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Can the kids play?
You grew up playing shoot-em ups. Why can’t your kids?
Swiss graphic design history
Swiss graphic design history, a large collection of posters and other ephemera from the last hundred years.
Scenes from a blog
Scenes from a blog, Pentagram goodness.
A short letterpress video
A short video about letterpress. Not a bad intro, but a tad on the melodramatic side (letterpress will die/there are no rules for computer-set typography).
Twyman Interview
An old interview with Michael Twyman, patriarch of the typography department
Too cute for words
Helvetica Alternatives
To Helvetica and Back, a number of alternatives to the ubiquitous typeface
Garamond vs Garamond
Garamond vs Garamond (english version) offers a rundown of six different versions of the legendary typeface.
Manuale Typographicum
Manuale Typographicum by Hermann Zapf, beautiful type specimens from 1954.