You Work For Them zine. The first issue, images created using samples from their stock collection.
Category: links
50 Ways to Help the Planet
50 Ways to Help the Planet, small changes you can make to your routine that will reap dividends for the environment.
Thirty years of Granta covers
Font Game
The Rather Difficult Font Game. I only scored 30/34, I blame the wee morning hours. At least my education has proven useful for something.
Electrocuting an Elephant
Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison in 1903. He also happened to document the moment on film, which he obviously titled Electrocuting an Elephant.
FontStruct
FontStruct is a simple font creator from FontShop
Age of the Right Brain
San Seriffe
San Seriffe, typographic humour from The Guardian. I’d love to see the full spread at a higher resolution.
Briar Press
Briar Press, a letterpress community. “Proudly introducing the bleeding-edge world of personalized desktop publishing circa 1820.”
More whining about internet piracy
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing. This article just made me laugh. It almost makes me want to go out and pirate their books, just so they’ll cease writing and stop polluting the world with stupid ideas.
It’s all about the character widths
Forensic typography or how Jonathan Hoefler stopped the next hip-hop war.
The National
The National is an awesome band, they recently reached the top of my last.fm charts. Kudos to Mr. Hicks for turning me on to them.