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Petter Eldin, a filmmaker living in China, recently made a series of films including Neville Brody and Niels Shoe Meulman’s work for Beijing Design Week. In October 2011, Converse proposed an unconventional approach to support China’s first-ever Design Week launching in Beijing.
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Petter Eldin, a filmmaker living in China, recently made a series of films including Neville Brody and Niels Shoe Meulman’s work for Beijing Design Week. In October 2011, Converse proposed an unconventional approach to support China’s first-ever Design Week launching in Beijing.
Casa do Conto by R2
It has been around in several blogs, but I think it deserves an entry on this one. The arts & residence Casa do Conto (House of Tales) is a charming building in the emerging Cedofeita area in central Porto, Portugal.
Casa do Conto by R2
It has been around in several blogs, but I think it deserves an entry on this one. The arts & residence Casa do Conto (House of Tales) is a charming building in the emerging Cedofeita area in central Porto, Portugal.
Emil Kozak — Circulitos
Emil Kozak wrote us an email saying he just added the category Fonts to his Shop. He only has one font available at the moment: Circulitos. Some interesting patterns you can create with this one, and only 5€. Looking forward
Emil Kozak — Circulitos
Emil Kozak wrote us an email saying he just added the category Fonts to his Shop. He only has one font available at the moment: Circulitos. Some interesting patterns you can create with this one, and only 5€. Looking forward
It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it.
Time for some healthy competition time. The challenge at hand: create a typographical poster about sports, using the phrase “It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it.” Your work will be judged by an international board of designers
It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it.
Time for some healthy competition time. The challenge at hand: create a typographical poster about sports, using the phrase “It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it.” Your work will be judged by an international board of designers
Calligraphy by Luca Barcellona
Luca Barcellona is a very skilled calligrapher from Milan, where he owns his studio and teaches calligraphy with the Associazione Calligrafica Italiana. His work really embraces the talent of an ancient art, making it coexist with our digital era, in a
Calligraphy by Luca Barcellona
Luca Barcellona is a very skilled calligrapher from Milan, where he owns his studio and teaches calligraphy with the Associazione Calligrafica Italiana. His work really embraces the talent of an ancient art, making it coexist with our digital era, in a
FontBook – The Bible
I think I need an iPad. FontBook, now in version 2.0, is the world’s most comprehensive typographic reference tool, containing 110 type foundries and featuring over 620,000 typeface specimens. This 7 min tour explains the main features of FontBook. Description
FontBook – The Bible
I think I need an iPad. FontBook, now in version 2.0, is the world’s most comprehensive typographic reference tool, containing 110 type foundries and featuring over 620,000 typeface specimens. This 7 min tour explains the main features of FontBook. Description
Letterpress & Offset Beauty
A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk Subtitles available here: goo.gl/iuaKY A film by Danny Cooke dannycooke.co.uk Soundtrack by Tony Higgins tonyhiggins.org (Available to download here: goo.gl/exGL1)
Letterpress & Offset Beauty
A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk Subtitles available here: goo.gl/iuaKY A film by Danny Cooke dannycooke.co.uk Soundtrack by Tony Higgins tonyhiggins.org (Available to download here: goo.gl/exGL1)
Blackpool Comedy Carpet
Created by artist Gordon Young, and designed in collaboration with Why Not Associates, the Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on an extraordinary scale. Referring to the work of more than 1,000 comedians and comedy writers, the carpet gives
Blackpool Comedy Carpet
Created by artist Gordon Young, and designed in collaboration with Why Not Associates, the Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on an extraordinary scale. Referring to the work of more than 1,000 comedians and comedy writers, the carpet gives
Typographica favorite typefaces of 2011
Roughly 2 years later, Typographica updates with their favorite fonts of 2011, with an excelent selection as usual. I have to mention the fact that two portuguese designers are among the chosen ones. Congratulations to Rui Abreu (with Aria) and
Typographica favorite typefaces of 2011
Roughly 2 years later, Typographica updates with their favorite fonts of 2011, with an excelent selection as usual. I have to mention the fact that two portuguese designers are among the chosen ones. Congratulations to Rui Abreu (with Aria) and
Type]Media 2011
Amazing work from twelve graduates from Type]Media2011, with a nice website to go along. Ramiro Espinosa made a Flickr set with all the posters of the final exhibition.
Type]Media 2011
Amazing work from twelve graduates from Type]Media2011, with a nice website to go along. Ramiro Espinosa made a Flickr set with all the posters of the final exhibition.

I don’t know German; therefore, I fail to understand the criteria to choose these type faces. Why wasn’t Courier among them?
Actually, I didn’t find any monospace font among these hundred faces. I didn’t check them all, neither am I an expert on the matter.
I strange the lack of Courier because of its impact on society. For many years, I’ve been used to see Courier face on official documents, in Portugal. I even got a CESAR layout typewriter in middle nineties, as my folks were too poor to offer me a computer, and it typed in Courier face.
Now that I’m a computation student (oh, the irony), I look very carefully at monospaced fonts and their basic properties, such as proportion, and readability.
I’d like to learn more about typefaces. Pedro Serrão, would you, please, add more detail on this article?
No wonder Helvetica has won. It’s modern, slick, detailed¹, and readable. It’s a powerful font.
¹ – by comparison with Arial, its inferior imitation.
I haven’t looked at the list very carefully, but Letter Gothic (which has a monospaced version) is in it. So at least one monospaced font crept in.
@ hugo: I am proud to answer your question. For our ranking we excluded typefaces that are distributet with OS and printers like Arial, Verdana, Georgia and also Courier.
Monospaced: You will find Letter Gothic in our list and also the crazy FF Trixie typewriter font. Some other Families include very nice monospaced variants like FF Fago, FF Quadraat and Fedra.