Poster competition: The Copenhagen Harbour Festival
The Copenhagen Harbour Festival 2015 announces a poster competition. The winning proposal will be featured as a recurrent design on all marketing material during the festival.
Weingart: The Man and the Machine
Karo Grafik published a book about Professor of Typography Wolfgang Weingart. It is a collection of 77 statements, boldly illustrated with photos of Mr. Weingart, portraits of the individual students and work from his teaching. (more…)
Artist Wants To Map Every Single Human Skin Tone On Earth
Photographer Angelica Dass has matched 2,000 human faces with their corresponding Pantone hue. Find out more at Fast Company’s Co.Design blog.
It’s Nice That recommends best books of 2014
A selection of the most shelf-worthy books released this year. Posted by Emily Gosling at It’s Nice That.
9 basic principles of responsive web design
Responsive web design is a great solution to our multi-screen problem, but getting into it from the print perspective is difficult. No fixed page size, no millimetres or inches, no physical constraints to fight against. Designing in pixels for ..
Norway’s passports redesigned
Dezeen magazine published a story Norwegian travel documents given a minimal makeover. Created by Oslo-based Neue Design Studio in 2014.
New font: Joe182
Joe182 is a script face based on the authentic traces left by a thick chisel-tip marker, Joe182 was named after the atmosphere of the streets of New York City in the 1970s and 80s, where this script could be seen on almost every street corner in th..
Top 10 Font Alternatives to Helvetica
Richard Turgeon recommends 10 typefaces that can replace Helvetica. Check the complete list at the Extensis Blog.
If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. T..
100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design
The book 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and photo-graphics, posters, corporate image design, book design, journalism and typefaces over the past hundred years with illuminating essays and captivating illust..
New app for color fonts: FontLab Pad
New app FontLab Pad for OS X and Windows allows you to easily use coloured and layered fonts. And it is free!