Our favorite tweets of the week Feb 6-Feb 12, 2012

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter , however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out

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Our favorite tweets of the week Feb 6-Feb 12, 2012

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Michael Chabon E-Books for Open Road Media

The graphic artifacts of the Art Deco era, from WPA posters to the ephemera of 1939 World’s Fair, have long been a source of personal inspiration. Despite countless riffs and rip-offs by designers over the years, the results still grab my attention when this visual vocabulary is deployed in a stylish and appropriate way

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Michael Chabon E-Books for Open Road Media

The Joy of Books

A year ago, Sean Ohlenkamp and his wife created a stop motion video of them organizing their bookshelf. This year, they’ve stepped it up a notch, and organized an entire book store – Type Books in Toronto.

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The Joy of Books

Text on the pages of iBooks

Two intelligent blog posts appeared today covering the new iBooks software and its choice of fonts; both of them included a link to my 2001 review of one of the new type choices: Iowan Old Style . I’m pleased to see John Downer’s Iowan Old Style get its due at last; I’m even more pleased to see iBooks expand its typographic palette in the direction of actual text typefaces. (Now about actual typography …) Glenn Fleishman’s essay for Boing Boing is insightful and mindful of the cyclical development of typographic technology; he also mentions the current problems with trying to incorporate web fonts in e-books.

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Text on the pages of iBooks

8 Faces issue #4

Norwegian Bible, 2011 Editions

The Standard edition of the 2011 Norwegian Bible.

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Norwegian Bible, 2011 Editions

Aria

Aria I truly fell in love at first sight with the lowercase ‘a’ of Aria, capricious and full of happiness, and later with every letter of the roman weight.

Rethinking CSS Grids

Mark Boulton pulled together some of his thoughts and concerns regarding CSS grids and how they could be created.

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Rethinking CSS Grids

ATypI 2011 Reykjavík

By Dan Reynolds Founded in 1957, the Association Typographique Internationale ( ATypI ) is a worldwide organization dedicated to type design and typographic-related themes. Reykjavík/Iceland hosted this year’s annual ATypI conference. From 14–18 September, about 250 local and international guests gathered to hear presentations on writing systems, design history, and font production.

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ATypI 2011 Reykjavík

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