This large and versatile typeface family invigorates a two-century-old classic design and answers the question, ‘What would Justus do?’ WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monotype (Nasdaq: TYPE) today ...

Sasha Lobe of L2M3 design walks us through the challenges of designing the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum’s new visual identity. Bauhaus is many things besides an art school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 : ...

Words portray ideas, while fonts – the spirit of the times. In their book Paneuropa, Kometa, Hel (Pan-Europa, Comet, Helium), ...

Tens of millions of people around the world are blind. But more than a hundred million may have serious vision impairment. And that second figure is only bound to grow, according to the World Health ...

Fonts may live in our computers, but every outline of every letter, number, and symbol in a typeface is originally crafted by human hand. In the 1800s this happened via a copper plate engraving ...

DISTORTED WHEN MAGNIFIED, The Wall Street Journal’s Retina typeface was designed to keep ink from blurring the tiny agate type of stock tables. Given its subject, Michael Bierut’s Seventy-Nine Short ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A new Berlin exhibition shines a light on the man behind the typeface designs for brands recognized by millions of people the world over. Typographer Erik Spiekermann is the subject ...

NEW YORK — Imagine that you are a super-successful movie director, who’s been given hundreds of millions of dollars and lots of whiz-bang technology to make a cinematic epic. Sounds good? Not once you ...

Utility patents are for functional inventions. Design patents protect the look of something functional, regardless of whether the functional aspects are new. Because of this, a popular use of design ...

In another life Mark Bloom might have become a comic-strip illustrator. But in a moment of self-realisation in his teens he knew he was just not quite good enough to make a living as an artist and ...