India Seeks Design for Rupee Monetary Symbol
The Government of India wishes to introduce a symbol for its currency the rupee, and is organising through the Ministry of Finance a public competition. The BBC extensively reported this, and interviewed FontShop’s Euro experts on this topic. Erik Spiekermann is his usual experienced and knowledgeable self in this radio interview, and I myself contributed a number of quotations to the online article.
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Hoping For Stability
After some continuing provider-related problems The FontFeed gets back on track and on with the show.
Read moreRobothon Is Not A Manga
I am currently attending Robothon 2009 at the KABK in The Hague. I will post a report on Unzipped when it is over.
Read moreTDC2 2009 | The Display Faces
As there never is any background information for the TDC2 winners on the TDC website The FontFeed compiled this overview of the Display faces.
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Winners of The Worldwide Logo Design Annual Announced
Wolda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world.
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New Microsite For FF DIN
DINfont.com is – after metaserif.com and trixiefont.com – the third “FontFontFocus” website, entirely dedicated to Albert-Jan Pool’s insanely popular information design sans.
Read moreThe Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis
The Crisis of Credit Visualized – a marvellous piece of motion graphics by Jonathan Jarvis – manages to quickly supply the essence of the credit crisis to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.
Read moreThe FontFeed Outages
Due to technical difficulties beyond our control The Fontfeed has been behaving erratically these past few days. Normal service will resume as soon as the situation – you know – normalises.
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