Type design weather

Spring breaks forth in its silent three-month-long shout for joy. I go design outside.
Here's a project that's been teaching me about the Cyrillic alphabet and drawing in context of a type system. It's called Stralis.

Anatomy of the Hindi font

It suddenly stuck me one day that English typefaces are so much all over the planet that we at time neglect the (little) lesser yet beautiful ones. In fact, the beautiful scripts that these emerge from open such vast spaces for exploration. It was then decided that I’ll pick up our very own Devanagari, the mother of many Indic languages, a very few of them being Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.

In this entire exploration exercise, I made it a point to do whatever I wanted to on my own terms and conditions. I picked up Devanagari for the same and what followed was an interesting series of revelations.

Street Typography: Get A Grip

Check out a new blog post from 59amblepath:

http://59amblepath.blogspot.com/

Short typographic films

Hello! For my first post, I'd like to introduce you to the work of a group of designers I teach.

The first project this semester in Advanced Media, a course in the School of Design Innovation at Arizona State University, was to create a 30-60 second typographic film, with copyright-free audio, based on a quote received on the first day of class. The first half of the four-week project was spent collaborating with a group of 7-8 peers to make and refine typography-inspired concepts. After this process, the students chose the best of three concepts, then spent two weeks executing it as a group. A well-rounded concept was emphasized.

Search is fixed

Finally got search fixed. Accidentally introduced a glitch while we were doing the upgrade, and hadn't had the time to address until now.

I don't know this font!!

3*TYPE: The Future of Type

Ben Greenman, author and New Yorker editor, presents a revolutionary new print technology: 3*TYPE.

[Via UnBeige.]

The extinct typesetter

Typesetter is among the obsolete "jobs of yesteryear" (along with iceman, lantern lighter, etc.) in this NPR feature:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060&sc=fb&cc=fp

iPad and book design

Following up on Typophile discussion about the iPad, there is some interesting commentary on book design and the potential of the iPad here:
http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/

Brass Serif

Check out these gorgeous address numbers! Any idea what they are?

http://59amblepath.blogspot.com/2010/03/brass-serif.html