Letters of Interest

LOI_004A Typeface for Every City

Dutch designer Jarrik Muller is on a mission to design a typeface for every city. I wonder what he’ll create when gets to Albuquerque?

Via Fast Company Design

 


 

Swim with the Dolphins

Who wouldn’t want a typeface composed of animated dolphins? Oana Clitan has developed a set of drop caps inspired by the frisky sea mammals.

Via Quipsologies

 


 

 

LOI_001Vernacular Signage

The always informative Steve Heller shares an artifact of signcrafters from days of yore – the 1934 catalog from Brilliant Signs Company.

Via Design Observer

 

 


LOI_002Papyrus – The World’s (Other) Most Hated Font

Meet the designer who created the typeface you love to hate, and learn how a young designer’s first font design wound up on over a billion computers around the world – including yours.

Via Fast Company Design