Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
AUGUST 14, 2008
At the heart of the game of cat-and-mouse played by bloggers and spammers is Captcha , purveyor of those staticky demands to enter the code exactly as shown above. Captcha is premised on the idea that brains are still better than machines at reading text, and that by forcing visitors to decipher a distorted piece of typography, the system can successfully distinguish between humans and robots.
Illustration Art
AUGUST 23, 2008
I love this picture from an old reference book about birds. The anonymous artist could have presented the same basic information a thousand different ways, but he chose to emphasize the design. When you look at the shape, the colors, the negative space, you know right away: this was an artist who understood the language of forms. In previous posts about the enduring importance of design , I have shown pictures from the Museum of Modern Art or recent graphic novels that are not as concerned with
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
AUGUST 18, 2008
In the year and change since we released the Gotham Rounded family, I’ve noticed an unusual paradox at play. Some designers choose the fonts because of their high-tech associations, and can coax out of them an “engineered” quality that evokes the engraved markings on keyboards and camera lenses (both prime ingredients in Gotham Rounded’s design.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
AUGUST 6, 2008
A beautiful installation by Janno Hahn , for Rene Knip. —JH.
Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People
Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
AUGUST 1, 2008
Jason Kottke turned me on to this fantastic data visualization by Zach Beane, showing this year’s box office gross for American movies. Like this related graphic at The New York Times , it uses the x -axis for time and the height of each node to indicate revenue, but presents the data in a way that allows readers to infer four additional kinds of information — without having to complicate the graphic: The position on the y -axis represents each film’s rank, revealing the import
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
AUGUST 7, 2008
My weapon of choice is a Pilot Precise rollerball, but I keep a General’s Sketching Pencil below my monitor. I don’t write with it: it’s not sharpened; it’s there because I admire its typography, which in less than four inches goes from italic small capitals to a cheery script, to a pair of unrelated sans serifs in two different sizes.
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