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Introducing Type Network: type for designers
Type Network is a new model for type design, development, and licensing built in response to the increasingly complex needs of type designers and type users.
Typeface overview
A quick visual overview of Lipton’s type designs from Type Network, Font Bureau, Bitstream and Adobe.
Canto poster
Rudolf Koch quote
Ari Inu Usagi
Occupant Press is excited to announce the publication of Cyrus Highsmith’s new children’s book from Japanese publisher Bunkeidou.
Type Thursday interview
Three Ways to Improve Your Italic Calligraphy
Daphne du Maurier
Book jacket calligraphy detail.
Fountain plaquette for Dutch Government Courtyard
This 90-cm-diameter slate & brass plaque was made to celebrate the donation of the fountain on the Government Courtyard in The Hague. It is currently under construction, so no real photos are available yet. The typography is made from two…
Basic math for designers
Most people function best with business as usual. Regular salary, vacation in a familiar place, television series with a predictable plot, church on Sundays, and a reserved spot in the restaurant. Change implies danger. With that attitude we’ve been able…
The 17 threats and opportunities of 2017
With the risk that you’ll read something similar over a dozen times, here is an overview of what the upcoming design year is about. Naming the issues is half of the work, so a little extra retrospection cannot hurt. The…
Design: the social context
The ways of representing information and content are increasingly dominated by the interactive technologies of digital media. Today design professionals must navigate the constantly changing world of digital technology in order to give consumers a positive aesthetic experience. This interview…
Words
We use them for everything we make, including the text of this lecture. Yet, we know so little about them. Words. Where does meaning come from? Or betekenis? Or the eppnophonics of a story? Why is writing so hard and…
ATypI 2013 keynote: what we need…
Welcome in Amsterdam, welcome to ATypI 2013. I’d like to invite you on a small virtual journey in the world of type and typography. We’ll explore areas that are common to you all. And we also will visit some places…