The Type Directors Club (TDC) hosted their second-annual “Type Drives Culture” conference this March in New York City’s SVA Theater. The event’s dozen-plus speakers and panelists extolled the reciprocating connection between typography and culture, each adding a new angle or industry to the conversation.
TYPE’s first event, a one-day conference in New York May 25, devoted to the typography, photography, and design of Rolling Stone. Meet the people who made it, hear how they did it, and find out what they learned along the way.
Typographics, a “design festival for people who use type” launched the website for its fourth-year event; Ralf Herrmann published an essay explaining why not every letter you see comes from a specific font; and Alice Savoie released a free typeface based on the various forms of the animal kingdom. Read these and other stories in this week's typography roundup.
Essays and case studies on variable fonts, a brand new typography conference, new fonts from TypeTogether, Swiss Typefaces, FontFont, and more. Here’s the eleventh week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
The end of 2017 marked the conclusion of Russia’s two-year-long tourism brand competition. The winner's colorful and dynamic avant-garde brand system goes into effect this year.
New fonts from Frere-Jones Type, Monotype, TYPETR, and more. Here’s the tenth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
Slate's recent “Redux” makes use of bright colors, hand-drawn elements, layers upon layers, and two strong typefaces.
Roger Black takes a look at the new redesign of The Guardian, muses on a reader’s reaction to change of any kind, and offers an uninvited fix of the logo’s letter spacing.
A typographic white paper, The Guardian's new masthead, plus new fonts from Lost Type, Black[Foundry], Hoefler & Co., and more. Here’s the ninth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
Coca-Cola controversy usually surrounds ingredients; this week, the conversation turns to type, as the new TCCC Unity polarizes the type world.
New fonts from A2-Type, Black[Foundry], Monotype, Adele Type, and more. Here are the seventh and eighth weeks of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
Pentagram revealed its branding for Buffy, a cruelty-free, vegan-safe duvet company.
TypeCon 20 announced, plus new fonts from Commercial Type, Black[Foundry], Letters from Sweden, and more. Here’s the sixth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
Two European schools—Masaryk University and University of Bergen Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design—unveiled new identities this week. The brands offer contemporary typographic treatments, lending themselves to comparison.
Fonstand released for Windows, plus new fonts from Colophon Foundry, TypeTogether, Swiss Typefaces, and more. Here’s the fifth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
In early 2016, Rachel Elnar started Typography Dojo as a “way to learn more from [her] friends.” Today, the free webcast is among the internet’s most impressive typography resources, boasting more than forty interviews over nearly two years.
Zürich pays homage to its design roots with a new identity that could be confused for the work of Müller-Brockmann himself.
FontLab Studio VI released, plus new fonts from Paratype, A2-TYPE, Linotype, and more. Here’s the fourth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
New fonts from DJR, Robert Slimbach, Lost Type, and more. Here’s the third week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
