December 14 (11) 12:25 pm
House Industries: Interview with Ken Barber by Gestalten
House Industries has been producing their premier league retro design and their true love…Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! since 1993.
Drawing will make you a better letterer. If you’re into typography – this one’s for you.
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December 13 (11) 07:47 am
Richard Holt aka Holster® is a graphic designer in London.. and future time traveller with very nice projects to show.




December 12 (11) 17:22 pm
This is a hair-pulling-frustration-triggering day! Had to put on my geeky-nerdy-tecky gloves. Love to hate technology and all ingredients amply supplied to feed it – thank you. Not that I have ‘debugged’ everything.. but enough that workstations can now be accessed.
And as talented Bram Vanhaeren who offers an idea everyday – aptly says in this poster: The person that works the hardest wins!
Send me the prize. I deserve it.

December 5 (11) 11:14 am
Games We Played is one of the many initiatives under the Singapore Memory Project, an ambitious undertaking to curate the people’s memories of Singapore through the ages, so that generations of the future can have a past they can hold on to.
Oh so lovely A-Z animated project.
And what about these ‘tunes’?




December 5 (11) 10:59 am
Kern Type, the kerning game. How much do you know about typography. Test your skills and see.

December 2 (11) 11:30 am
Quand mamie balance de la typographie, c’est du lourd ! When Grandma throws you typographic posters – watch-out! – (liberal translation) is a in-you-face photographic / typographic essay by Jonathan Menet.
Granma has got this don’t mess with me assertive attitude. Statements are hilarious.
A it’s Friday must-see.



November 30 (11) 09:46 am
Playtype™ is a foundry font shop created by brand and design agency e-Types, as a showcase of more than 20 years of type design – from commissioned works to fonts created out of passion.
Digging this very cool website w/ left – right navigational panels. The layout is funky and well behaved as to placement of visuals showcasing some of the fonts.



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