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What The Font?!

Cant figure out the typeface? The free What The Font?! system is now available as a free iPhone application. Simply take a photo of your mysterious typeface and BLAMO you’ve got some sort of type answer. Joy! Don’t worry the helpful utility still exists for free online here.

Posted in Course Related, PrePress, Resources, Typography, Vocation & Profession

Plantin-Moretus Museum

Ok, I’m obviously on a museum kick but I promise to go low-brow again real’ soon.

Posted in Amusement, Course Related, Design History, PrePress, Repost From Cited Source, Typography

Mattress Factory

The Mattress Factory Art Gallery has a soft spot for art that demonstrates a graphic design sensibility and awareness of information hierarchy.

Posted in Amusement, Course Related, Design History, Drawing, Typography, Visual Concepts

Typography <3

Typeworkshop.com gives you a hundred more reasons to love typography. Produced by scandanavian type designers, the site features both typeface profiles and a type basics section for those starting out.

Posted in Course Related, Resources, Typography, Vocation & Profession

Bibliophilia

If you love old, dusty, used books and their fantastic typographic and illustrative legacy, you’ve got to check out Hang Fire Books. Bask in the glow of letter pressed pages, unironic pulp illustrations and mid-century cover design.

Posted in Amusement, Course Related, Design History, Typography