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My Type of Music Special: Fonts From The Flea Market | FontFeed

One of my favourite weekend treats is Fonts From The Flea Market, an ongoing typographic journey of discovery posted on the Twitter account of Swiss graphic design studio Büro Destruct. Lorenz “Lopetz” Gianfreda started the series four years ago while browsing countless used 7″ vinyl singles at a flea market in the French part of Switzerland. In the days when music was still sold as a physical, tangible product, record sleeves provided original typefaces with a great platform to catch the potential record buyer’s attention. Hunting down those imaginative type designs at flea markets and second hand shops became a source of inspiration and visceral pleasure for Lopetz. The type maniac and font designer started photographing them and sharing them with like-minded people, and the series was born. The collection currently holds over 800 images and is truly fascinating.

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A San Francisco Type Design Workshop with Sumner Stone

Sumner Stone. A still from a video interview for the Type Directors Club.

Advanced educational opportunities for typeface design have spread swiftly over the last decade. In January, Troy Leinster’s overview of these new options covered his experience at Type@Cooper and KABK, and concluded with a list of eight other schools that offer specialized type design programs. Fortsätt läsa A San Francisco Type Design Workshop with Sumner Stone

This Week in Fonts | I Love Typography

An “old Hollywood” inspired sans from Jessica Hische, a harmonious family by Laura Worthington, a contemporary serif from Grilli Type, a stylish slab by FaceType, a gentle sans from Production Type, a versatile sans by Tour De Force, a brush inspired face from Commercial Type, and a calligraphic script by Aerotype. Fortsätt läsa This Week in Fonts | I Love Typography

From The Collection: 003 | Frere-Jones

FRÅN Frere-Jones »The writing manuals of the time would have found fault — probably a lot of faults — with this penmanship. Perfect or not, I find it charming and even inspiring to see the attention given to something so mundane as a gas bill.

In my trawling for subway signs, I found this bill from The Manhattan Gas Light Company to The Manhattan Railway Company. It records the gas supplied to dozens of elevated train stations through the month of August, 1881. Sorting the stations by avenue and separately noting the east and west sides of each station, a clerk had to paste together three sheets of paper to record all the data, creating a bill over two feet long.

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