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De-Aparting
Over 7 years and 167 issues later, the time has come for me to step down as creative director for A List Apart.
Saying “No”
I had the pleasure of speaking alongside Simon Collison for the New York CreativeMornings chapter last month as part of the Kickstarter benefit to create an archive of of every video from every speaker from every chapter.
Content Strategy for Mobile, by Karen McGrane
New from A Book Apart, Karen McGrane’s Content Strategy for Mobile.
Leaving Typekit
It’s with a heavy heart I write that today is my last day at Typekit.
Baseline Grids on the Web
A response to a Branch discussion about the usefulness of baseline grids on the web.
Beautiful Bitmaps
The wonderful folks over at UPPERCASE Magazine invited me to participate in a fun typographic project called Beautiful Bitmaps for their latest issue.
Off Book, The Art of Web Design
Look ma, I’m on PBS! Or at least the PBS website.
Stealing Sheep
When I read this Designer Spotlight on type designer Frederic Goudy it made me remember again just how much I like him.
Symbolset
Symbolsets are semantic symbol fonts that replace words with icons via OpenType ligature support.
Pixar Story Rules
Story rules, as told by one Pixar story artist.
Hillman
Hillman Curtis, artist, designer, filmmaker, Brooklynite, bicyclist, friend, and explorer passed away last week at the young age of 51.
Design Is a Job, by Mike Monteiro
New from A Book Apart, Mike Monteiro’s Design Is a Job.
Comic Books on the iPad
I’ve been reading comic books since I was a kid, and now the new iPad has quickly become my primary means for reading them.
Paper by FiftyThree
Paper is a new drawing app for the iPad from FiftyThree.
Stamen Maps
Stamen has released some beautiful alternative takes on map tiles.
Kickstarter keeps getting better
Kickstarter expects to provide more funding to the arts than NEA.
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 at Typographica
One of the best annual wrap-ups returns after a hiatus in 2009-10, Our Favorite Typefaces, from Typographica. Welcome back!
A List Apart: Issue 342
The latest issue of A List Apart is one of my favorites in recent memory, and has three articles you can’t miss.
10 New Year’s resolutions for designers
I generally avoid lists and New Year’s resolutions, but Mike Monteiro issues a rallying cry so poignant we all need to listen.
Tattly in Motion
The fine folks at Made by Hand made a cheery promo video for those lovely designy temporary tattoo people at Tattly.
Shelve Your Opinions
Does our definition of what a book is need to change?
Little Printer from BERG
Wow, Little Printer from BERG is such a stellar little example of making something simple and fun.
Kafkaesque
These upcoming Kafka covers by Peter Mendelsund are really lovely. These beautiful stark shapes and colors make them unexpected, but also totally on the mark.
The Knife Maker
The second film in the Made by Hand series, The Knife Maker, focuses on Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn.
Chevrolet Speedometer Design
A lovely gallery of Chevy speedometer designs over the years.
Tegels
The hidden movements and melodies of street tiles.
Chocolate is for Girls
My love affair with candy has been lifelong, and while each year I seem to have a new favorite, there’s one variable that unites them all—they are not chocolate. by Jessica Hische
Kern and Shape Type
Just in case you were under the impression that type design or typography are easy.
Monkey Nuts, Barmbrack and Apples
I grew up in Ireland, the home of Halloween. by Jeremy Keith
New Browsing UI at Typekit
We just launched something over at Typekit that we’ve been working on for some time, a brand new interface for browsing our type library.
Two New A Book Aparts!
We’re very excited to release not one, but two, new A Book Apart titles today.
Instapaper 4
One of the best iOS apps around gets a great big update. Instapaper 4.0 is out!
Chunky in Fury
It’s January of 1979 and we’re sitting inside the Plymouth Fury outside an AM/PM Mini Market in North Philadelphia. by Mike Monteiro
Gavin Rothery
The site of Gavin Rothery, the visual effects supervisor from the excellent 2009 film Moon, is my new favorite blog.
Branding 10,000 Lakes
One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Every day.
Illusory Typography
Stephen Doyle’s beautiful type illusions from this past weekend’s New York Times Magazine.
Scenes from Brimfield
Last week I went to Brimfield, Massachusetts, home of the largest flea market in New England. Here are some photos from the trip.
Made by Hand
Made by Hand is a short film series celebrating the people who makes things by hand — sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft.
Who invented the high five?
The origin of the high five is as mysterious as it is timeless. “So I reached up and hit his hand. It seemed like the thing to do.”
Wood Type Revival
Wood Type Revival seeks to acquire and release ten fonts of rare historic wood type representing faces that are not available in the world of digital typography.
Sanborn Map Company
Beautiful lettering from old fire insurance maps, courtesy of Christian Annyas. Totally not boring, I promise.
Golden Grid System
Golden Grid System, a folding grid for responsive design. Take it apart, steal the parts that you like, and adapt them to your own way of working.
Off Book, Episode 2
In episode 2 of the PBS documentary series Off Book they take a look at the importance of typography.
Five & Ten
This year marks my site’s tenth birthday online, so I’m celebrating with a new design incarnation. Number five is alive! (Sorry)
Jacqui Oakley
Check out some of this gorgeous work from Toronto illustrator, Jacqui Oakley.
New Oliver Sacks book covers
Lovely new Vintage series covers for Oliver Sacks designed in-house by Cardon Webb.
Who really designed Times New Roman?
There’s strong evidence that Times New Roman wasn’t designed by Stanley Morison, but by William Starling Burgess, a wooden boat designer from Boston.
About Face
About Face, a new article series I’m writing over at the Typekit Blog where we’ll look at the details behind a typeface and try to crack what makes it special.
Words
A fantastic visual game of telephone from Everynone (in Collaboration with WNYC’s Radiolab & NPR). Shut off everything for three minutes and just watch.
WasteLandscape
An undulating landscape of 65,000 CDs by architect Clémence Eliard and artist Elise Morin.
Tattly
Tattly, designy temporary tattoos from Swissmiss and friends. These are so hot.
WIM•BLE•DON
Video info graphic (infovideo?) documenting the final game of the 122nd Edition of the Wimbledon Championships Men’s Final between tennis giants Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Very clever.
Understanding Comics