Design History Primer 2: Handwriting to Printed Type
Moving on to the second page of Design History lecture guides by Design History.org which covers the beginnings of writing and how it came to be what we know today.
This [...]
New From Designer Daily: Typography Daily
If you like Type–and who doesn’t? Check out the new Typography Daily site from the folks at Designer Daily. Full of inspiration, links to free typefaces, typographic experiments, and [...]
Not your dad’s urban graphics
Designer Daily brings us this collection of urban marking/marketing approaches that have clearly evolved (or de-evolved) with the times. This reflects the attitutes of a new generation of designers who [...]
Expressive Typography
One of my favorite things about design is typography. One can do so much with it–and yet so many pay little attention to it. John Berry’s Dot Font column on Creativepro.com is a great source for those of us who love typography. This particular article shows great examples of how type and type alone can be used to compose a great design. I like that he opens with a piece by Herb Lubalin, who I think is great. he looked at type like nobody else did before or after.
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