Design Is a Job, by Mike Monteiro
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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.
Chevrolet Speedometer Design
A lovely gallery of Chevy speedometer designs over the years.
Kern and Shape Type
Just in case you were under the impression that type design or typography are easy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Type: The Secret History of Letters