June 2015
Resurrected type from the Thames
It’s Nice That presents Thames Capsule, a digital facsimile of the Doves Type, a typeface lost (and found) in the river Thames.
W is the first ever ‘Instazine’
magCulture introduces a small digital magazine W that can only be read by scrolling through Instagram on your smartphone. Commissioned by Ballantines Whisky.
33pt design conference in Dortmund, Germany
33pt is a celebration of typography and graphic design organized on 24th and 25th of June by FH Dortmund.
Next week: Design is Future congresstival in Barcelona
11–13 June 2015, Disseny Hub Barcelona. Design is Future is an event that explores new approaches in design from the perspective of the profession, business and society.
Hermann Zapf passed away on 4 June 2015
The great calligraphy and type design master Hermann Zapf passed away yesterday, on 4 June 2015, at the age of 96.
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A case study on art-directed responsive web typography
Smashing Magazines features an extensive article on responsive typography for web, written by Marko Dugonjić.
New Type Foundry TextPref
TextPref is launching with two typefaces, TP Rubrik and TP Farm. Launched by Miles Newlyn, a world-renowed designer. (more…)
Alan Kitching’s A–Z of Letterpress
The book showcases the extensive wood-letter fount collection of The Typography Workshop. Each page has been carefully created by Alan Kitching in collaboration with Angus Hyland, making this book a work of typographic art in its own right.
Literata, a new font for the Google Play Books
TypeTogether design team, lead by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, created a new tailored type family for the Google Play Books application.
FvF: Interview with Erik Spiekermann
A long interview with Erik Spiekermann by Abby Mae Carney was published at FvF including 53 photos. In English and German.