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Damn! This is an expensive book. I want! And if you love 16th-century type, you want it, too. Thank you, James Mosley.

At the end of December, lists crop up around the Internet summarizing the best fonts of the previous year. 2008 is no exception. I’m building a re-cap. The first list that came into my RSS-Feed was Ivo’s (in German, with good images). See it at Fontwerk.com List number two is I Love Typography’s, which is…

On October 17th, I posted my personal recipe for happiness. Now that 2008 is coming to an end, how I am coming along? DB Mobility BahnCard 100 iPhone 3G 8GB Move to Berlin Get a dog Achieve personal bliss As for step three, I guess that I’m about halfway to where I want to be.…

Most of the Christmas gifts that I give and receive, I am sad to admit, are not necessarily typographic or design-related in nature. But every now and then, something extraordinary does end up underneath the Christmas tree. This year, that was a copy of Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie,…

Every year on a date much later than the fourth Thursday of November, I cook an American Thanksgiving feast. Saturday evening’s was the largest of my endeavors to date. Anke and I prepared dinner for 12 in her Berlin apartment. Everyone managed to fit in; theoretically, there should have been about two or three square…

I started writing this little post on Monday, in a bit of feeverish anticipation of FontShuffle’s release (pre-announced over the weekend). What is FontShuffle, you ask? FontShop’s Jürgen Siebert writes (in German…), “wouldn’t it be nice to have a type specimen catalog that would fit in your shirt pocket?” Now FontShuffle is out, and you…

Günter Gerhard Lange (1921–2008), a lion of the German and global typeface design communities, passed away yesterday. He was 87 years old. I’m going to light a candle.

Following the tremendous success of the first issue, spatium Magazin is pleased to present the second DVD of typeface specimens from Hans Reichardt’s collection: Bleisatzschriften des 20. Jahrhunderts international, or 20th-Century international (i.e., non-German) foundry types. The DVD includes scans of typeface specimen from foundries and printers in Belgium, the Czech Republich, England, India, USA,…

Faithful TypeOff. readers who do not read German or keep up-to-date with Austrian design media may be unaware of the new thunder of awesomeness that is descending upon Vienna. Now, Vienna is what I would normally consider a sleepy village somewhere past the Alps. No longer! The powers of darkness (I speak of graduates from…

How to rebrand a country: Redesigning America 2.0. Thanks, Miguel!

I don’t have to tell you about 36point.com, do I? I love these guys… their podcasts have been a must since the Be A Design Cast days. Finally, they are adding more content to their site, including a kick-ass tri-weekly graphic-design-nerd comic. Today, the most truest thing I read on the Internet in who-knows-how-long was…

MATD-alum and the Colour Grey co-founder Ian Moore seems to be writing for Design Assembly, some sort of new website that I don’t know anything about yet. At first glimpse, its design style seems to exude über-English contemporary-ness. Whatever the case, his article on making geometric type work is worth reading, and worth recommending to…

How about an indepently-conducted interview with Prof. Hermann Zapf, who turns 90 today (Nov. 8, 2008)? The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has just what you’re looking for! The FAZ may be Germany’s most prestigious newspaper… think the Wall Street Journal, with more content. If you read German, here you go. If you don’t, try what Babelfish…

Looking for a great Christmas present for a beer-lover? Look no further! Via Coudal Partners