Have you ever cooked a meal at home and been delighted to find the perfect ingredient to complement your recipe? Maybe you forgot you had cilantro, crushed peanuts, or lemon juice, and it’s just the thing you needed to elevate your dish.
Long gone are the days of zipping up folders of font files and sharing them across your organization, or even messier, embedding fonts in documents in the cloud in hopes that the design remains intact. We recently announced an expanded set of licensing rights which allows all employees within an organization to access Commercial Production Fonts in their desktop environments.
This week we’re welcoming Andrew Krivine, author and punk rock collector, alongside Michael Worthington, faculty at CalArts and co-founder of Counterspace. The creative duo is here to tell the tale of how they co-created the largest exhibition of punk and new wave graphics ever shown on the West Coast.
Over the past four years, we’ve been lucky to forge a reciprocal partnership with the Limerick School of Art & Design / TUS in Ireland. Both Creative Type Directors Tom Foley and Emilios Theofanous have now participated in workshops and modules at the leading fine art, design and creative media school. This year’s students were asked to write a message platform for one typeface and build a marketing plan and design assets to promote it in digital or print media.
Rebranding a business is not for the faint of heart. It’s an enormous operation that requires significant time and investment while offering the possibility of totally revitalizing a brand.
Legibility is a crucial consideration when trying to choose a font for your project. Here’s how to find a legible font that will be easy on the eyes for your readers and customers.
Launching a website or app? Your font choice is key to your success. Here’s how to assess the legibility, consistency, performance, and longevity of your font choice.
Find design inspiration in an age of information overload.
In this article, get a peek at recent and upcoming book releases in a variety of genres to get a sense of what typography styles are trending in publishing right now. This post is a guest piece from our friends at Reedsy, a website that connects authors with publishing professionals.
Today’s brands must keep up with a fast-paced digital world and navigate a “new normal” that’s still emerging from the worst of the pandemic. The last few years shifted everyone’s digital expectations, how brands operate, and in some cases, impacted their business models. Moreover, issues like biodiversity, sustainability, diversity and equity, and brand activism are all booming. So how does this all impact brand building? These macro shifts are greatly influencing how companies position themselves, the services they offer, and how they communicate with their customers.
The typefaces or logo designs chosen by luxury houses are never random: they embody their values, history, and vision while reflecting their strategic positioning.
In this episode, Trevor Jackson shares his journey as a designer, music producer, and artist, providing an inside look at his creative philosophy and groundbreaking work. Trevor’s story is a masterclass in doing what you love, not what the industry thinks you *should* do. Tune in now.
In a recent collaboration, OPX Studio and Monotype embarked on a transformative journey to refresh the branding of the Trussell Trust, a charity organization committed to ending hunger in the UK. This exciting project was spearheaded by David Bennet, Creative Director of OPX Studio, alongside Emilios Theofanous, Creative Type Director at Monotype, and Phil Garnham, Executive Creative Director at Monotype.
On this week’s episode, Kris Andrew Small talks about converting frustration into energetic creativity, coping with ADHD, and finding inspiration in 80s New York and his vibrant Sydney surroundings. Tune in now.
Toddle, a pioneering ed-tech platform, is dedicated to empowering educators with tools to create and deliver world-class learning experiences. With a mission to simplify teaching and learning for schools and teachers worldwide, Toddle places design and user experience at the core of its product strategy.
Ready to dive into the world of political design? Tune in to hear Shar Biggers’ wild ride designing for high-stakes presidential campaigns, from working on Hillary’s 2016 run to the rollercoaster of the Biden-Harris rebrand.
Type is a mirror on culture — the themes of “now” create the visual cultures of tomorrow. Tune in to explore the themes in Re:Vision, a transformative approach to our annual trends report, and discover how type shapes the world around us.
Join us for a delightful chat with Taekyeom Lee, the graphic designer and educator who takes typography off the page and into the third dimension. Tune in now.