Typography

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Steven Heller|Essays

Vanity Fair Type: 1930 Style

Vanity Fair cover illustrated by Paolo Garetto, December 1931 In 1929, Vanity Fair magazine, the jewel in the crown of Condé Nast’s publishing empire, made typographic history. Influenced by Modern design trends throughout Europe, …

Paola Antonelli|Slideshows

The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy

F Rat, 2007 from Oded Ezer: The Typographer's Guide to the Galaxy Have you ever looked at your handwriting from the other side of the sheet, holding the paper against the light? It is as displacing as watching your own photographic …

Matthew Peterson|Essays

The Cuckoo Bird and the Keyboard

Easily the most maligned key on your computer’s keyboard lies just to the left of “return” and represents what appear to be single and double quotation marks. It is a cuckoo’s egg in the designer’s nest. It doesn’t belong. …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Type Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

About a year ago, I participated in a student portfolio review involving nearly a dozen American schools, many (most?) exhibiting the classic projects that characterize all undergraduate design programs — the color studies, the …

William Drenttel|Slideshows

Stephen Doyle: A Few Words

Stephen Doyle, "WAS/SAW Poster," American Center for Design, 1994Between 1985 and 1997, I was partners with Stephen Doyle and Tom Kluepfel at Drenttel Doyle Partners in New York City. While Tom stayed home to mind the shop, Stephen and I …

William Drenttel|Essays

Wood That We Could

Invitation to exhibition at Moss, detail, designer unknown, 2007Remember back in the late 1980s, when Minneapolis was a hotbed of graphic creative energy? Back when brochures were tied together with straw braid and twigs? As a counterpoint …

Rob Giampietro|Essays

The Fonts of Summer

American Apparel product page featuring ITC Grouch, 2007.Some things are made for summer. The summer hit, for example. Recently, I'm thinking of "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley, "Hey Ya" by Outkast, or, this summer, Rhianna's "Umbrella" (which …

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

Barnbrook Bible: A Graphic Autobiography

Barnbrook Bible, cover, 2007.Jonathan Barnbrook's new book, Barnbrook Bible, ranks amongst the most ambitious personal projects undertaken by any graphic designer. It is a 330-page monograph bursting with dazzling refinement. Throughout …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Harry Potter and The Enchanted Letterforms

Warner Brothers Pictures, 2007.Followers of the Harry Potter films have long been groomed to anticipate a certain amount of change, particularly where the director is concerned. (After Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón and Mike Newell, …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Why Is This Font Different From All Other Fonts?

Bagel, designed by Per Jørgensen, 2002.Earlier this spring, our local art-supply store closed its doors, but not before slashing the prices of its remaining inventory. Among life's many temptations, the promise of discount art …

Michael Bierut|Essays