Looking at the Marmite of the typeface world.
if you love Comic Sans, you don’t know anything about typography. But if you hate Comic Sans, then you don’t know anything about typography either…and you should get another hobby
Källa: Hate Comic Sans? You don’t know anything about typography
Spectral is the newest addition to Google’s font library. Designed by Production Type, the team behind great fonts such as Gemeli, or Cogito, Spectral is a beautiful screen-first font.
Läs mer: Google Introduces Spectral, a New Web Font – Designmodo
Legendary designer David Carson on why you should just say no to Helvetica.
For graphic designers, success and controversy rarely go hand in hand. But David Carson flaunted that rule, along with just about every design principle when he became the founding art director of Ray Gun, a music magazine whose raucous look seemed to perfectly encapsulate the ’90s grunge era. A latecomer to graphic design, he did only what felt right to him, not what he was taught. He eschewed order in favor of a noisy, expressive approach to typography that, detractors famously claimed, compromised legibility.
Läs hela artikeln här: The Father of Grunge Typography Calls Out Lazy Design
Givet vår snabbt föränderliga omvärld, vad krävs för att en visuell varumärkesidentitet effektivt ska ta sig genom bruset? Förutsättningarna för varumärkeskommunikationen förändras snabbare än någonsin men utvecklingen och arbetet med varumärkesidentiteten hos många företag och organisationer hänger inte riktigt med.
Dubai has long had a taste for the finer things in life. The influential Persian Gulf city has been home to the world’s tallest building, a hotel that offers guests private butlers and 24-karat-gold iPads, and even a bakery that sold gold-laced cupcakes for roughly $1,000 each.
Now it is getting attention for a slightly less flashy effort that may soon be coming to a word-processing program near you: Dubai has made its own font.
Källa: Dubai Introduces Its Own Font, Lauding Free Expression It Does Not Permit – The New York Times