Category: News

Dear Typostammtisch-Besucher (if any of you are still reading this website), I have some news for you! Well, when I heard it yesterday, it was certainly news for me. From now on, I’ll be more of a Schöfferhofer Weizen fan than I’ve been in the past. You see, for years I’ve been drinking Schöfferhofer beer,…

Kindle? Why I love Chip Kidd, Reason #6. A great graphic, too. Via Design Observer’s Observed.

It seems that the British Parliament is considering a design change of national proportion. The Union Flag, flown in its current configuration since 1801, may perhaps be updated to graphically include Wales. You can read more about the discussion on BBC News. The Welsh flag is not a cross on a color field, like the…

At the beginning of November, I had to submit a draft of my brief for the typeface that I’ll be designing through the summer. That was difficult enough, but today I selected the topic for my essay, which I guess I’ll be spending much of Christmas time writing. Due in mid-January, it is the first…

Once again, Karsten Lücke proves why he is my hero. First Litteratra, then TipToe and Grotext. Now check out a new collection of links at his foundry website. The page lists resources online for all things OpenType-related. There is even a “Miscellaneous links, discussion, [and] controversy” category. My favorite!

My UoR classmates make better lettering for their blogs. Just check out the tops of these two sites; my upper left-hand corner feels rather naked by comparison: Joke maakt letters and Mathieu in Reading (Hot Dog is his nickname).

iLT is the new Typographica! Although Typographica (formerly on Blogspot, then at typographi.ca, and later typographi.com) continues to amaze with thoughtful beautifully-designed rotating headers, and delightfully insightful articles aimed at the guild typeface designers and fine typographers, the site does not have a very high new-article-per-year ratio anymore. The rise of I Love Typography, launched…

Don’t be alarmed by the slight changes I’m adding to my site’s template. I’m working on the TypeOff.’s layout this weekend. Nothing big should change, but I hope to make the site appear a bit more interesting, and a tad more informative as well! (TypeOff. is not the new anything…)

I’m in Richmond, Virginia this weekend. This is my first trip here. My sister and her fiancé have been living in Virginia for about two years, and their wedding will be celebrated this afternoon. I really don’t have much else to write about the event, but I’m sure that I will enjoy it. As far…

When Anke came from Berlin last week to visit me, she brought me this bag of goodness. Actually, the gift has very, very little to do with Berlin. Its branding is über-American, and must only be found in Germany at all because the chain hasn’t warranted itself successful enough to produce localised printing. But never-mind.…

Last night, Mathieu, Yvonne, Joke, and I were complaining about how, for a city the size of Reading, there is so little to do. We looked up the city on Wikipedia to find its approximate population size, and then compared this to other cities we each had lived in, some of which were smaller, but…

Get Your Stripes—P22 and the International House of Fonts proudly announce Zebra. Zebra was originally designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer in 1965 for the Stempel foundry in Germany. This unique font was designed as a two-color script face and is now available digitally for the first time. This new P22/IHOF release presents six separate fonts based…

Just in time for TypeCon 2007, Chris Lozos designed a t-shirt to advertise his typefaces. “Dezom” is the presumable name of his not-yet-existant foundry; Chris has been advertising it at at least two SoTA conferences. Anyday now, I expect his site to go live—or at least to go beyond a splash page—and take both the…