Robothon 2009

For those of you who are interested in type design and technology, LettError has posted videos from the conference on blip here.

Insights Design Lecture Series at Walker Art Center

I came across these great videos today, I haven’t had a chance to view them all, but all look very promising.

Experimental Jet Set

David Reinfurt
[dot dot dot, Dexter Sinister, O-R-G]

Process Type Foundry

Architect Handstyle?

Spring Cleaning

I had fallen behind on maintaining the NADE blog so I decided to post several links in one post. I am still playing with the idea of doing larger weekly posts with fewer daily posts, we’ll see how it works out, till then enjoy the below.

NYT’s review of Vandal Squad event at PowerHouse Arena on Thursday.

Is Print Dead? Interesting commentary on e-Books and the future of print. In addition, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer moves from a print to strictly web presence.

A step back in terms of design on the web, the Readability plugin. Thank you Underconsideration.

A great insight on how designers solve problems and organize their thoughts, Sketchbook: Conceptual Drawings From the World’s Most Influential Designers, coming out in May. Thank you Design Observer.

Science meets Design Theory at SEED Magazine.

“Typography is the core of graphic design, but is often neglected. Supplement your design education with typographic tools and inspiration from FontShop.” A great resource for students, expand your design education at FontShop.

SVA MFA in Interaction Design suggested reading list. Thank you Kottke.

31 typefaces in 31 days

An interesting project by Fwis, whose work I thoroughly enjoy.

“Type.fwis.com is a playground for typographic experiments by Fwis (and friends). We will try and post a new typeface every day for free for the month of January, 2009.”

Original Typophile post here. Type.fwis site here.

Helvetica on PBS

PBS launched a nice mini-site to coincide with the premiere of Gary Hustwit’s film Helvetica. Visit the site here. Also, take the test to see which font you are, my results listed me as being Helvetica. Take the test here.

Typographic Tour of London

A short brief film on typography in London and it’s usage by Boico.

Thank you Design Observer.

Brooklyn We Go Hard

Beautiful typographic treatment for the new Jay-Z video by Evan Roth.

Blog posting from Evan Roth here. Source code, yes source code, here.

New York City Subway Signage

A very interesting and detailed article about New York City subway signage on the AIGA site. Read the full article, all nine pages, here.

Define Graphic Design

Participate here.