The 1960s was a time of both cultural and literal revolution, and design was by no means immune. This was a tumultous period ...

What does a world-class city need these days? Museums, skyscrapers, leafy parks, and, perhaps, a custom typeface. Only the design nerds among us (hello there!) might scrutinize a city’s typeface, but ...

Every April since 2012, a group of designers, artists, and musicians has gathered in Belgrade, Serbia, for Resonate. The conference bills itself as a “forward-looking debate on the position of ...

Lesser known, but no less important to the success of Hillary’s visual identity? Lucas Sharp, a young, Parsons-trained type designer whose eponymous font, Sharp Sans, was chosen as the official ...

When you think of the Bauhaus, you probably think of buildings, objects and famous designers. What you don’t think of is a logo or corporate identity. And for good reason. Today, the Bauhaus is an ...

This is the third in a series of posts analyzing and celebrating typefaces. These posts were originally published by HiLobrow. Sans-serif type generates a lot of passion among graphic designers. While ...

Designers Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos have created a typeface inspired by US artist Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures. Pretorius and Ramos met while studying type at Reading University. (Ramos ...

Google Docs, the ubiquitous and free word processing tool, uses a sans serif font called Arial by default. It’s classic and straightforwardly simple. Like the white bread of fonts, it’s hard working ...