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Seb Lester: Keep It Simple
Keep Calm Gallery—the South London purveyor of typography and poster design—recently added Seb Lester to their stable of artists. One of the United Kingdom's more renowned type designers, his work has graced the pages of the New York Times, GQ and the Sunday Times. He's also had typefaces used by corporations like Intel and Dell. To mark the occasion, Lester designed the limited edition...

Fraktur Mon Amour Giveaway
I'm happy to confess my weakness for beautiful books like the new love letter to Blackletter typography "Fraktur Mon Amour"—though I have to admit it had been some time since I came across one that stopped me in my tracks like this one did. Berlin-based designer Judith Schalansky's presentation of the typeface collection is almost more compelling than the fonts themselves. Bound like a...

Fifty Designers' Current Favorite Typefaces
With his Fifty Designer's Current Favorite Typefaces book, James West of the Essex design studio Create/Reject has come up with a simple and useful project in response to the Myanmar Cyclone disaster. Enlisting the participation of fifty graphic designers and typographers from around the world, West has put together a timely snapshot of the creative predilections of today's best talents. Participants include Stefan Sagmeister,...

Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany
The 26 letters of the Roman alphabet operate almost subconsciously once ingrained in young minds. The resulting familiarity proves invaluable in life, but also makes it difficult to step back and examine letters as standalone objects. In "Letter by Letter", designer/calligrapher/artist Laurent Pflughaupt aims to do just that with an exhaustive overview of each letter in the alphabet. He begins with a historical look...