Nick Martens writing on The Bygone Bureau achieves a step closer to becoming that most desirable of authority, a ‘palaeotypographist’, after browsing the Oxford English Dictionary’s archives revealed some hitherto unknown and, given the brevity of their definitions, ambiguous typographic references. Take this 1688 quote for bake: “when Letters stick together in distributing… This is […]
Most designers can barely contain their delight when using the ampersand in their work. This seemingly humble symbol (albeit now in widespread use in the inputs to SMS, emails and twitter) provides rich opportunities for visual flair given that it, more often than not, enjoys complete artistic freedom from it’s typeface family. The concept of […]
A wall of saturated orange, faded cream, solid typography and bizzaro illustrations. It can only be a collection of Penguin Science Fiction book covers.