FontShuffle 1.0, FontShop’s new application for iPhone and iPod Touch, is the world’s fastest source of typographic inspiration. Combining the knowledge of the analogue world with new advanced possibilities of the digital mobile world, it offers new ways of finding and comparing typefaces, and of composing text samples.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?