MetaFilter posts tagged with typography and graphicdesign

The Secret Law of Page Harmony

Doleful Creature — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:04:55 -0800

A method to produce the perfect book (single-link graphic design essay).

The ascending and descending trajectory of grunge typography

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:44:29 -0800

Timeless Message

Miko — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:39:04 -0800

The story behind the iconic poster Keep Calm and Carry On rediscovered in 1991 at Barter Books, has been covered here before, but not in this lovely short video. And not with the new iPhone app.

I just need some space (between sentences)

escabeche — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:26:48 -0800

Slate says putting more than one space between sentences is "totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong." Microsoft's Bill Hall agrees. LaTex does not. The American Psychological Association used to agree but has changed its mind. The exhaustive Wikipedia article on sentence spacing has a predictably prickly discussion page.

Art imitates life imitates art with Canter’s Deli font

joeclark — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:21:36 -0800

Canter’s Deli font comes full circle. Graphic designer makes actual typeface family out of casual script seen on sign for classic L.A. deli, Canter’s. (Wins award!) Youngest, hippest member of the family that owns the diner later independently Googles "Canter's Deli" + font, locates type designer, then hires him to custom-design a Canter’s “gourmet food truck.” “[W]hat was interesting to me was that this whole scenario could not have happened without the magic of the Internet and search engines.”

Perspective

mattdidthat — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:28:21 -0800

Extracts of Local Distance combines fragments of existing architectural photography into multilayered shapes, so the resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view alongside the original views of the architect and photographer. Joseph Egan is a student at Chelsea College of Art & Design, and he's been experimenting with anamorphic typography.

John Mayer gets some really bitchin’ typography

joeclark — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:11:24 -0800

John Mayer gets some really bitchin’ typography. House Industries (last MeFi mention: 1999!) designs a limited-edition tour poster for the crooner who constantly steals the show on TMZ. “[U]ntil they come up with a JPEG format that makes metallics shimmer like a Solid Gold dancer’s outfit, there just isn’t a substitute for physically walking around a serigraph and watching the light bouncing off metallic and fluorescent inks.” Irony alert: You will experience these metallic and fluorescent inks via JPEG.

One space after the period, please.

thebestsophist — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:32:51 -0800

Read Between the Leading, is a podcast for those with a love of good design and typography hosted by two students from SCAD. Season two just started with an interview with brand designer, David Airey, previous episodes of RBtL include discussions on information visualization, the future of web design with Jason Santa Maria (previously), speculative work and why graphic design is serious business (previously). So far, the show has 22 episodes, including:

An interview with John Boardley from ILoveTypography (previously: 1, 2, 3, 4).
Stephen Coles of Typographica (previously: 1, 2, 3)
Nick Sherman from MyFonts (previously: 1, 2, 3).
Veronika and Jose from TypeTogether, whom worked on expanding the character set for Helvetica.

If that's not enough typography for you, many other new type oriented sites have cropped up the last few months, including Typedia, a new resource for anyone trying to look for background information on a typeface or type foundry. WeLoveTypography, a sort of FFFFound for type, and read about major progress in web typography and how the web is expanding beyond Arial, Georgia, and Verdana.

Cartype - gives a whole new meaning to E-type

1f2frfbf — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:51:30 -0800

Cartype has a huge repository of vehicle logos and other related typography. In addition, you can see collections such as shield and crest emblems, emblems with animals, and hand-painted type on cars. They cover European automotive history from the near mythic to the exotic. They also cover American iron from the old to the malaise years to the cutting edge of new.

Your own Massimo Vignelli NYC subway map ($299)

joeclark — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:42:48 -0800

Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 NYC subway map is back Yours for the low, low price of 299 bucks for one copy of the limited edition of 500. (Previous MeFi comments on the famed design, which the New York MTA eventually shitcanned. [Via.])

Looking for some dumb quotes?

porn in the woods — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:45:52 -0800

Apostrophe Atrophy highlights dumb quotes appearing in print, an unforgivable graphic design gaffe.
Just toggle the checkbox in InDesign/Quark already!

A Website about Corporate Identity.

JBennett — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:16:12 -0800

A Website about Corporate Identity. A large archive of corporation logos with design credits, typeface identification (or, at least the typographic roots of the ID's.) and Pantone color information. Not at all complete, but it's a very nice start. Hopefully it will continue to expand. via: Grain Edit (design blog)

"Your brain knows the shape of the word."

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:06:01 -0800

How the new type standard for American road signage reduces halation and improves readability.

Lettermade

ColdChef — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:58:51 -0800

Lettermade This ongoing project, started in 1998, is aimed at documenting, appreciating, and recontextualizing vernacular letterforms and typography. (Design dorks rejoice!)

mandering

jessamyn — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:35:30 -0800

Mandership is mostly concerned with graphic and industrial design, interface engineering, typography, semiotics, and visualization, but it's more. Learn about how the Declaration of Independence wound up in the Ukraine (did it?) a short history of telephone numbers, book spines, and of course simplicity of design. From the same folks who brought you the Optimus keyboard. (previously)

Wicked Web 2.0 resource!!!!11!1!

Rothko — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:28:08 -0800

A literal cornucopia of online web design resources to help you keep on top of specifications and sites related to CSS, accessibility, graphic design (color tables and theory), DOM, typography, and much, much more...