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Ping Pong by Krispin Heé and Simone Farner I’m not a fan of the trendy Swiss anti-design found on the rest of the Heé site, but this piece is great. Thanks Chris.

Ping Pong by Krispin Heé and Simone Farner
I’m not a fan of the trendy Swiss anti-design found on the rest of the Heé site, but this piece is great.

Thanks Chris.

Thanks to my smart and talented friends for participating in Typographica’s “Favorite Typefaces of 2011”.

Thanks to my smart and talented friends for participating in Typographica’s “Favorite Typefaces of 2011”.

always mind your target audience (by Nina Stoessinger) As an aside, these Euro forbidden signs always confuse me. In North America anything not allowed has a slash through it or is written out with a “NO”. To me, this reads “dogs ok”.

always mind your target audience (by Nina Stoessinger)

As an aside, these Euro forbidden signs always confuse me. In North America anything not allowed has a slash through it or is written out with a “NO”. To me, this reads “dogs ok”.

Another sports team logo improved by Claes Källarsson:

I had so much fun making those Winnipeg Jets logos a while back that I thought I’d have a bit more fun and re-design another sports logo. I chose the New Orleans Saints because their logo is pretty much the saddest-looking fleur-de-lis I’ve ever seen and it’s such a shame since it’s otherwise a very beautiful symbol. I based my own fleur-de-lis on the style of the ones that appears on the flag of New Orleans, to tie things together.

wordsandeggs: Letraset brochure, via Linzie Hunter. Most type is sold to designers. Letraset fonts were a rare exception, marketed to everyone for everyday use.

wordsandeggs:

Letraset brochure, via Linzie Hunter.

Most type is sold to designers. Letraset fonts were a rare exception, marketed to everyone for everyday use.

Microsoft’s Metro UI owns the square. Apple has a corner on the roundrect, from the Springboard launcher to the iPhone hardware itself. Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI, found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully. Palm has used the circle from the early days of PalmOS, and in WebOS, HP continues the tradition with care (one might even note that both Palm and HP structure their wordmarks around the circle). — Interuserface | Own a shape If you showed me this graphic five years ago I’d have guessed Apple would take the square, not the roundrect.

Microsoft’s Metro UI owns the square. Apple has a corner on the roundrect, from the Springboard launcher to the iPhone hardware itself. Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI, found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully. Palm has used the circle from the early days of PalmOS, and in WebOS, HP continues the tradition with care (one might even note that both Palm and HP structure their wordmarks around the circle). — Interuserface | Own a shape
If you showed me this graphic five years ago I’d have guessed Apple would take the square, not the roundrect.

Junghans Chronoscope by Max Bill (via Prof. Michael Stoll)

Junghans Chronoscope by Max Bill
(via Prof. Michael Stoll)

Sean K McGinnis

Sean K McGinnis

neography: World’s happiest & unhappiest contries Another infographic (like this one) that looks pretty but fails to communicate. The map is ok, but those rings — it shouldn’t be a chore to link the countries to their data. And it’s a shame, because the data is really fascinating.

neography:

World’s happiest & unhappiest contries

Another infographic (like this one) that looks pretty but fails to communicate. The map is ok, but those rings — it shouldn’t be a chore to link the countries to their data. And it’s a shame, because the data is really fascinating.

“All Shall Be Well” – 50 Books/50 Covers This is a great cover but I wish it was hand lettered. There’s no reason to use a font here.

“All Shall Be Well” – 50 Books/50 Covers

This is a great cover but I wish it was hand lettered. There’s no reason to use a font here.

“ Why should Vitra produce and market a new chair by the Bouroullecs when they already have the Eames’ classics in their collection? Because customers have different applications, taste, budgets and bottoms.
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The brilliant Indra Kupferschmid on why we need new typefaces.
1967 Contrary Imaginations - Liam Hudson (via things magazine)

1967 Contrary Imaginations - Liam Hudson (via things magazine)