Children’s books have nestled in my heart for years, as I fondly remember certain titles or times spent perusing book fairs full of dust and memories. These days I have the perfect excuse to finally start a collection: an eighteen-month-old... View this Entry

In 1982 the Center for Design and Typography at The Cooper Union (which I believe was the precursor to the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography that was established in 1985) published its first Type & Technology Monograph... View this Entry

I posted this on Quipsologies last night, but I thought it warranted opening it up to the knowledgeable crowd here on Speak Up and see how all of you fare. Empire magazine has put up a rather difficult quiz that... View this Entry

A rare, one-sentence "look at this" link on Speak Up: College Humor Original Videos presents a great short on typography, with special appearances by Futura, Courier, Times New Roman, Comic Sans and, the typeface in question, Zapf Dingbats. Hilarious. Thanks... View this Entry

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending TypeCon in Buffalo. While the festivities, lectures and workshops had been going strong since last Monday, I only made it to two full days of lectures. As usual, TypeCon presents a... View this Entry

Hatred for Comic Sans has come to be a design cliché, everyone hates it, even if they are not sure what makes it such an infuriating typeface. While its design is less eminent than that of, say Gotham or Bembo... View this Entry

During 2007 the feed subscriptions in my trusty RSS reader grew from a modest dozen to six or seven dozen, allowing me to keep tabs on an increasingly addictive number of blogs throughout the world: Design You Trust™ in Russia,... View this Entry

Over the years I have learned to master a few typefaces, knowing at what size, with which letterspacing and with how much leading they will look its best. Some are inherently easy to use: Gotham looks great in uppercase, generously... View this Entry

The last week of January was unusually typographically themed for me. Various and somewhat disparate events, situations and miscellaneous moments made me very aware of typography. At the end of the week I just knew I had to write about... View this Entry

During a typical weekend mix of productive procrastination and procrastination save the qualifier, I indulged in my regular sources of visual satisfaction. I’m sure you know it. It’s the indulgent eye candy fix that satiates what desires arise during a... View this Entry