Hand Job - A catalog of type

Book by Mike Perry.
Check out the typography section on his site. Very nice work.

Typography book

A book by Zeixs, covering the topics Letterdesign, Corporate Identity, Corporate Design, New Fonts and Experimental Typography, featuring more than 600 works from a wide range of international typedesigners, ilustrators and calligraphers.

125 x 125 mm, 700 Seiten / pages, ca. 600 Abbildungen / approx. 600 Images.
gepolstertes Hardcover / wadded Hardcover
Deutsch / English / Francais / Espagnol / Italiano

The Art of the Grid

Nice idea:

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Whether we admit it or not, grids are an essential part of our life. Without grids, our lives would be messier, uglier, and more confusing places to live in. The Art of the Grid products will keep your life in order! Write your shopping lists, practice your layouts, and keep your books and magazines on the shelves of grids that changed the history of design.

Source: Ace Jet 170

Rodrigo Sanchez Interview

Read this nice interview at SpeakUp with the Art Director of METROPOLI, Rodrigo Sanchez, that recently won a Type Directors Club award.

Rodrigo joined El Mundo in 1992, where he is the Art Director of three of the newspaper’s supplements along with other tasks required by the large publishing group. Since graduating from Universidad Computense de Madrid, Rodrigo has been working in the editorial field: The finance magazine Mercado, was the first job that offered him design control; he then joined El Sol in 1990 where he met legendary editorial designers Roger Black and Eduardo Danilo (of Danilo Black) whom he credits for opening his mind (and doors) to editorial design of the highest quality. For the last 15 years Rodrigo has been producing covers for Metrópoli that defy normal design routines and display a wonderful range of visual executions that range from the expected to the short-of-breath-magnificent.

Here's a gallery of 50 front covers of Metropoli, to open your appetite.

Adrian Shaughnessy speaks at ESAD

Adrian Shaughnessy (This is Real Art) will be the next speaker, at the series Personal Views by ESAD school, in Matosinhos, Portugal, 23 February 2007. The entrance is free for everybody.
Adrian Shaugnessy wrote the very well known How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul. Here´s a nice review of the book at Eye Magazine.

Read the interview at Speakup.

The picture above is from the Andre, very worth checking out set of images at flickr!

Werkplaats Typografie

Karel Martens, Paul Elliman and Armand Mevis.
Found via SSerrato:

The WT programme stimulates and practices critical reflection on the basis of a broad cultural perspective, with theory playing a supporting role.
Participants engage in artistic research involving content and form, text and image, theory and practice, in relation to professional practice and supervised by leading designers. Alongside more theoretical research, participants work on real assignments for external clients.
With these assignments participants learn to take on a leading role in the process of designing and realizing a final product.
The WT programme roughly consists of three components:
1) Presentations, individual and group critiques, workshops;
2) Practical assignments and
3) theoretical orientation in the form of research, excursions and a final thesis.

Assignments can be initiated by the WT, external clients, or by the participants themselves.

Judge a book...

A nice blog with Paul's favorites book covers. Almost all these books he has bought in second hand shops and he rarely payed more than a couple of pounds for each one.
Here in the picture there´s a beautifull Penguin example.

Mexican Blackletter

Mexican Blackletter is a book published by Mark Batty Publisher on the blackletter also known as Gothic miniscule.
Blackletter, known also as Gothic miniscule, originated in Europe near the end of the 12th century. Transported from Europe to the New World, blackletter was subtly reshaped by indigenous influences. No better is this illustrated than in Mexico.

UPDATE: The Mexican Blackletter Typographic Tradition explained here.

Markus Rathgeb on Otl Aicher

There is a nice interview at MetropolisMag with Markus Rathgeb, author of a monograph on Otl Aicher, graphic designer for the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Via Design Observer.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Based on the book The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst and Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller-Brockmann and also some of the major web sites on typography comes The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web.
A great resource for those who work with type on the digital medium, all this made possible by Richard Rutter.

Alchemy or "How to Make Money with Worn-out Type"

Found on my own google adsense ads:

Alchemy is the first concept book from The Heavy Duty Press. The idea presented itself moments before dumping a case ofo worn-out and dirty 14 point Spartan into the hell box. The text was completely improvised in the composing room, with the single goal of setting every last lead soldier in the case on his feet and printing a book with the entire army before turning it all in to the scrap yard for the then-current rate of 19 cents per pound. Due to the finite number of each character in the case, substitutions were made when it became necessary, which makes for a rather challenging read! Useless engravings from the collection adorn each page. Aside from the Arches cover, the paper is cream-colored card stock, also otherwise useless for fine press books, but somehow acquired over the years. Ultimately, Alchemy is about making the most out of junk, and being a member of the Clean Plate Club. I had heard it professed that while bread can indeed be baked from shit, it's probably not going to taste very good. This is that very shitty bread. How's it taste?

You can find some more pics of the inside of the book here. What do you think?

Type for independent minds

"Made with FontFont" edited by FontShop co-founder Erik Spiekermann and Dutch writer-designer Jan Middendorp, showcases the history and influence of the award-winning foundry. The book is replete with real-world examples of FontFonts in use, from high-profile ad campaigns for big automakers and fast food giants to iconic poster designs for the Tyson/Tubbs heavyweight battle in Tokyo and New York’s Shakespeare in the Park.



“Made with FontFont” includes art and articles by Strange Attractors, John D. Berry, Peter Bilak, Neville Brody, Susanna Dulkinys, Eboy, Rian Hughes, Max Kisman, Akira Kobayashi, LettError, Ellen Lupton, Ian Lynam, Martin Majoor, Albert-Jan Pool, Paula Scher, Christian Schwartz, Nick Shinn, Fred Smeijers, Studio Dumbar, and xplicit.



“Made with FontFont” is a companion to “FiFFteen”, an exhibition celebrating FontFont and FUSE. The show has been traveling internationally, with previous stops including Barcelona, Berlin, Helsinki, London, and New York. “FiFFteen” will open in Los Angeles in the spring.

Hardcover, 352 pages, color illustrations

Images taken from HD Schellnack's blog.
It looks good :) Download the PDF brochure here! (3.5MB)

Buy it.

Karel Martens - 2nd Edition

Buy this while you have the chance! :)

Karel Marten's work occupies a unique place in the present European art and design landscape. While working in the tradition of Dutch modernism, he maintains distance from the main developments of his time: from both the practices of routinized Modernism and the facile reactions against it. His work is personal and experimental, while at the same time publicly answerable. This book presents Martens graphic design oeuvre in reproductions of startling fidelity, and described in informal captions. Printed on uncoated paper and Chinese-bound, the book itself has a compelling tactile quality. For this long-awaited second edition, twenty-four pages have been added to cover Marten's most recent work.