The 2021 ISTD student briefs are now LIVE and available to download from the ISTD website: istd.org.uk/education/2021…

1977 Manfred Maier BASIC DESIGN PRINCPLES School of Design Basel: 4 Volume Set

Folkways Records Cover design by Ronald Clyne

Record covers for Westminster Records Design by Rudolph de Harak

A reminder for our friends in #Texas

#CoCA welcome to a lovely bunch of collaborative creative peeps

One day I'll mint my Josef Albers color theory series <3

Interesting campaign by the Wellington City Council #coca4 #brand

Ross F. George, Rush Job or no Rush Job…, ink on signboard. See the full advertisement in the Online Archive: oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lf…

Doppler, Special Effects and Topical Alphabets, Selected and Arranged by Dan X. Solo from the Solotype Typographers Catalog, Dover Publications, New York, 1978. A similar face that employs the same concept is shown in Photo-Lettering’s One Line catalog (1971) as Papirtis Dazzle.

A fabulous donation from Tobias Frere-Jones Type: 170 transit passes from Milwaukee’s trolley system, 1937–1969. Each week had a unique design. (Reposted from Stephen Coles on Instagram.)

“John Tarpey kick-started my love of all things type, circa 1997 at Limerick School of Art & Design”. John Paul Dowling, Past ISTD Education Director. Two images from John Tarpey and two from John Paul Dowling.

Klaus Burkhardt and Reinhard Döhl, Rot 40: Poem Structures In the Looking Glass, Edition Rot, Stuttgart, 1969.

Happy (belated!) birthday, Bradbury Thompson (1911–1995)! The American graphic designer and art director, best known for his work designing magazines and postage stamps, was born 110 years ago on 3/25. #LfABirthday (Images: Bradbury Thompson, Westvaco Inspirations 210, NY, 1958.)

Study for Graphic Tectonic series – Josef Albers [1941-42] | Unintentionally solving the microchip layout problem

New typographic identity and system for French micro-brewery Diagonale. Case study here: brandbrothers.fr/en/brasserie-d…

Thank you ⁦@grantrobertson1⁩ for leading the celebration of the listing of Trades Hall as a Category One building. This building is such an important part of our history and recognises the huge contribution of the union movement to Aotearoa.

This weekend’s favorite letter is the ‘a’ from Beatrice Display, by Sharp Type sharptype.co/typefaces/beat…

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