“Type designer Bruno Maag of Dalton Maag, views Helvetica’s popularity with a mixture of bemusement and irritation. So he has decided to do something about it. With the Dalton Maag team, he has created Aktiv Grotesk, a typeface designed to provide an alternative (and, he hopes, improvement) to Helvetica.” — Creative ReviewI feel you Bruno. Via Typographie, You Love Lucy.
“Qompendium Print Publication is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials.” Published by Lloyd & Associates GmbHCompiled and arranged by Kimberly Lloyd. Via “fucking good books.”
30 typefaces via Smashing Magazine (posted April 15,’09)
Great typography can make my heart skip.
This is probably one of the best pages on the internets: fucking-good-books by Studio Reizundrisiko.
The Daily What said, “Chris Piascik: “Caffeine: Healthiest Substance on Earth”. A few of Chris’s tees (but not this one though ARGH) are on sale here (via superpunch).”
“UPDATE: “Caffeine” tees are available for pre-order here. (thanks chris!)”
Awesome. Thanks The Daily What.
VERY Sweet work by Sulki Choi and Min Choi, graphic designers in Seoul, Korea (Sulki & Min). Found via but does it float. I like their catalog for Platform Seoul 2008. Shown: Poster for our first solo exhibition at Gallery Factory, Seoul, 21 April – 13 May 2006.
Nice work by Büro Boris Dworschak via @Ampersanderson (Matthew Anderson). Boris was commissioned for typeface work on the Film Darjeeling Limited.
Really sweet ‘drop-cap’ sign outside an Apothecary in Baden-Baden, Germany. ‘A’, is for Apothecary.
Business Penmanship by Ale Paul, co-founder of Sudtipos font foundry. Available at Veer. Bonus: Ale’s Flickr.
Reblogged via Matthew Buchanan:
New from TypeTogether, Etica — the moralist typeface:
The challenge was to obtain the same force, versatility and colour that are, from our point of view, Helvetica’s greatest qualities. The same proportions have been maintained, albeit with slightly reduced letter width. The resulting design has soft strokes, open counters and terminals; aesthetically resting somewhere between a grotesque and humanist sans serif.
Comes in six weights, with OpenType features including four sets of numerals, fractions, several stylistic alternates and a set of arrows and dingbats. Designed by Italian studio Leftloft.
Small write up over at Typophile identifying newly introduced typefaces with the redesign of the NY Times Magazine. New Type in New York Times Mag. I was particular interested in identifying Knockout, by Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Others include Lyon, by Atelier Carvalho Bernau for the main text, Nyte, by DSTYPE (Dino dos Santos), Process Type’s Sunday, and Bitstream’s Stymie Extra Bold.
Hofstede Design
Established in 1996, Hofstede Design specialises in identity, publication and environmental graphic design. BRILLIANT typography and layout for the web.
