A photoset of the the Die Neue Haas Grotesk specimen book (the typeface better known as Helvetica).
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Beautiful Accidents
Dan Cederholm on beautiful accidents. They’re those mistakes which end up making things better, and that you wish were easier to induce.
A six month exposure
A six month exposure of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, was taken by Justin Quinnell, using a pinhole camera strapped to a telephone pole. The photograph resembles a painting, and shows the arc of the sun from winter solstice to summer. Prints are available, as well as those from a few other long exposures.
On diacritics
On diacritics, an article from classmate David Březina, explores the fundamentals behind the use and design of Latin diacritical marks.
National Film Board releases archives
The National Film Board of Canada has put their film archive online. The movies are all encoded in Flash and can be embedded, no direct downloads unfortunately.
25th Estate
This is Where We Live — welcome to our city, to our world, of books. A charming video from the folks at 4th Estate Publishing.
5 Rules of Book Cover Design
The Vignelli Canon
The Vignelli Canon, a free pdf from Massimo Vignelli.
The Complex Grid
The Complex Grid, tips for designing a grid system in InDesign. There’s a lot of math that goes into developing a solid layout system.
Eric Gill’s unreleased typeface
Eric Gill’s unreleased typeface. Dan went digging around the Monotype archives and found some engineering drawings and a trial print.