Archive for category: Typography

‘Trying to find answers to original design challenges’    (2011.06.27)

Gerard Unger: “If type designers would concentrate more on originality – not only personal originality, but trying to find answers to original design challenges — then I think we could use more designers”

‘Web Typography’: The books    (2011.06.23)

How many Web-typography books are enough Web-typography books?

The rise of ‘self-defeating copy-editing’    (2011.05.12)

When it comes to copy-editing (and especially quotation marks), do the exact opposite of everything Ben Yagoda says

Babs Kruger’s atrocious type    (2011.05.04)

Every decade and a half, Babs Kruger insists on fucking it up with type on the side of a bus or a truck or something

Faux fonts of ‘Funkytown’    (2011.03.15)

It’s Arial! Arial! Everywhere! in Steve Galluccio’s homage to disco Montreal, Funkytown

As Margaret Cho would say but Steven Heller won’t: ‘Really chinky fonts’    (2011.02.27)

Steven Heller doesn’t have the guts to call chop-suey typefaces what Margaret Cho does: “Really chinky fonts”

‘Big 4’    (2011.02.17)

Hannah Gourlay’s mock-up for the biggest 4 in England

‘Why can’t computers read the Goof sign?’    (2011.02.09)

Come out to my Ignite Toronto presentation, 2011.02.10 at the Drake. (Keyword: Mongolian cheesemonger). (Updated)

‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs    (2010.12.08)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl