Typography News
Fontsmith Launches The Library Book
Fontsmith has released 'The Library Book,' a definitive guide to the foundry's library of over 500 fonts, detailing each character set and bringing each font's personality to life.
Morisawa Type Design Competition 2019
Submissions are now open for the 2019 Morisawa Type Design Competition. The competition is open to any individual, group or nationality.
WE DISSENT... Design of the Women's Movement in New York
"WE DISSENT... Design of the Women's Movement in New York," on view at the Cooper Union from October 2, looks at more than 150 years of feminist artifacts and printed matter from a variety of feminist and radical artists and collectives such as the Heterodoxy Club, Redstockings, the Guerrilla Girls, and more. The exhibition features more than 200 artifacts by women artists rarely seen and shown in order to reconsider the contributions of women to social unity and justice.
Winners of Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2018 Announced
Red Dot has announced the winners of its 2018 Communication Design Award. This year, designers, agencies and companies from 45 countries entered the competition and handed in a total of 8,610 works.
Adobe Adds 600+ Monotype Fonts to Typekit
Adobe has added 665 fonts from Monotype to its Typekit library. Many of the Monotype fonts now available for sync were originally designed in the early 20th century and have been updated and refined over the years to bring them from their original use cases such as the letterpress, hot-metal typesetting and phototypesetting to the digital era.
Type Directors Club Launches Typegeist
The Type Directors Club has launched Typegeist, a new editorial platform that illuminates various aspects of the current moment in international type design and typography through original essays by curious designers, historians, academics, experts, and aficionados.
Ragged Edge Creates Identity for Assembly, The Hotel That Doesn't Want You to Stay
Ragged Edge has created the identity for Assembly, a new hotel brand from Criterion Capital.
Designers Raising Awareness for Invisible Disabilities by Reimagining International Symbol of Access
Visability 93 has released an icon font to inspire the design community to invent a universal symbol that represents all people with disabilities, visible or invisible - not just wheelchair users.
Prototypo Launches Unique
Prototypo has launched Unique, a web application allowing users to get custom fonts in a few simple steps.
COLLINS Partners with Ogilvy to Redefine the Company's Brand Experience
Last month, Ogilvy announced its rebranding, complete with new visual identity, logo, and organizational design.
Monotype Restores Classic Walbaum Typeface
Monotype has released its latest typeface restoration project from the Monotype Studio: Walbaum. The modernized typeface features a serif design that can be used across a wide range of applications, from small caption text to massive display headlines, making it an ideal fit for publishing, advertising and brandings, in both digital and print.
Adobe Revives Fonts from Legendary Bauhaus Design Masters
Adobe has launched 'The Hidden Treasures - Bauhaus Dessau,' a campaign that will bring to life nearly century old original typography sketches and unpublished letter fragments from legendary Bauhaus design masters that were rediscovered and completed to inspire the next generation of creatives.
Type Directors Club Awards Medal to UK Typographer Fiona Ross
The Type Directors Club has presented the TDC Medal to UK typographer Dr. Fiona Ross, who has been responsible for some of the world's most influential typefaces for over five decades.
Frida Medrano Named Winner of 2018 Catalyst Award
The Society of Typographic Aficionados has announced Frida Medrano of Nuevo León, México as the recipient of the 2018 SOTA Catalyst Award.
Ascenders 2018: Call for Entries
As part of its goal to support young designers and excellence in typography, the Type Directors Club is inaugurating Ascenders 2018, a portfolio-based competition to recognize outstanding type-oriented work of designers who are 35 years of age and under.
COLLINS Releases Kernit Typeface
COLLINS has released Kernit, a free typeface inspired by the work and characters created by the late Jim Henson.
Goodwin & Goodwin: Signs with Soul
'Signs With Soul' is a short documentary film capturing the creative spirit of Goodwin & Goodwin, a creative sign company in North London.
Yearbook of Type III
The Yearbook of Type presents an independent selection of new digital typefaces created all over the world-from larger publishers to smaller, independent typographers and foundries.
2018 SOTA Catalyst Award: Call for Entries
Entries are now open for the ninth annual SOTA Catalyst Award. The award is targeted at young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography.
TypeCon2018: Call for Programming
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is now accepting programming proposals for presentations, panel discussions, full- and half-day workshops, tours, exhibits, and other special events for TypeCon2018.
Monotype Releases Madera & Unitext
Monotype has today released two new sans serif typefaces, Unitext and Madera, designed specifically for the varied use cases and touchpoints of brands.
Ampersand 2018
The 2018 Ampersand conference will be held June 29 at the Duke of York's Picturehouse, Brighton, UK.
TYPO Labs 2018
The third annual TYPO Labs conference will be held April 12-14 in Berlin. Under the theme of 'How far can we go?,' the conference will bring together 300 international developers to discuss new technologies for rendering text across the digital spectrum, including online, on mobile screens, and in virtual spaces.
Joseph Binder Award 2018
The Joseph Binder Award, an international competition with a focus on graphic design and illustration, is now open for submissions. The Award is named after one of the most outstanding graphic designers and illustrators active in Austria between the two World Wars, who subsequently also revolutionized visual communication in the United States.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2018
The 2018 Red Dot Award: Communication Design will open for entries on March 5. Agencies, designers and companies from around the world are invited to submit their design and creative projects to this international design competition.
Type Directors Club to Host 'Type Drives Culture' Conference in New York
To explore the intersection of type and culture in America today, Type Directors Club has invited design leaders to discuss type's role in music, fashion, politics, publishing, mass media, and corporate brands and how changing cultural trends present new challenges for designers.
Monotype Mosaic: Cloud-Based Font Platform for Enterprises
Monotype has today launched Mosaic, a cloud-based font platform that provides enterprises with an easy way to discover, manage, share and deploy Monotype fonts.
TypeCon2018: Portland
The Society of Typographic Aficionados has announced that TypeCon is returning to Portland, Oregon for the 20th anniversary edition of the conference - August 1st to 5th, 2018.
See/Hear: Type Directors Club Presents Swissted Poster Exhibition
Type Directors Club is hosting "See/Hear", a collection of all-type posters from New York City designer Mike Joyce's Swissted project, which merges his obsessions with punk rock and modern Swiss type. The exhibition is currently on display at Type Directors Club through February 2, 2018.
Type Directors Club Hosting Letterpress Heaven Workshop at Church of Type
Type Directors Club has just announced its first of event of the 2017-2018 season for type enthusiasts in California - an all-day letterpress workshop with prolific printmaker Kevin Bradley at the Church of Type in Santa Monica.
