An excellent and extensive research post titled ‘Origins of ABC’ from John Boardley at I love Typography (ILT). A marvellous piece of work and a fascinating read, too!
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- alphabet, english, phoenician, words
No, the blog and content publishing company isn’t blocked in China. This is the other thing where they use movable components to manually lay out and print documents.
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- china, computer, decline, movable type
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- beauty, decorative, font, handmade, jessica hische, letter, style
The Bureau des affaires typographiques is a French type foundry with quirky (and occasionally lewd) sense of humour. Other than the Le Kerning video, there are two more – La Bonne idée and Le back office.
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- font, foundry, french, funny, kerning, sex
Custom electronics + mechanical parts + lights + algorithmically generated word sequences = Pretty awesome.
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- algorithm, electronics, light, mechanical
The complete works of Samuel Beckett, with a specially designed typefaces for the covers. Bold and beautiful work by the London studio, A2/SW/HK.
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- a2swhk, cover, samuel beckett, typeface
Swedish futurist, Anders de Flon, designed this typeface all within a 9 pixel area. Obviously, it has some issues if you were going to use it on a day to day basis (a rapid failure of your ability to see might become a creeping problem) but it’s one of those things that makes you wonder why you didn’t think of first. (Well, I am wondering why I didn’t think of it first anyway.)
By the way, if any of you knows Mr De Flon well, I implore you to please update his badly written Wikipedia entry — it currently reads like a horrible English to Chinese to English translation.
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- brand, consultant, future, minimal, swedish
Beautiful hand crafted type and illustrations from Alison Carmichael.
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- custom, handmade, script, style, typeface
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- font, scientific, table, typeface, visualization
‘World of Logotypes’ is an out-of-print book from the 70s that chronicled the logos of that era. Eric Carl scanned some pages of the book and has put it up on the internets for the world to marvel at.
[Via ISO50]
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- 70s, al cooper, book, logo, style, typeface
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