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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Typography Is

Get your own - Open publication
From Spatium magazine comes a book about what typography means for various designers. Click on book for full screen.
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Labels: Books, Typography, Visible Language

Monday, December 29, 2008

The Average Day of a Design Student.


Find out how you stack up against your peers.
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Labels: Get a Life

End Papers


Here is a nice collection of book endpapers to peruse.
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Labels: Book Design

Alphabet Soup

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Labels: Moveable Type, Visible Language, Weimareiner Font

Monday, December 15, 2008

This is Where We Live

A wonderful little video about books by the film crew 25th Estate.
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LETTEROLOGY Letǝrälǝjē | noun 1. The study of characters and symbols of an alphabet representing one or more sounds used in speech. 2. written, typed or printed communication in the form of a document, a book, or manuscript. 3. literature: the world of letters 4. printing a style of letters, text or marks on paper or other substrate. 5. ephemera containing printed text and decorations 6. the intersection of typography, books and design
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