Category: News

spatium Magazin (without an e) in Germany has just released a DVD containing a collection of ca. 3,000 images scanned from the pages of a myriad of 20th century German type foundry catalogs and specimen. The news announcements and forum discussions so far have all been in German. This offer is so good that it…

One flight down, two to go. I’m in Delhi again, waiting for my flights to Amsterdam and London. But I’m only thinking about my laptop. After days of being buggy after waking up, my MacBook Pro’s keyboard and trackpad were fizzy all day on Tuesday and Wednesday. Yesterday, they stopped working all together. I don’t…

Tomorrow (May 14) through May 24: In India! First Delhi, then Jaipur, Mumbai, and Pune. See you there, maybe. Links, images, and recaps are sure to follow.

A new plug-in analyzer (and so much more) for FontLab Studio has just been released: Autopsy, by Yanone. This looks like it is going to be fantastic. My recommendation? Start using Autopsy now! Via FontBlog.

Thanks to Fiona and John, I came across a blog devoted to writing systems from India, typography, design, and the like. It is called Hindi Rinny, and I’ve already subscribed to its RSS feed. Perhaps you should, too? After all, what’s one more feed! Here’s a direct link to the site.

Today in Berlin, a plebiscite was held to try to stop the city government from closing down the historic inner-city airport Tempelhof. The percentage of voters who turned out wasn’t high enough to make the election count. Whatever… even if this vote had carried, its results still wouldn’t have been binding on the government. Dear…

Tired of trying to keep track of all those new spelling rules in German? Just which orthographic system is the most appropriate anyway? Ever feel like giving up on the discussion altogether? Surf over to the Berlin design studio Redesign Deutschland to find out how the language could be changed even further. Their new orthographic…

Florian reminded me yesterday that their is still time to vote for DOT, a music video by Jörg Petri. DOT has been selected by some sort of film competition—and by golly, it should win! Don’t know how you can rig it to let you vote if you don’t have a German postcode… just try anyway.

We need to talk about Eurostile. This typeface does not get a lot of love. I think this may have to do with its overuse during the 1980s and 1980s. Popular throughout the phototype-era, it was quickly digitized, and must have become part of the first wave of font families available to graphic designers after…

Hollywood, there’s a new font in town. Well, maybe not exactly new. No doubt, Trajan may still be the movie font. But it no longer reigns supreme. As Kirby points out in the first link above, Futura Bold has already taken over the comedy market. One more font is coming up through the ranks: Bank…

Three great reasons why we in the graphic design community pay for fonts instead of expecting to get them for free. Via TypEdu.

FF Utility is a new typeface family from Lukas Schneider, released through FontShop International’s FontFont label. I’m not sure when the typeface was exactly brought to market, but it seems like it was sometime at the beginning of the year. It is difficult for me to write about this design, as I’ve anticipated its release…

I just saw a 1964 movie, The Fall of the Roman Empire, which was on television here this afternoon. You should check it out, especially if you’ve seen Gladiator. Actually this film really is just Gladiator, without the CGI-effects, the brilliant musical score, and the touching Russell Crowe feelings-athon. It even had a little bit…