design is thinking made visual Great wall-painted animatio If you don’t want to miss any of the links shared, you can of course follow me on my Tumblelog if you are a Tumblr user.

May 8, 2008
OurType: fine typography from Europe
OurType: fine typography from Europe

Founded in 2002, OurType.be is a collaborative font publishing website initiated by Fred Smeijers, a first generation digital type designer. The website, all in flash (argh…), can seem a bit strange to navigate at first, but is very nice. In fact you can easily try the font live and see it at different sizes. Every […]

April 19, 2008
This week on my link blog
This week on my link blog

A cool dress on Flickr Nice short animation for the Zürich Chamber Orchestra The great sketchbook of Jim Stoten Food that has taken the shape of its container New graphic design in China The Helvetica Neue t-shirt Build, share and download fonts with FontStruct You can of course follow me on my Tumblelog is you […]

March 29, 2008
Type is an organism
Type is an organism

Typorganism is a seris of communication experiments exploring computational interaction design and interactive kinetic typography based on the metaphorical notion of typography “Type is a life form”, which lives on the Net, responds to user’s stimulus, evolves through time, has intelligence powered by computational algorithm. http://www.typorganism.com

March 5, 2008
On selling designers selling web products
On selling designers selling web products

Interesting thoughts at David Shea’s Mezzoblue on the interest for designers to sell web products. He describes 6 ways to make money selling products: t-shirts, buttons, icons, stock photography, typefaces and web templates. He doesn’t seem to believe in the viability of selling such products online, but seems to be quite happy with his experience […]

February 26, 2008
Middle-eastern typography
Middle-eastern typography

Amazing posters by Reza Abedini I had the chance to travel to some arabic countries where I discovered the beauty of calligraphy as building or object ornementation. However, I’ve been wondering how this free style could be transposed into movable types or glyphs. Well, after doing a little research I can say that I’ve not […]

Typolade: typography with chocolate
Typolade: typography with chocolate

Very nice…

February 22, 2008
Keming
Keming

Made me laugh. Via Type for You.

February 18, 2008
Font Must Die
Font Must Die

Can’t stand people using Comic Sans MS on websites you read? This user script is for you, it will help you to get rid of every instance of Comic Sans MS and replace it by a simple black sans-serif font.

January 26, 2008
Still smoking
Still smoking

A font face inspired by the smoking ban in british pubs last year by Chrissie Abbott. Via It’s Nice That.

January 21, 2008
Eduardo Recife
Eduardo Recife

Just discovered the work of Eduardo Recife, some beautiful designs to see on his site.

January 18, 2008
Ancient chinese typography
Ancient chinese typography

Sometimes being a compulsive eBay buyer can be a good thing. Recently I acquired an old chinese book. The thing that immediately amazed me is the quality and the variety in the pages layout and the typography. Unfortunately I can’t read japanese, so I don’t understand anything about the meaning of the book. Interesting headers […]

January 16, 2008
Finer spacing in typography
Finer spacing in typography

A really ironic book cover, seen on typography.com. Via Daring Fireball.

January 14, 2008
Dairy today redesign
Dairy today redesign

I guess that not many of you are readers of Dairy Today. However you have to read this article about the spectacular redesign of the magazine. The elegant use of typography combined with great photos gives a strong graphical impact to the covers. The plain background colour is a really good choice to give a […]