On a much grander scale, this website is a fantastic photographic database of buildings under construction. Around the world & organised by decade.
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Milano, Stazione Centrale, 1989 • Gabriele Basilico •

Just finished an interesting chat with undergrad student in Milan researching #womenintype and got the chance to introduce her to women-in-type.com research project by Dr Alice Savoie and Prof. Fiona Ross. The reading list is great, as are the articles!

Ironically, the best place to read funny comments about the demise of Twitter is … still on Twitter.

If you’re seeking type in any of the traditional classifications, you can find something good from multiple foundries. It’s mostly a matter of picking your preferred provider and licensing terms. So, you might as well buy fonts that support living designers and ethical companies.

[breve thread su biografia e fotografie, copertine e grafica italiana, che forse continuerò, forse no, magari amplierete voi]

negli anni Cinquanta, Albe Steiner, realizza per Feltrinelli alcune copertine utilizzando sue foto alla moglie Lica Covo, partigiana, femminista, grafica

I’ve very excited to share this large digitized collection of specimen sheets from the Eduard Haenel/Wilhelm Gronau foundry in Berlin, donated by the foundry to the city’s Kunstbibliothek. More than 600 prints ranging in date from the 1830s to the 1880s. digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PP…

My talk “Type Lessons from the 19th Century” is available online! 👇

Our TypeLab talk about Fontra (work-in-progress web-based font editing tool) is back online: youtube.com/watch?v=Xhw5iC…
Thank you Gen Ramírez Cara Di Edwardo Typographics!
Cc. Black[Foundry] Jeremie Hornus

Barbara Kruger via David Zwirner: “The end of Roe is the result of the Republicans’ relentless campaign to restrict reproductive rights & control women’s bodies. Many of the Democrats have been incapable of responding forcefully, & only recently has the left begun to understand…

Instructions for my talk 👇

If you’re anywhere near The Cooper Union right now I recommend heading in to the Typographics book fair, if for no other reason than to grab one of these Lubalin Center Bell Centennial booklets Left Bank Books is selling. They’re only $50 and almost impossible to find otherwise.

Tomorrow!!

Florian Craig Eliason Klim Type Foundry He even made a chart (at the end of the article, on page 15):

Inspiring thread making an important distinction between conscious thoughtful Minimalism and minimalism as a lack of care and message:

Name your layers.