More Herb Lubalin: His collaboration with Lou Dorfsman (Creative Director for CBS during its golden period) The Gastrotypographicalassemblage, was a monumental 3D wall that became an icon of modern typography. When CBS remodeled its quarters in the 90's, The Gastrotypographicalassemblage was dismantled and nearly discarded, but salvaged by designer Nick Fasciano. The remains were recently moved from his Astoria basement to Atlanta's Center for Design Study, where it is [...]
Cooper Union just opened its new Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography with an exhibition of works inspired by his expressive style. Justin Thomas Kay posted photos from his visit to the Lubalin archives on Flickr:
Typophile is a website/community with forums, news, a blog, and other resources, including a user-created Typewiki. Their parent company, Punchcut, created a traveling Typophile Film Festival - these opening titles demonstrate some great 3D type experiments. See video on YouTube
Typeface, a documentary from Kartemquin Films, is making the festival circuit. A struggling rural Wisconsin printing factory-turned-museum, The Hamilton Wood Type Museum, opens its doors once a month to artisans from across the Midwest, who arrive for workshops in the nearly lost art of letter press. The website for the project is appropriately type-stylish! Limited-edition letterpress prints are for sale to support the film, including this one by Boston-based [...]
More from Australia - this site for Wooden Toy Publishing has so much typographical eye candy that it's hard to know where to start. It looks so good that I don't care what's in it...
Luke Lucas is an Australian designer, typographer, and creative director of Lifelounge, a magazine and on-line portal for fashion, technology, art, photography, trash, travel and more. As a type designer, he prepared this typeface for an assignment from the NY Times: Luke's blog on Lifelounge.
Excerpts from the "Mark My Words" series by Brooklyn-based designer, Mark Miller. Images via Typography Served See also: Mark Miller's Dark Igloo Keyboard Video Puppeteer
Ouch. Arjan Benning, via Typography Served
More from the Imperial War Museum - a collection of posters from the Spanish Civil War. Artist: Lleó Date Range: 1936-1939 Artist: Cienas Date Range: 1936-1939 Images via VADS
Great article today in the Daily Beast's Art Beast column on Ed Ruscha ("roo-shay"): "The King of California Cool" I'm partial to these because my cat's name is Foo. Oof, 1963 Foo, 1965 Go to the artist's website for a comprehensive collection of his work.
In London there is a Women's Library, with an incredible collection of Suffrage Banners. One of the most prolific banner-makers, and founder of the Artists' Suffrage League, Mary Lowndes, published this pamphlet, the cover of which (as well as many as many of her banners and sketches) is in the VADS archives. Published by the Artists' Suffrage League, 1909 Actual banners, by Mary Lowndes, 1908. Here are some of [...]
I've been in a creative quandary - wondering where ideas are going to come from. Brian Eno has been the curator of the Oblique Strategies project since he and Peter Schmidt (d. 1980) began it as a deck of 113 cards in 1975. Original editions of the deck go for eBay for hundreds of dollars, and several subsequent editions have been printed. Of course, now there are Oblique Strategies [...]
