In 2008, I pointed you to the website of publisher Scott & Nix, Inc. and their pick of “100 Typographic Books”. Charles Nix, who curated the list, described it like this: “One hundred books about typography might seem like a lot, but actually, it just scratches the surface. Consider this a start. Below are a […]
Monotype
Monotype, the rebirth of Johnston, Transport of London, and a feat of design
Tangled web huh? I’ve never been a huge athletic shoe design aficionado, but these type-centric shoes caught my eye in a recent post from the AIGA and I took a moment to track down the story. As it turns out, Monotype has given new life to the typeface Edward Johnston created for the London Transport […]
Would you subscribe to a killer collection of fonts?
Subscription software has been speculated about for over a decade. Lots of us speculated about using a dumb terminal to access software in the cloud and the possible scenario of logging into your account and of finding new features that had appeared overnight. Clearly, a version of that world is now a reality. I subscribe […]