A sudden bolt of inspiration would makes for an enticing story of a typeface’s beginnings, one that would perhaps be
Novel Constructions
What’s new for designers, May 2012
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.
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What’s new for designers, May 2012
Pop-up Alphabet in Univers 65 Bold
The results of an assignment at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design in Pittsburgh. Pop-up Alphabet in Univers 65 Bold from CMU Design on Vimeo.
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Pop-up Alphabet in Univers 65 Bold
A Future Without Typography?
From a two-part audio interview by @CultureFilePod with Oded Ezer (@OdedEzer) on the future of…
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A Future Without Typography?
Offscreen
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Kai Brach is a 30 year-old web designer, working on user interfaces and websites for more than 10 years. Mid-2011 he started Offscreen , a quarterly print publication about the people behind websites, apps, and digital products. What prompted you to make Offscreen?
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Offscreen
A Pocket Cathedral
There are two different interpretations of the concept of the private press. There is an approach that takes the term in a very wide sense.
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A Pocket Cathedral
Interview with Type Designer Sebastian Nagel
Sebastian Nagel (*1981) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg in Austria and is currently working as graphic and type designer.
Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 30 – May 6, 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 Apr 30 – May 6, 2012
Type Matters
A review by James Puckett Jim Williams is a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University, where he compiled an excellent series of student handouts about typography.
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Type Matters
A Self-Enumerating Pangram
This Pangram contains four a’s, one b, two c’s, one d, thirty e’s, six f’s, five g’s, seven h’s,…
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A Self-Enumerating Pangram