The Beauty of Typography: Writing Systems and Calligraphy of the World. An extensive introduction to a number of non-Western writing systems.
Pentagon brownie recipe
How to make brownies, Pentagon style. The 26 page specification, also known as MIL-C-44072C, is available for your perusal.
El Vética t-shirt. Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador.
El Vética t-shirt.
Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador. El Vética, also known as El Kernudo, fought out of the small town of San Serif. He held the Mexican Inter-Continental belt for an unprecedented 7 years, from 1977–84. He also starred in several telenovelas, most notably Las esposas del Luchador and El Santo y sus Súper Amigos.
Big bang
The Big Bang was an explosion of space, not in space.
The Big Bang wasn’t an explosion of stuff like atoms or molecules, it was an explosion of a place and instance, it was the creation of when and where. Before the Big Bang there was simply nothing, there was no ‘where’ nor was there a ‘when’. It doesn’t even make sense to say ‘before the Big Bang’.
The differences between Akzidenz, Univers, Helvetica and Arial
Facebook privacy
A bewildering tangle of options. To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. The site has gone from walled garden to glass box on a busy street corner.
Unigrid by Massimo Vignelli for the National Park Services. See
FTBLL t-shirts by Blanka.
FTBLL t-shirts by Blanka.
Elevens from Gradiate. Elevens are a new range of T-Shirts
Elevens from Gradiate.
Elevens are a new range of T-Shirts celebrating hypothetical all-time best XI’s of various football clubs and countries. This England design features 11 classic players plus the one manager to bring that elusive trophy to the home of football.
Helbotica by Jonathon Yule.
Helbotica by Jonathon Yule.
Helvetica-tized by Micah Monserrat. I’ve been heavily into social media
Helvetica-tized by Micah Monserrat.
I’ve been heavily into social media lately and decided to redesign logotypes for some of the sites I frequent…building them solely upon the Helvetica Neue typeface. Consider it an experiment in Helvetica.
Helvetica T-Shirt. I wonder if it’s supposed to be ironic
Helvetica T-Shirt. I wonder if it’s supposed to be ironic that it’s set in Arial.