This is Keith Houston’s blog about the unusual stories behind some well-known — and some rather more outlandish — marks of punctuation.
Shady Characters – The secret life of punctuation
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The excellent film on Massimo Vignelli’s approach to book design by Pentagram for Mohawk, ...
The latest issue of limited edition typography 8 Faces is now on sale, available ...
A film documenting the publishing (ad)venture of Baseline Magazine. It is a brief, yet ...
Revolution or evolution? Fall or rise? Whorehouse or paradise? Cola or guarapo? Marlboro or ...
In a recent two-day Gestalten workshop, participants worked closely with Jessica Hische (a letterer ...
The Geometry of Type The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces Stephen Coles Foreword by Erik Spiekermann Thames ...
Demian Conrad Design is a creative studio based in Lausanne, Switzerland and boasts a ...
Today I stumbled across www.spoon-tamago.com — a collection of Japanese art, design and culture ...
The updated edition of 'Grids' published by Ava academia - is well worth checking ...
The chances are, you knew some of his typographic work, but you didn't know ...
AVA Academia publish some excellent books covering applied visual arts and design subjects, there ...
From the San Francisco Chronicle — A brilliant insight a man who has been ...
Rediscovering and interpreting stories of dead words by Karen To.
‘TYPE MATTERS!’ BY JIM WILLIAMS (MERRELL PUBLISHERS) The following text is (Jim Williams own words) ...
Alphabet Topography Typeface by Synoptic Office
Letters. These alphabetical shapes, these strokes, swoops and flashy little tickles that get us ...
Russian graphic designer Dina Silanteva is a recent MA graduate from Kingston University, London. ...
London Typographica – Creating the typographic map of London London Typographica is a project aimed ...
Antwerp – A new typeface release from A2-Type / A2/SW/HK In 2009 A2/SW/HK launched A2-TYPE ...
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design establishes a ...
The Type Fellowship — An embodiment of passion towards the power of language and ...
Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques by Andrew Haslam and published by Laurence King This ...
A blog about the unusual stories behind some well-known marks of punctuation.
Urban artist PIKY is inspired by the aftermath of war and revolution (and underlying themes of sociological, political de/reconstruction)
Continuing our series of exclusive interviews with London based Fontsmith, we bring you award ...
A beautiful collection of posters by Chicago-based Tim Davie
One Page Magazine Prints
If you could only use eight typefaces for the rest of your life, which ...
Graphic design and printing has engaged with geometric letters for at least a century. ...
A typeface designed for Wired. Used throughout the magazine and iPad app for chapter ...
There is some great old typography to be found by digging through the Sheaff ...
Interview with the very successful David Airey, identity designer and blog writer…
A tour of the BMW Museum – A Scenographic Exhibition The new BMW Museum ...
Lovely process shots of Brooklyn–based Haven Press by Alan Tansey — view the full ...
Here is our second in series of 4 exclusive interviews with the superstar type ...
The most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written…
This past week Voyager 1 went into the 'Foam'. Let us hope that someone ...
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog…
Submit a letter, word or phrase and ‘The Phraseology Project’ will make it look beautiful with type…
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