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If you’re anywhere around North Andover, MA, you might want to check these out. The sale runs through August 28.
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Why pay for fonts when you can get them free, right?

This site features fonts that really sta…Free Vista FontsIf you have a Windows system but you aren’t running Vista you can [...]

The resourceful Mr. Peacay of BibliOdyssey has collected a set of Beatrix Potter illustrations from archives at Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses. It’s an excellent set; shown is The Rabbits’ Christmas Party - The Arrival, the first of a series of six watercolour sketches from 1892.
See more examples here.
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Huge, aren’t they? See them at the National Building Museum.
Kind of a random post, but I’m on the road and don’t have a lot of time for internet. Here’s another view of this remarkable building:

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Some pretty porous copy on this text panel about porous paving at the National Botanical Gardens…Google SetsSomehow [...]

I’m not sure how the advertiser managed to put this copy on a nearly sheer cliff high above the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers near Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia.
Much as I wanted to think they were promoting baking powder, considering the location’s unfortunate history I figured this was probably an ad for gunpowder [...]

Rightreading has been on the road for a while, and mostly without an internet connection. I’ve encountered some interesting ghost type on my travels, such as this example from Baltimore’s Fell Point district. I figured this type was pretty old because of the small counters, a notion that was confirmed when I finally made out [...]

Here’s a short section from the documentary Helvetica, by Gary Hustwit. This section features a brief interview with Erik Spiekermann.

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The official Helvetica movie poster.Invading LiechtensteinOn March 2 170 lost Swiss soldiers accidentally invaded neighboring Liechtenstein. But instead of cl…Helvetica Love/Hate Contest WinnersFunny the buzz about Helvetica lately. Over at Veer they [...]

Why pay for fonts when you can get them free, right?
This site features fonts that really stand out in a crowd. Honest!
But sometimes honesty can be harsh.
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FontShop has a nice offer for [...]

Caduceus asks that question at MetaFilter, and IndiaInk has started a thread in reply.
There have, of course, been many effects. some good, others not so good. Caduceus is probably asking for practical advice on using new technologies and media, but the question could also be answered in a broader sense. Following are a few consequences [...]

This image of woodtype figures sorts at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, is from Nick Sherman’s photostream.
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This photo of books simply left behind after a St. Louis Public Library move comes from nathans…Photo Wednesday: Bringing it all back home

I studied comparative literature [...]

Book publishing has always been a little backward in some aspects of marketing. For example, while a graphic designer might produce several covers for a book, these are usually reviewed only by a select group of decision makers involved with its production and marketing. I’m not aware of many focus group tests, even for titles [...]

This photo of books simply left behind after a St. Louis Public Library move comes from nathansnider’s photostream.
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I studied comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where this picture w…Photo Wednesday: woodtype figures

This image of woodtype figures sorts at the Hamilton Wood Type [...]

No, not op eds — op ads. I had forgotten how pervasive op art was in advertising of the 1960s and 1970s. It was also a period of increasingly globalism, as design fads trends quickly spread from one culture to another.
Italy produced some of the boldest op art ads, such as these ads for a [...]

Working with Garamond Premier Pro for my book on Persian ceramics, I have been impressed by the range of sizes and weights the typeface includes. There are regular, medium, semibold, and bold weights for each of the sizes. In addition, the display size offers an extra-light weight in both regular and italic.
Different fonts are provided [...]

Paul Rand offers some answers in this four-minute video. According to the youtube info, it was “created for his posthumous induction to the One Club Hall of Fame in 2007.”

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Alki1 has created a nice Flickr set of examples of the so-called new graphic design. If you’re i…How does one become a [...]

In yesterday’s discussion of the map for my Persian ceramics book, I mentioned that I hadn’t settled on a map color scheme. Subsequently I decided to pick up the scheme from one of the objects in the book. Shown is a detail of that object, which I’m using as a section opener.
This is a [...]

After a long interval in which nothing happened, suddenly I’m back working on my little book about Persian ceramics (the trim size, 9.5 x 10 in., is small by museum publishing standards; it would have seemed large back in my text-based literary publishing days). This book required a map. I originally intended to send it [...]

Overblown prose often springs up exactly where you would expect to find it. But shouldn’t this extraordinary opening by Peter Hartlaub to his review of Grand Theft Auto IV in the San Francisco Chronicle get some sort of award?
Cultural revolution often comes from seemingly imperfect people and unpopular places.
The most influential athlete was labeled [...]

The Porchez Type Foundry has restored a former feature of its site, a whirlwind tour of the history of typography. It says on the site that “This history, normally told from the Anglo-Saxon point of view, is from a French perspective, allowing the reader to form one’s own opinion.” It’s not evident to me what [...]

Why? Well consider the case of Emine and Ramazan Çalçoban. Theirs was a fatal love affair. But it was hardly Romeo and Juliet.
In the beginning all was sunbeams and roses for this young Turkish couple. But then things started to go bad, and get worse, and finally they separated. A flurry of e-mail incriminations followed, [...]

Typeheads might want to try the Rather Difficult Type Game. I scored 32 out of 34 (didn’t notice which two I missed). Most of the questions can be figured out by elimination, but it kept asking me about typefaces like Affair and Yanone Kaffeesatz, about which I know nothing.
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