Beatrice Warde Scholarship awarded to Tasnima Tanzim for her thought-provoking work
See this years winning work. Prestigious scholarship awarded to young female designers. Named in honor of the ‘the first lady of typography’ Beatrice Warde.
D&AD New Blood 2017 shortlist: Our pick of the pencils
We are proud to showcase the 2017 D&AD New Blood pencil winners, along with commentary from judges, Nadine Chahine and Malou Verlomme.
SST: a font for everywhere
The SST font tackles a central challenge of branding – universality. The SST superfamily supports more than 90 languages including Japanese, Thai and Arabic.
How the Whitney uses type to build an identity around art
Speaking at Typographics 2017, Director of Design Hilary Greenbaum explained how typography helps the museum keep the focus on its art.
Live stream TYPO 2017
Live stream TYPO Berlin, Europe’s largest design conference. On May 25-27, tune in to see talks from Underware, Michael Johnson, Debbie Millman and more
Variable fonts: big news from TYPO Labs 2017
At TYPO Labs 2017, the buzz was all about variable fonts. Read a summary of news including Google’s big announcement about browser support for variable fonts.
A is for Alphabet
In this article from The Recorder issue 4, Madeleine Morley takes in an A-Z of illustrated, illuminated and re-interpreted alphabets.
Thought Starters podcast brings together two women at the top of their game
This episode features Marina Willer of Pentagram and Nadine Chahine of Monotype. A 30-minute dose of fascinating dialogue about the business of creativity
TYPO Berlin: you only get ahead if you keep moving
An amazing line up of 60 speakers will take the stage at TYPO Berlin to explore how they use digital tools creatively and how to overcome digital distractions.
Masqualero: a luxury serif with a sharp tongue
Jim Ford’s Masqualero is a new font named for Miles Davis, embodying the jazz musician’s spiky personality down to every last one of its sharp serifs
Variable Fonts: making the promise a reality
Bob Taylor, Font Technologies Director, shares his views on the promise of Variable Fonts, some tests gone wrong, what he’s learned, and a new variable font
Beyond Authenticity report
Consumer trust in today’s landscape is paramount. Do your customers trust you? Explore brands winning trust through co-creation, transparency and typography
Adrian Shaughnessy talks music, vinyl and graphic design for Letterform Live
Theo Inglis chats with graphic designer, writer, lecturer, editor and publisher, Adrian Shaughnessy, about his love of design, vinyl and album art.
For the record by Adrian Shaughnessy
For many designers, a life in typography and graphic design began with album covers. This feature, by Adrian Shaughnessy, is from The Recorder Issue 4.
Tazugane Gothic: a Japanese typeface with the elegance of a crane
The first Japanese typeface from Monotype introduces a new standard, allowing designers to comfortably set Latin and Japanese alongside each other with harmony
Part 2: from TrueType GX to Variable Fonts
Tom Rickner introduces Monotype's first Variable font, available free on GitHub, and shares his research into potential use cases for variable fonts.
Neue Kabel: reshaping a lost classic
Watch a short documentary, featuring Marc Schütz. See how his Neue Kabel font design restores the liveliness of the original’s strikingly quirky characters.
Set in Stockholm
In this feature from the Recorder Issue 4, we meet Snask, whose typographic sculptures are proof that, sometimes, there’s just no beating the old-fashioned way.
Part 1: from TrueType GX to Variable Fonts
Tom Rickner, veteran type designer, shares his personal role in the beginnings of type’s most exciting development in decades.
12 design confessions from Steven Heller, Tobias Frere-Jones, Eddie Opara and more
Type designer Charles Nix shares twelve shocking confessions from the presenters at RGD Design Thinkers