
Andrew Dickson of the Guardian interviews ‘Helvetica’ director Gary Hustwit.
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Wonderful sign created by Michael Bierut and his team at Pentagram on the new New York Times Building. Michael explains the process of creating the sign in more detail on the Pentagram blog.

Schmid Today is a project about the designer and typographer Helmut Schmid that consists of an international exhibition, a book, a project documentary and a website. Excellent stuff.
«schmid today» is a research project about the designer and typographer Helmut Schmid by the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf’s Design Department. The project was initiated and is supervised by Professors Victor Malsy and Philipp Teufel. The research team of 55 students around them collected, researched and cataloged designs by Helmut Schmid for the course of three years. The Archive documents Schmid’s complete works, including originals from the past 40 years. The results of the research are published now in an international exhibition, a book, a project documentary and in the digital realm for the first time.

Leading is a pretty powerful aspect of typography and it can make or break an entire design if it’s not implemented correctly. Here is a great article by Mark Boulton on incremental leading. He never disappoints.

Richard over at Ace Jet 170 has posted images of his copy of a 1966 issue of Penrose Annual. Great stuff.