Handwritten by Typographers
An interesting post about the handwriting of Typographers, questioning how their own, most personal way of written communication informs or affects their designs of the building blocks of written communication for…
Wayfinder
Stuart Lambon's open-source typeface Wayfinder is a sans serif optimized for easy reading at speed for wayfinding applications. Free to download and use, includes arrows. (via twitter: @davejorr)
a big, crazy typography problem
Nick Paumgarten's fascinating account of the challenges and considerations that arose in laying out the names of the victims of 9/11 on the ground zero memorial appears in the latest edition…
Visual Twitter
As if Twitter wasn't enough of a time-suck, along comesDribbble, a repository of designer/developer's visual creations. Membership is by invitation only, to keep out the riffraff. But they do let…
Complexity Simplified
I saw a really compelling infographic recently that portrayed how the word of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden spread via twitter. It turns out that one primary…
Down Below the Street: Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Sounds like a wonderfully well-researched and well-told account of the history of the struggle to standardize on Helvetica for the NYC subway signage system by historian and typographer Paul Shaw.…
Retro Logos
A nice B&W flickr gallery of retro logos dating from the 60's and 70's mostly. Some will be familiar, some surprising, but all interesting. (via swiss-miss)
Livesurface
An interesting niche player in the stock photography realm,Livesurface sells images designed to be transformed by signage, packaging, clothing, etc. designers into renderings. A smart idea that could be a…