Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. Edited by Stephen Coles, also of Fonts In Use and The Mid-Century Modernist.
Founded in 2002 by Joshua Lurie-Terrell. Relaunched in 2009 by Coles and Chris Hamamoto.
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Fonts In Use
Type at work in the real world.
The Anatomy of Type
A book by the editor of Typographica about the finer details of typefaces.
Chromeography
Lettering on vintage cars, appliances, and other objects.
Fleurs Coiffeur Liqueur
Lettering on storefronts.
Ellen Lupton to Be Keynote Speaker at ATypI Lisbon
ATypI is proud to announce Ellen Lupton, author of Thinking with type, as the keynote speaker for the 50th ATypI conference.
Lupton is director of the MFA program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, the editor of D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006) and curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, each accompanied by a major publication, including the National Design Triennial series (2000 and 2003), Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002), Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), Mixing Messages (1996), and Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office.
Her lecture is titled ‘The Journey Back to Universalism’ and will consider the future of typography in terms of our modernist roots and our global present. She will connect typography to nomadic lifestyles, global markets, and typographic culture, and she will end her talk with a surprising proposal for how the type industry could help build a better world.
Association Typographique Internationale
ATypI 2006 : Lisbon, Portugal : 27 September – 1 October
Registration for the conference is now open.
Sketching Out of My Comfort Zone: A Type Design Experiment(10)
Sodachrome(4)
“Just My Type: A Book about Fonts”(11)
My Favorite Font Sources: A Shortlist of Trusted Foundries and Retailers(10)
Dapifer(2)
Typography and Type Design 101: Reading Lists(16)
Library Subscriptions: The Future of Fonts? Shall We Sing or Cry?(20)
Taking Your Fonts to Market: Foundry, Reseller, or Go Solo?(21)
Aften Screen(1)
Roof Kerning in Amsterdam(18)
Instant(2)
Krul(1)
Source Sans(1)
Roboto is a Four-headed Frankenfont(90)
Comenia(3)