1 year ago
![“Playtype.com, one of Europe’s preeminent online font foundries, has opened a gorgeous brick-and-mortar shop in Copenhagen dedicated to flogging digital typefaces. Customers can walk in off the street and buy fonts loaded on USBs that resemble little credit cards. The shop also sells a ragbag of typographic gifts and paraphernalia, including T-shirts, posters, and even wine.
E-Types, the Danish design agency behind Playtype.com, bills the shop as “the first of its kind” in the world. We can’t verify that, but it’s certainly a departure from the standard practices of the day, in which type foundries, both big and small, distribute their wares as downloads or via email.”
(via World’s First: An Apple Store for Type Geeks [Slideshow] | Co.Design)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhnm7jEBXG1qzvs8qo1_500.jpg)
“Playtype.com, one of Europe’s preeminent online font foundries, has opened a gorgeous brick-and-mortar shop in Copenhagen dedicated to flogging digital typefaces. Customers can walk in off the street and buy fonts loaded on USBs that resemble little credit cards. The shop also sells a ragbag of typographic gifts and paraphernalia, including T-shirts, posters, and even wine.
E-Types, the Danish design agency behind Playtype.com, bills the shop as “the first of its kind” in the world. We can’t verify that, but it’s certainly a departure from the standard practices of the day, in which type foundries, both big and small, distribute their wares as downloads or via email.”
(via World’s First: An Apple Store for Type Geeks [Slideshow] | Co.Design)
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1 year ago
For all the type purists out there - or anybody who looks more closely at typography - here’s a didactic list of what not to do for purer, nicer typesetting.
Click the image above to download a PDF of the complete poster, or click here to buy a beautiful letterpress-printed copy.
Thanks to fellow Tumblr Impress On Me, who first blogged about this.
What do you think? Agree with the list? Have any suggestions?
1 year ago
Staring out of a rain-soaked window this miserable Monday morning?
Enjoy these beautiful shots of Las Vegas typography instead, courtesy of photographer Jean-François Thériault. Just click the image above to see the full set.
(Thanks to the designworklife blog for the find.)
2 years ago
I came across this quite late in the day - it’s a ‘creative futures’ project sponsored by Creative Review back in February of 2008. (Remember that far-distant time when we had a functioning economy?)
To me it seems like a nice film to start warming you up for the festive season: It features two brothers - one an award-winning lettering artist, and one a regular kid - hand-rendering the alphabet, one letter at a time. You’ll have to sit through the credits to get to the side-by-side stuff, or you can just skip to 1.55 in the timeline.
Here’s the Creative Review piece on the initiative.
I actually found it on the Bigger Picture blog, as found via this post of a SpringWise article Tumbl’d by Creative Inspiration.
2 years ago
Punctuating Brands «
NYT on the typographic quirks some brands enforce to gain stand-out.
An interesting article that explains the strategy behind some punctuation-driven brand names.
The article originates the trend in acronyms (MoMA), and explains the popularity of the technique in the last decade as a symptom of brand designers attempting to to gain total control over every aspect of a brand’s communication.
It’s always been an irritant to me: In an Irish context, the odd use of lower-case letters - in eircom and permanent tsb - always struck me as arrogance masquerading as modesty.
2 years ago
