100 Best Books on Typography

Here's a list compiled by the Type Directors Club, a NY institution founded in 1946.

Design Show Opening

Here is the link to the AIGA Philadelphia Design Awards exhibition, opening this Friday, May 1 at the AXD Gallery in Old City - it will be a good chance to see some good local design and meet designers, students and others from Philadelphia design community.

Colophons

Remember to design a space in your pamphlet for a colophon or 'printers' mark.'.

Here is a library of colophons from the 1940s and '50s.

À la Carte

Thanks to William, Jackie, James, Anna, and Jeannie for extra work Saturday morning.

All cards are printed and cut - final assembly in class Monday.

Typographica's Favorite Typefaces of 2008

Nick Sherman introduces the editors' choices.

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Your career

Portfolios Due May 8 at Noon

After seeing these 11x17" sheets some of you made for our meetings I've decided to make this the format for your portfolio of work completed this semester. Please produce 2-3 11 x 17" (portrait, color, 1-sided) pages with examples of all projects - save as a .pdf in Course Folder > Portfolios, and print 1 set to turn in at the crit on May 8. 

Hey, all. XpedX is awesome, cheap, and is easy to get to.

For reference, their website is here.

If you're incredibly inspired, French papers and Mohawk papers are always very very nice, but you'll end up ordering more and have to wait a while for the shipping. That said, they have some fantastic papers that might work well for covers, if you're so inclined. You order Mohawk through the Strathmore website (how incestuous!) which also has some nice papers.

Happy printing!

Designer's Site With Stitched Book Project

Click here.

Typographic Space Still a Problem at DP

Space between the R and A reveals that DP still practicing poor typographic judgement.

DP Guilty of Typographic Offense

To Michael Gold, Design Editor at the Daily Pennsylvanian:

Dear Michael

We, the students and faculty of FNAR 266, Typography, are outraged by the negative letter spacing in the headline "Prof will join admin" on the cover of the April 13 issue. 

These letters need space! Your  kerning—it must be minus 100—is unacceptable! Typography is primarily about space: page space, word space, line space and yes, letter space! Someone needs to speak out for the space between letters and we, the members of this class, demand that the quality journalism you practice extend to the design you produce.

Sincerely, the students and faculty of FNAR 266, Typography.

Milton Glaser: How great design makes ideas new

Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?

Flickr pools

If you're looking for some interesting typography, there are a lot of Flickr photo pools that people submit images to. Bittbox.com collects some of these in an entry titled "17 Stimulating Flickr Groups to get You Typographically Inspired." So, if you're looking for a little inspiration, you should check these out.

To the Letter Born

from new york times:

Caroline, Kevin, Minjoo, Audrey - Printing Complete

Book Jackets Display

Pamphlet Typography

Here are some links to sites with sample spreads. The questions are: what is the page/spread size and how does the type fit onto that space?

some inspiration

Just for fun. Collage & mixed type by Paula Toros a student. Not much other info on her, though.
(via ilovetypography)

Typography Keyboard Layout

How to find all those special hidden characters on your keyboard.

New Dollar Sign Proposed by Congress to Reflect Economic Conditions

WASHINGTON D.C. — APRIL 1, 2009
To help stem the downward spiral of the United States economy Congress has proposed a new dollar symbol.


“Updating fonts on the world’s computers and devices would be a huge economic stimulus” said one representative after a late night session of the newly formed House Subcommittee – Font Economic Stimulus Technology Relief (FESTR). “The dollar is a shadow of its former self and the new design reflects this.”

Officials with the International Currency Authority were notified of the change and agreed that other currencies should be updated to aid other countries feeling the effects of the economic debacle.

To move forward quickly, Ascender Corporation (Elk Grove Village, IL) has been granted TARP money to begin production on, what it calls, “shovel ready” font designs. FESTR reviewed hundreds of submissions and selected the design for the New Dollar sign by Ascender’s Steve Matteson for its formulaic simplicity and visual clarity..

To be consistent with the value of the world’s currencies, Ascender is offering the new currency symbols at half-off. For more information on the new currency symbols visit www.ascendercorp.com/custom/currency/

Typography articles

Click here for a great website/resource for typography articles.