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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
Tomasz Biskup is a multidisciplinary designer based in Poland. After years of working in the world of advertising he launched his own practice in 2011.
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
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.
Vicki Turner is a British Designer, Illustrator and Maker with a passion for the natural world. From her new studio in Devon she crafts whimsical works exploding with repetition and rhythm.