The Oscars of Type
by Ellen Lupton
Assaulted with ceaseless buzz about the Academy Awards, I can’t help wishing that a well-wrought typeface could attract as much attention as a ninety-minute film. Various type blogs and font foundries released their own best-of lists at the end of 2009. I sifted through them and cast my own votes....
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Before Design Thinking
by Ellen Lupton
First published in 1972, The Universal Traveler is a mad masterpiece of D.I.Y. hippie culture that deserves its place in history next to the Last Whole Earth Catalog. This quirky guide to the design process was created long before “design thinking” became a buzzword among business-oriented designers....
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Typography on the Web: Questions for Jeffrey Zeldman—Part 1
by Ellen Lupton
Remember when the only typefaces you could use on a website were Georgia, Verdana, Helvetica, and a few others? We are now on the verge of a new age of typographic diversity. Jeffrey Zeldman, one the most outspoken and influential people in the web design community, agreed to answer some questions about the state of typography on the web....
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Typography in the 1990s
by Ellen Lupton
How quickly “now” becomes “then.” A few weeks ago, I was looking for examples of experimental typography to show to my MFA students at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). I pulled a book off the shelf called Typography Now Two: Implosion, edited by Rick Poynor in 1996....
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Type Hunger
by Ellen Lupton
I've been noticing that many of the images that get tagged or labeled "type" on design-watch web sites such as welovetypography.com and sharesomecandy.com are actually some form of lettering....
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