The latest annual is the fifth edition and 140 winners were picked from over 1,800 entries. This year’s judges included John Clark, Juan Carlos Pagan and Laura Worthington.
Welcome to a new monthly roundup of type-related info and entertainment. (This will be in addition to Sean Mitchell’s excellent This Week in Fonts feature.) This month, we have movies (about sign painters, and Eric and John Gill), books (about Porchez, Baskerville, Spiekermann, and typewriter art, as well as books by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson), a Flickr group that points at things, a free typography course with Ellen Lupton, ladies of letterpress, medieval marginalia, all sorts of lettering and typography, some fun new fonts, and more.
2–25 Från Maimonides till Lenke Rothman. Klenoder och enskilda arkiv ur Kungliga bibliotekets handskriftssamling
Anna Wolodarski
26–37 Böcker i böcker i böcker. Varför kommer jag alltid att tänka på Borges? – Wolfgang Undorf på spaning efter Kristian Petri
38–51 Dan Jonsson – grafisk formgivare och illustratör
52–65 Redogörelse för efterforskningar i Sverige. Om handskrifter och äldre tryck från Poznań i Uppsala universitetsbiblioteks samlingar
Alicja Szulc och Renata Wilgosiewicz-Skutecka
66–72 Råttfällan och det kinesiska gåtspelet. Två litograferade spel
Carina Broman
73–74 Hur jag fann en bok som inte finns och hur jag sedermera kom in på hur mycket jag saknar den förhatliga genren ”fyndhistorier”
Peter Bodén
75–79 Ny avdelning i Biblis: NordNytt
As part of a review of it’s licensing model, leading type design studio Fontsmith, has launched a new service, Brandfont®, and now offers webfonts and other formats for digital use direct from its new website.
Founder Jason Smith explains: “Over the last 15 years, Fontsmith has grown and developed along with our customers, moving with and listening to the needs of brands worldwide. Our customers have also evolved and we now have four kinds of client that buy our fonts: designers, small businesses, digital customers and large brands.”