You can use whichever LEGO elements you like in your typeface design, but the only rule is that you must utilise at least one of the following new pieces pictured here. They are: That’s it for…
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This Typographic Analysis of ‘Alien’ is Terrifyingly, Wonderfully Geeky
You might consider yourself an Alien expert. You may be able to quote the entire film, backwards, or know who was the third assistant focus-puller. But I guarantee that not even Ridley Scott has knowledge…
The 6 Ways Typography Can Impact Your Brand
One function of typography is to serve as a part of an identity, whether it’s for a business or even just a personal brand. What you end up using should represent what your brand is…
IDEO builds interactive font map using artificial intelligence
in an exercise to investigate the ways in which machine learning can be applied to various creative challenges, designers at IDEO are bringing artificial intelligence to the world of typography. recognizing font choice as one…
Sarah Hyndman: “It’s easy to see typography as an invisible discipline”
Type expert and graphic designer Sarah Hyndman has written and illustrated an activity book that asks readers to bring typefaces to life through drawing, colouring and thinking. Published by Laurence King, How to Draw Type…
How two designers maintained a long-distance relationship through typography
Nei Valente moved to São Paulo and Kate Cullinane stayed in New York. They spent the summer sending self-made postcards to each other – which became this beautiful collection. You’re a New Zealand designer living…
unWorded is a creative typography-based puzzler, now available on Android
What are letters? They have meaning, and can be combined to form words like these (and cooler ones like “kerfuffle” and “cantankerous”). They also take up space—they have shapes that can mean something else. unWorded…
The Typography Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
Playing with typographic puzzle pieces is one of the joys of graphic design and typographers have many entertaining, esoteric and eccentric options at their disposal. The Typography Idea Book presents 50 of the most inspiring…
Email Typography: An Evolution of Style
As humans we’ve learnt the art of evolving rapidly with time. We ache to learn and implement new technologies, ideas and learnings. The evolution of emails has put us on the fast track to our…
Type Nugget: Good Typography is About Finding the Right Playground
This is a golden era for web typography – in relative terms at least. After spending most of two decades working within the tiny design sandpit of Times, Helvetica, Arial and Courier, we now have…