Palin’s Travels features the complete texts from each of Michael Palin’s travel journals, as well as photos, guides and maps. His series of travel documentaries are some of my all-time favourites.
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52 fonts
52 fonts you could use instead of Helvetica. David is approaching the end of his series which highlights two typefaces from each letter of the alphabet.
The Periodic Table of Europeans
Computing and the Creative Arts
Computing and the Creative Arts is a new degree being offered by my alma mater that would’ve been right up my alley.
Generative book covers
A behind-the-scenes look at generative book covers for Faber & Faber’s print on demand series. Each cover is unique and generated on the fly using Processing, a language that I need to spend more time with.
Future media standards
The BBC‘s future media standards and guidelines includes a section detailing the grid structure used in the current version of the website.
Studio Handbook
Samuel Welo’s 1927 Studio Handbook is entirely hand lettered.
Dead Trend
Dead Trend. I’m amused, mostly because of all the emo kids I’ve been seeing around Belfast.
Handwritten Typographers
Handwritten Typographers features handwriting scans from a number of prominent typographers.
Generation Kill
Killer Elite (ii, iii) is a three part article from Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright detailing his experiences as an embedded journalist with the marine first recon group. It served as basis for the book and current HBO miniseries Generation Kill, a sort of Band of Brothers for the new generation.
Lost in Space
Lost in Space, the story of the Judica-Cordiglia brothers, radio transmissions from space and lost Russian cosmonauts.