I think this is the first time a typeface has had it’s own dedicated site. Metaserif.com is the site for the new font by Erik Spiekermann. It contains a great section on the story of Meta Serif.
Category: Typography
Hiruko Typeface
Alex of Thinkdust informed me about an elegant new typeface family that he designed called Hiruko. It comes in a variety of styles including Regular, Alternative, Light, Oblique, and soon Heavy, Medium, and Outline. You can purchase the fonts at the site.
Ringling College Admissions Catalog
This is probably the most beautiful college admissions catalogue I’ve ever seen. Absolutely gorgeous. It was designed by Lucas Human, Phil Clark, and Jenn Levreault during their senior year. The three traveled to Bologna, Italy to oversee the press check at Zincographica. You can request a free copy at www.ringling.edu.
Redrawing the MoMA Logo
For me, one of the most exciting and rewarding aspects of design is the details. That’s where I spend most of my time and even though the untrained eye probably won’t notice them, the details still make the design better.
So I was excited when I came across this scan of a 2003 NY Times article on the redrawing of the MoMA logo. The legendary Matthew Carter was hired to do the refresh in which the changes were minimal but the results were significant.
A Brief History of Emil Ruder
A short but excellent write up over at Thinking for a Living about Emil Ruder, one of the pioneers of the International Typographic Style.
Cinematypography
Here’s a fun little project titled Cinematypography by talented UK student (and author of September Industry) David Corti. Cinematypography is a collection of 70 film titles renamed to coincide with a typeface. David reached out to the creative community for the new film titles. Participants include Build, KentLyons, Neue, SampsonMay, This Studio, Un.titled and yours truly.
Unfortunately the poster is already sold out since only 50 were printed.