happy new year
‘Ras as-Sana’ drawn in Kufic style lettering.
TYPE 101 > 2009
happy hanukkah
Hebrew lettering, inspired by Ben Shahn.
think löçãl
Drawing a masthead is a nice change of pace. While a typeface contains hundreds of different glyphs, a masthead is usually just several letters long. You even know what order they go in. In contrast, the parts of a typeface can be assembled in almost any sequence and the letter drawer must plan for that.
There [...]
“Peace Has Broken Out”
That was the tweet at least — a tweet being a Twitter or Twitster writing a headline and delivering it globally at text size, accompanied by a big picture of themselves or something.
But what am I saying — I’m doing it again: Writing a blog. Writing a blog on web fonts. Writing a blog [...]
New Faces in Washington
Last week the venerable Washington Post unveiled its new design, eight months in the making. More a “tweak” than an extreme makeover, the redesign was accomplished by an in-house team in collaboration with Roger Black and his studio. Charles Apple presents a very thorough review of the newspaper’s structural and design changes on his Visual [...]
