Type City

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This stunning piece of artwork was created by Hong Seon Jang, an artist based out of NYC. I create works that evoke a fundamental recognition of our space and environment and imply physical vulnerability in our daily life. These ideas evolved from my interest in studying the similarities between…

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Type @ Cooper: An Insight

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An great insight from Matthew Wyne sharing his experiences from the Cooper Type Condensed program. During the video he talks through the program structure and some of his experiences on creating a typeface. Definitely worth a watch. More information on Matthew The Coopertype Condensed Program

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Typesetting the web

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A great presentation from Kyle Fox at WordCamp Edmonton in November 2012, great advice for typographic beginners and pros alike. Typography is the vessel that carries an ideas to your audience. In addition to being beautiful, proper typography affords your message credibility, clarity, and…

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Typicons

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A very useful and nicely designed set of type icons by Stephen Hutchings. An interesting approach to using webfonts, replacing each character in the alphabet with a useful icon. The best thing about the typicon set is they come with pre-made css classes so you don’t have to remember what…

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Typographic Matchmaking Poster

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A beautiful letter-pressed poster combining typefaces. A wonderful showcase of typography and the art of letterpress. Matching contrasting typefaces is almost as difficult as finding that special someone. When it works it seems effortless, like the two were meant for each other. For the next 16…

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Typotheque release Supernova

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Last month the very talented bunch at Typotheque released Supernova, a new script like typeface in a range of cuts and weights. The Supernova family has five weights, making it versatile enough to be used as a body typeface and daring enough to be a display typeface, as you can see from the images…

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/Uncovered

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They are a group of no identity. They are deprived of one. After a year’s interviewing and photographing, they are uncovered. The Chinese illegal immigrants in the UK revealed their true selves in this book. If a book-cover is where people identify a book, no identity, like the ones in it, is o…

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Welcoming Trajan Sans and Lithos

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Both faces are script style small cap only typefaces, With a classic cut I am sure these will be welcome additional to the Typekit library. Trajan Sans Trajan Sans is unique in its fidelity to the form of the highly-regarded letters inscribed at the base of the Trajan column. Trajan Sans can be…

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Words are Pictures

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A wonderfully creative collection of typographic work from Award winning designer Craig Ward. Craig originally from Lincolnshire England now runs a sucessful design studio Words are pictures based in New York. You can view more of Craig work his Behance Page

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