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Delighted to share the cover for On Posthuman War was selected for @CommArts Typography Annual 13!
AD: Ana Bichanich
Editor: Douglas Armato
Editorial assistant: Zenyse Miller
Publisher: @UMinnPress
Atlas Typewriter from @carvalho_bernau (ASCII art)
Graphik from @commercialtype
ALT Cover design for the book On Posthuman War by Mike Hill. Cover artwork is a camouflage pattern in the form of ASCII art.
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14 Oct 2022
Happy publication day to these beauts (for yesterday!) by @SimonNapierBell, published by @Unbounders. Uses Druk from @commercialtype. Thanks also to Alex Eccles and @johnmitchinson for trusting me with the design and Jo Carlill for the Picture Research.
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6 Oct 2022
Congratulations to @plain_form on opening today!
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There's a lot to love here but Ready is especially great.
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Commercial Type retweeted
3 Oct 2022
A new specimen is out. What is your favorite article and what are your favorite type combinaisons?
23 Sep 2022
NEW: The Food Issue, a type specimen for immersive reading. Edited by @litherland, designed by Nikhil Misra, built by Daniel Gamage
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Commercial Type retweeted
26 Sep 2022
Incisive food writing as beautiful type specimen be still my heart. foodissue.commercialtype.com…
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Commercial Type retweeted
23 Sep 2022
Really excited to have contributed all of the illustrations for this one! And I got to collab with @diandrecaprice on the Beef Patty illo 😀
(I made these like 6 months ago so its Disco Diffusion not Stable Diffusion in most places)
23 Sep 2022
NEW: The Food Issue, a type specimen for immersive reading. Edited by @litherland, designed by Nikhil Misra, built by Daniel Gamage
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23 Sep 2022
NEW: The Food Issue, a type specimen for immersive reading. Edited by @litherland, designed by Nikhil Misra, built by Daniel Gamage
foodissue.commercialtype.com
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23 Sep 2022
Explore the text faces from our library in six different kinds of articles, all centered around food and eating: an interview with @hels by @navalang, short fiction by @robinsloan, an essay by @helfitzgerald, a news story by Daniel Pravit Fathke, a recipe by Diane Chang…
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23 Sep 2022
...and an listicle written with help from the folks at Kuih Cafe, a Malaysian snack shop around the corner from our office in New York.
Illustrations by @dvsch, with help from @diandrecaprice.
We hope you enjoy it!
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23 Sep 2022
Check out this great new release from @letterror, LTR Principia: letterror.com/principia/
Berthold Wolpe influence, a lovely italic, a wide range of widths, fish… what more could you need?
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Commercial Type retweeted
22 Sep 2022
Original Sans in its original form
22 Sep 2022
Rather than being struck with a punch, sanspareil mats, for very large types, were created as brass or copper ‘stencils’ riveted to a metal backing plate. The rivets are visible in these examples. Invented by Caslon in 1810.
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20 Sep 2022
The collection of type specimens from before 1831 that @stbridelibrary has digitized is incredible. See more here:
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6 Sep 2022
New in the Vault: Lovesong, an homage to Brush Script that can be used in all caps, drawn by Miguel Reyes @font_taste for @Mr_Turley.
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6 Sep 2022
Updated in the Vault: @SNugue's asymetrically flared Moulin has been expanded to a full range of weights, from Thin to Super.
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6 Sep 2022
New in the Vault: Publico Headline Condensed by @andreepaat and Publico Banner Condensed and X Condensed by Thomas Bouillet.
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6 Sep 2022
New in the Vault: Ergon by @hrvojezivcic, a display face in 6 weights.
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17 Aug 2022
Miguel Reyes @font_taste also drew a display face to help tie the series together: Lovesong, inspired by Brush Script (designed in 1942 by Robert E. Smith) but usable in all caps.
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17 Aug 2022
As part of @Mr_Turley's guest editorship of @itsnicethat, @greggazdowicz and CS used images generated by GLID-3 as a jumping off point for drawing a fizzy drink logotype. Read all about the process here:
itsnicethat.com/features/mac…
3D graphic by Jae Yeon Kim
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