Ghost Typeface In ProSieben Television Movie Der Seewolf

Verena Gerlach obviously was paying attention while watching the trailer to the ProSieben television movie in two parts “Der Seewolf”, an adaptation of Jack London’s 1904 novel. She noticed a glaring anachronism in the lettering on the schooner “Ghost”.

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Font Karaoke* For Central St Martins Type Project

We all know those YouTube videos in which students imitate their idols and end up reaching a larger audience with their song than the original artist. Well, it’s possible that the FF Meta video of Central St Martins design student Fran Marchesi might cause a dam-burst.

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Pentawards 2008 | The Crème de La Crème of Packaging Design

Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. Last weekend the 2008 winners were announced at the Luxe Pack trade fair in Monaco. The respected packaging blog The Dieline has the exclusive right to present the winners in detail – with a couple of marvellous typographic solutions amongst them.

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Notes on the Frankfurt Book Fair

I was at the Frankfurt Book Fair for one and a half day, where I had more discussions than I actually saw books. The host country this year was Turkey. The labyrinth logo was omnipresent.

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Letters Are Pictures of Things, Pt. 1: Garamond Powerline

Daniel Adolph of German design bureau 0c/0m/0y/0k has created Garamond Powerline, a typeface whose letters are built using photographs of powerlines.

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54th Type Directors Club of NY Show at the Frankfurt Book Fair

After a one year break publishing house Hermann Schmidt Mainz in collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair will exhibit TDC 54, the current Type Directors Club of NY Show.

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Questions About All Caps Setting

Is all caps setting really so poorly readable that one can’t use it in headlines of let’s say maximum three lines, or is the unfavourable effect negligible?

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Lack of Typographic Imagination: Stating The Obvious

The Flickr group LTypI: Lack of Typographic Imagination collects pictures of logos where the name – or parts of the name – is derived from the typeface used to set the logo in.

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