ScreenFonts: Watchmen, Sunshine Cleaning, Slumdog Millionaire, Duplicity, The Great Buck Howard
I hope you all enjoyed a happy Easter (and Easter Monday for us Europeans), and possibly some time off last week and/or this one. My wife and I are just back from a week in Egypt, just enough to recharge our solar batteries. The FontFeed seems to have dozed off a little during my absence, so let’s remedy this with a brand spanking new episode of ScreenFonts. It looks like I’m getting back on track with the movie poster reviews – we’re exactly halfway April and here’s the overview of the March releases.
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Under Consideration Department of Design document the creation of the new logo for TypeCon2009 on their website.
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To celebrate the new issue 71 of the printed Eye magazine, Eye is having its first-ever Type Week on the blog.
Read morePortrait of Matthew Carter, Type Laminitis
The Washington Post’s portrait of Matthew Carter made its way to a blog by means a little detour through translation softwares, with hilarious results.
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For the cover of its April edition British trade magazine Creative Review had Grandmother India Design letter an original Indian Taxi.
Read moreFaceOut Books Documents The Design of Book Covers
The weekly blog FaceOut Books focuses on the process, the successes and the failures, and overcoming any obstacles in book cover design.
Read moreThe Most Sportsmanlike Way To Design Letters
Takahiro Yamaguchi used the topography of Shibuya, Tokyo to design letter forms for his Urbanized Typeface project.
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The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.
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