New blog

Hello!
From now on, typeforyou blog will be at www.typeforyou.org.
See you there! ;)

Poll results

What should we change on typeforyou? Here are the results of the poll:

The design layout... (40%)
Interview someboy. (31%)
Font reviews would be nice. (25%)
Change to wordpress please! (18%)
Don´t bother (15%)

Thanks for your input. The results pretty much reflect what I thought also. If you have any more suggestions please send an email.
A new typeforyou.org is being made, to be launched next week (yes, in wordpress).
Stay tuned...

Thinking for a living

The Thinking for a Living series is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.
Lots of resources...Check out the typography section.

Burokrata - a new member

Just to let you know that Pedro Ribeiro, (aka Burokrata) is the new contributor of Type for you. Please give him a warm welcome! ;)

New header by Daily Type

Yury Ostromentsky from Daily Type has made some nice experiments with "Type for you", and so now we have a new header for the blog.
Thanks Yuri :)

Double Page - A LiveJournal Community

Very worthy browsing material at LiveJournal community Douple Page, with lots of links to a variety of magazines.

Source: Maquetadores.

The Typecube

From Fontblog I found Manuel Kiem and his fantastic project: the Typecube. It´s a relatively simple but very strong ideia, based on combination of forms. I specially like the way the letters get represented, like if the Y is saying: "I need to have this form, you know, for my brother E to be OK too..." Isn´t this a very essential part in typography?

Design Feed - All in One?

Type for you is now a proud member of Design-Feed, a feed-aggregator site, containing news from several sites covering graphic and web design, as well as art or advertising. And every post is searchable by keyword.
Very good service to the community. :)

History of Typography Is Celebrated in Pentagram-Designed 2007 Classic Calendar

The new 2007 Calendar edition by pentagram, designed by Kit Hinrichs.

An extraordinary history of typeface development, reflecting prevailing limitations or technological advances, lies behind apparently ordinary letters or numbers found on familiar objects. Very few of us are aware of the rich cultural history behind what we read. The 2007 Pentagram Classic Typographic Calendar, designed by Kit Hinrichs, partner of the legendary international multi-disciplinary design consultancy Pentagram, captures the essence of typeface development.

Each calendar month is distinguished by a unique typeface selected by Hinrichs, which is accompanied by a short synopsis of its genesis. His selections include popular and obscure typefaces, whose origins span contemporary (created digitally) to 15th century roots (created using hand-drawn characters) by some of the industry’s acclaimed typographers, as well as those lesser-known. All characters and digits appearing in the calendar have been redrawn digitally.

For instance, “Whitney” (July), designed by Tobias Frere-Jones for the Whitney Museum in New York, was created for the institution in a multitude of applications. The result is a typeface, which successfully tackles the often-conflicting demands across multiple forms of media, from catalogs, directory listings to signage.

Read More...

Also, check out the Pentagram Blog, to keep updated on their fantastic work.

Arial or Helvetica

Once there was a typeface called Helvetica.
It was extremely popular.
Later came a software company called Microsoft.
They “borrowed” Helvetica for their operating system and called it Arial.
This inferior typeface is now on millions of desktops all over the world.
Can you tell the difference between the original and the rip-off
in these ten examples?

Take the Quiz.
(If a little unsecure, read this great article first by Mark Simonson.)

Or, play the Game.

Or, follow the discussion over at Noisy Decent Graphics.

Die 100 besten schriften

FontShop presents the results for the 100 Best Fonts, who brought together several top designers and typographers to determine the greatest fonts ever. Either you like it or not, Helvetica is number one.
You can download the PDF here.

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.

Towards a non linear typography?

EXP - a non profit research team, has a very interesting blog.
They discuss in this article the Aztec writing system:
When we think to writing and printing as visual forms, we always accept the linguistic and alphabetical model of linearity as the basis for organizing syntactically coherent and effective messages. However, this is perhaps the relic of a misconception about what a graphic notation really is – and what can do –, grounded on the idea of a parallel between verbal syntax (which is necessarily unilinear since it follows the flow of time, although no performed speech act is literally linear nor monodimensional) and visual entaxis (which is the distribution in a synoptic space of inscription of features, characters and groups of notational units as tokens, assumed as identical with syntax while in no way has to coincide with it).
Continue reading...

They were at Lisbon’s ATypI (pics here) and will be talking at the "Trianalle de Milano", starting January 20 until April 25.

Gary Hustwit has a blog

Helvetica film director Gary Hustwit now has a blog!
Also check out the updates at the site. David Carson and Paula Scher will be in the film, representing the "anti-helvetica" side. Interesting! :)

In the picture: Rhoda the dog.

Jules Vernacular

If you feel like browsing a very nice gallery of pics, here´s the link for you.

SpiekerBlog

Spiekerman just launched the version 2.0 of his blog. Very clean and simple, as it should be :)

Note: Spiekermann will be in Portugal in April, 13, for a conference at ESAD (Matosinhos) - Personal Views. (As well as many others, like Neville Brody and Experimental Jetset. Take a look at the calendar.

Letritas

Great Blog on type creation. In Spanish.