It’s flexible layouts on this week’s Friday Focus. I’ll be loose with the definition though, since 100% fluid width layouts are so hard to come by! Designs of the Week This is just a well-put together site. From the type to the colors to the images to the layout, everything feels l...

Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType package le’s you share the tools used by Adobe font developers for wrapping up PostScript fonts as OpenType/CFF font files, and adding OpenType layout features. These tools are used for in-house development of new Adobe OpenType fonts. Use them at your o...

In November, I roped my pal Clive Thompson into joining me for one of the two AC/DC shows at Madison Square Garden. Though I wasn’t a huge AC/DC fan back when I was a guitar-playing, classic-rocking adolescent, I’ve become sort of obsessed with them in the last few years. Their rhythm se...

It may be a month late, but new ideas are never out of style. Studio Number One just issued their 2009 New Ideal Calendar with 12 months worth of fresh typography and illustration from Shepard Fairey, Zach Gibson, Kristian Henson, Philip Lumbang, Jesselisa Moretti, Cleon Peterson, Casey Ryder and Fl...

By Noura Yehia and Smashing Magazine Editorial Team Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type...

The MyFonts January 2009 newsletter reports on their Top 10 Fonts of 2008. The list highlights the year’s most successful fonts in each genre, based on sales numbers. Sitting pretty in that list (based on sales numbers, remember) is a free font family: Museo and Museo Sans, which were the year...

I just received the hard copy of Heaven Misplaced, which I reviewed on Christmas Eve. The aesthetics of the final product had to be displayed here... The front cover It's a hardback with a dust cover. I normally throw away dust covers but this one might be pretty enough for me to keep it. My copy ca...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/70_Wonderful_3D_Typography_That_Truely_Inspires'; Imagine an artwork without type - you can only make assumptions what the graphics are trying to deliver. Type enhance and ensure you get whatever message the campaign is delivering. Typography design on the other ha...

Letterpress printing porn. Via Nice Red Shorts....

Smashing Magazine has posted a list (and accompanying video) of 30 Unforgettable Movie Opening Sequences. Here are just two of my favourites: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (by Saul Bass): Dr. Strangelove (featuring lettering by Pablo Ferro: (via Motionographer) Related links: Saul Bass Kicks...