I stumbled upon this a few days ago. This image captures my love for great typography and curiosity! Still curious? Check out The Economist.

-Sara Alderman, Intern

Jim Datz’s design and illus­tra­tion work is just beautiful. The hand­drawn type, textures, and use of patterns are just lovely.

-Megan

laughingsquid:

The World Is Obsessed With Facebook

I have a thing for motion infographics, what can I say. Doesn’t really matter if you’re a hater or not, Zuckerberg created probably created one of the most influential websites on the interwebs today. A few stats from the video:

• As of 2011, there are 500,000,000 active facebook users (1 in every 13 people on the friggin’ planet Earth)
• 48% of Young Americans discover their news through facebook
• The 35+ demographic now represents more the 30% of the entire userbase (trust me, if my grandma is on it, then this is confirmed.)
• 750 million photos were uploaded to facebook over New Year’s weekend

-Alex

I am always on the look out for new typefaces, in addition to the 8,000+ we already have here in our font suitcase. But, you can never have too many great options available, especially this heavyweight champ titled Tabac Sans. It’s a new release from Suitcase Type, fea­tur­ing eight weights and a huge vari­ety of Open Type fea­tures. Pick it up from My Fonts right here.

-Megan

EF: Live the Language

EF (Education First) Language Schools came out with fun, enticing short films promoting the languages they’re teaching. So far I’ve seen the Spanish version, Chinese version, French version, and this English one. Check it out. Great production values as well as excellent use of handcrafted typography by Albin Holmqvist.

-Alex

robynchell:

You’re a Comic Sans Criminal… but we’re here to help you.

(courtesy of Matt Dempsey)

A fun little web slide show with standout typography & design. Really educates youngsters on the danger of comic sans use. Very dangerous habit kids.

-Alex

As a new year has fallen upon us, so have the resolutions. I usually am good about sticking to mine, at least for the first few months anyways. The To Resolve Project is the cre­ative effort of Chris Streger. He put out a call for sub­mis­sions for design­ers and illus­tra­tors to sub­mit an iphone wall­pa­per that fea­tures their New Year’s res­o­lu­tion. Below is a small sam­pling of the designs sub­mit­ted thus far, but be sure to check out the rest of the sub­mis­sions on Chris’s blog.

An Impossible Book Made Possible.

Printers said this book literally couldn’t happen. Well clearly their argument was proven invalid, read what Swiss Miss had to say about it:

Book printers said Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Unmakeable” Book “could not be made.” Belgian publishing house Die Keure proved them wrong. Jonathan Safran Foer’s book is an interactive paper-sculpture: Foer and his collaborators at Die Keure in Belgium took the pages of another book, Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles, and literally carved a brand new story out of them using a die-cut technique.

You can see more pictures of the Tree of Codes on Visual Editions’s Flickr stream. This is gasp-for-air-stunning. At least in my book.

You can view the original article over at Fast Co Design.

-Alex

The Gettysburg Address

I did not realize this but the anniversary for Abraham Lincoln’s famous “Gettysburg Address” is coming up November 19th. And as such, Adam Gault of “Adam Gault Studio” created a labor intensive, typographic animation which recites the speech word by word. Voiced by Mitch Rapoport. Very well executed. He did good.

-Alex

(Source: thedailywh.at)

matthewb:

A selection of creative commons-licensed, base CSS templates from Russ Maschmeyer to get your web typography off to a great start. I’ll be contributing here as soon as I can.

Very interesting. Allows you to dynamically preview different custom web fonts (some by powered by the ever-popular Type-Kit.)
-Alex