“New Yorkers or any of the city’s millions of visitors who walked along Madison Avenue in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s know her masterful posters for the Morgan Library. Scribes in the U.S. and abroad know her through her celebrated workshops. She is Alice Koeth, known professionally simply as Alice”
“How did Helvetica become the typographic celebrity that it is today… and why didn’t Univers land the role instead? In this piece from Print’s Spring 2016 Issue, Paul Shaw takes us on a guided tour through type history.”
A new publication about type. The focus is designers who uses type, create it, or just love it. The magazine is starting with a simple group blog. A preview printed edition is scheduled this autumn.
“The renowned digital type foundry’s collection includes the original paste-up for the Emigre logo, paste-ups for Emigre magazine and a complete run of the publication, as well as audio tapes of interviews, merchandise, ephemera, typeface development files, and type catalogs.”
“The face marks the centenary of the type design created by Edward Johnston in 1916. Monotype has worked with TfL over the years on a number of different projects, and was brought in to modify Johnston back in January.”
“Anchored by a major gift from graphic designer and collector Aaron Marcus, this exhibition presents a selection from SFMOMA’s permanent collection of graphic design since 1950. Typeface to Interface notes the shift from analog to digital in visual communication.”
“Your work may be selected by a notable group of jurors to appear in an exhibition at TypeCon2016: Resound […]. The exhibit will highlight speculation in typeface design in order to help new ideas inform future design efforts and enrich the cultural landscape.”
“Gimlet draws its inspiration from Georg Trump’s 1938 typeface, Schadow. I reimagined the oddball serif as an energetic contemporary workhorse, complete with three optical sizes and a flexible set of widths tailored for responsive layouts.”
To commemorate the life and work of Adrian Frutiger, the Type Directors Club asked renowned type designer Matthew Carter to speak about his old friend. Here you can watch the Livestream recording of the event.
