FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif, following the discovery of drawing of that typeface by Max Miedinger. The sketches which were discovered by Miedinger’s granddaughter have been redrawn to create the digital version shown above.
The font has been released today, April 1st.
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Some nice typography from Mike Lemanski. He has a really warm non-digital feel which im really digging.

Still rocking the same black turtleneck in 93

“I will solve your problem for you, and you will pay me. You dont have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people….I’ll solve the poblem the best way I know how.”

Paul Rand

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Nice type work from fontan2

Wouters from Letman and his nephew with some slick lettering.
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Parra selected his favorite lyric from the Stones Throw catalog which is Charizma & PB Wolf “My World Premiere”… The first 12″ on Stones Throw & features 10 words for 10 years

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Buy the original shirt from The Giant Peach

Some really dope hand drawn typography and illustration by Fiodor Sumkin at Opera78
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The Type Directors Club has announced the winners for 2008.

Any one interested in the making of a full functioning font with 4280 glyphs should have a look at this.
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Originally from Parachute Fonts

Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
Interviews within include conversations with pan-European […]

Dope work from Santos&Karlovich, a small Brooklyn based studio.
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More at motorcitynix Flickr
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I have been listening to allot of Mf Doom recently and was inspired. This is a new type design I just finished. The lyrics are from the Madvillain song Figaro.
Read more for description and finished design

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Originally From: Onitsuka Tiger

I dusted off some old blackbooks a few days ago, most from 2004-05.