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Stunning work, as always, from MK12.

Visit the site and download the free font while you’re at it.

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A stencil font with closed counters!

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  • font, free, german, stencil

 

A fun, retro clip that shows you what you need in order to think and come up with ideas.

Smashing.

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  • font, retro, short film, video

 

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

 

Nice poster, grouped by san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed

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  • font, scientific, table, typeface, visualization

 

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A magic marker indeed!

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The all new YouWorkForThem has arrived
Order, download, browse and enjoy the new site.

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Keming

Helvetica looked at Arial and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Arial replied “Well, Aksidenz do happen”

What type of diabetes is a graphic designer most likely to get diagnosed with?
Type 1

A typographer’s favorite hotel in Las Vegas/casino in Singapore?
The Sans

A font walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, we don’t serve your type here” and he called the Serif.

What typeface do fish fear most?
Gill Sans

Favourite Bob Marley song
“I Shot The Serif”

Favourite Madonna song
“Justify My Love”

Why did the graphic designer go see the psychic?
He wanted to see what was in his Futura.

Arial looked at Helvetica and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Helvetica replied “Well, you’re no Ms Univers yourself!”

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  • arial, Design, font, graphic, helvetica, joke, typographer

 

This is so awesome!
Another piece of brilliance from Yugo Nakamura

[Thanks, Steve!]

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  • flash, font, japan, kanji, typeface, yugo nakamura

 

Nice anagrams and even better prints

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  • anagram, bag, eastpak, font, print, tit, typeface, typography

 

Poster by Eivind Søreng Molvaer — limited edition screen prints are available

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  • clever, eivind molvaer, font, italic, oblique, poster

 

Neo Tech, designed by Sebastian Lester

Beautifully geometrical, Neo Tech is a superbly designed sans font. We have been using it for a client at work for a couple of months already, and it’s a joy to use. It’s available from fonts.com for about S$80.

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  • font, Sebastian Lester, technologic, typeset

 

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