Barbican Identity Guidelines

Posted on February 12, 2009February 12, 2009 Posted in Books, Design, Industrial Design, TypographyTagged Books, futura, graphic design, guidelines, identity, International Typographic Style, logo, Typography19 Comments

I’ve been drooling over this Flickr set featuring a bunch of photos of the gorgeous Barbican Identity Guidelines book designed by North. Well done.

Update
Some posted a link to the downloadable PDF of the book. Thanks!

The Sans-Serif Shirt

Posted on May 19, 2008May 19, 2008 Posted in Design, Merch, TypographyTagged Akzidenz Grotesk, futura, graphic design, helvetica, merchandise, sans-serif, T-shirts, trade gothic, typeface, Typography, univers4 Comments

From the minds that brought us the Huge Type Looks Sweet shirt, Sans-Serif is a new t-shirt featuring all of our favorite sans typefaces. Me wants!

Social Gothic

Posted on March 4, 2008March 4, 2008 Posted in TypographyTagged canada type, fonts, futura, helvetica, type, typeface, Typography, univers2 Comments

I only use handful of typefaces, mainly classics like Helvetica, Univers, Akzidenz Grotesk, Avant Garde and Futura, and I’m not a firm believer of using multiple typefaces in a design. So it’s rare when I find a modern typeface that gets my design juices flowing, and today I’ve found two.

Social Gothic is a new typeface by Canada Type that has the characteristics of some of these classic typefaces but with a more modern feel to it. I like it. Social Gothic is a unicase font that contains an expanded character set as well as a few alternates. You can purchase a copy at You Work For Them.