Jun 06

The Space Between the Notes

All signs are pointing to a revamp of iOS being announced at Apple’s WWDC next week, and with it, a lot of speculation around what it might look like.

Nov 14

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.

Nov 05

Content Strategy for Mobile, by Karen McGrane

New from A Book Apart, Karen McGrane’s Content Strategy for Mobile.

Oct 31

Leaving Typekit

It’s with a heavy heart I write that today is my last day at Typekit.

Oct 19

Baseline Grids on the Web

A response to a Branch discussion about the usefulness of baseline grids on the web.

Sep 27

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.

Sep 21

Off Book, The Art of Web Design

Look ma, I’m on PBS! Or at least the PBS website.

Aug 27

Stealing Sheep

When I read this Designer Spotlight on type designer Frederic Goudy it made me remember again just how much I like him.

Jul 09

Symbolset

Symbolsets are semantic symbol fonts that replace words with icons via OpenType ligature support.

Apr 10

Design Is a Job, by Mike Monteiro

New from A Book Apart, Mike Monteiro’s Design Is a Job.

Mar 29

Paper by FiftyThree

Paper is a new drawing app for the iPad from FiftyThree.

Mar 21

Stamen Maps

Stamen has released some beautiful alternative takes on map tiles.

Feb 28

Kickstarter keeps getting better

Kickstarter expects to provide more funding to the arts than NEA.

Jan 25

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!

Jan 19

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.

Jan 04

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.

Dec 14

Tattly in Motion

The fine folks at Made by Hand made a cheery promo video for those lovely designy temporary tattoo people at Tattly.

Dec 06

Shelve Your Opinions

Does our definition of what a book is need to change?

Nov 29

Little Printer from BERG

Wow, Little Printer from BERG is such a stellar little example of making something simple and fun.

Nov 28

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.

Nov 04

Chevrolet Speedometer Design

A lovely gallery of Chevy speedometer designs over the years.

Oct 26

Kern and Shape Type

Just in case you were under the impression that type design or typography are easy.

Oct 20

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.

Oct 07

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

Oct 04

Gavin Rothery

The site of Gavin Rothery, the visual effects supervisor from the excellent 2009 film Moon, is my new favorite blog.

Sep 27

Branding 10,000 Lakes

One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Every day.

Sep 19

Illusory Typography

Stephen Doyle’s beautiful type illusions from this past weekend’s New York Times Magazine.

Sep 01

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.

Aug 31

Sanborn Map Company

Beautiful lettering from old fire insurance maps, courtesy of Christian Annyas. Totally not boring, I promise.

Aug 30

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.

Aug 29

Off Book, Episode 2

In episode 2 of the PBS documentary series Off Book they take a look at the importance of typography.

Aug 16

New Oliver Sacks book covers

Lovely new Vintage series covers for Oliver Sacks designed in-house by Cardon Webb.

Aug 15

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.

Aug 01

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.

Jul 12

Tattly

Tattly, designy temporary tattoos from Swissmiss and friends. These are so hot.

Jun 16

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.