This is absolutely wonderful!
There’s deep dives and then there’s Marcin’s deeeeeeep dives. Sit back and enjoy this wholesome detective work, all beautifully presented with lovely interactive elements.
This is what the web is for!
A profile of Susan Kare, icon designer extraordinaire.
I loved the puzzle-like nature of working in sixteen-by-sixteen and thirty-two-by-thirty-two pixel icon grids, and the marriage of craft and metaphor.
I love this idea (and implementation)—instead of treating braille signage as something “separate but equal”, this typeface attempts to unify lettering and braille into one.
Braille Neue is a universal typeface that combines braille with existing characters. This typeface communicates to both the sighted and blind people in the same space.
If only our digital social networks were to exhibit this kind of faded grandeur when they no longer exist.
I’ve seen letterforms you people wouldn’t believe…
We better get used to them…
A cute idea: see how signs (mostly in Brazil) would look if they were set in Helvetica.
A lovely little ode to the manicule.
"There is a common misbelief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system. In this ‘Design discussions’, we talk to the author who has uncovered the truth (maybe) behind the story."
A wonderfully engaging history of Johnston Underground.
A collection of directional signage & wayfinding artifacts, well-executed or otherwise.
An editorially managed collection of type-related goodies: "Think of it as FFFFound for all things type, typography, lettering, & signage."
I don't think the end of Catcher In The Rye will have quite the same impact after browsing through the signs on display here. This is big and it is clever.
The paper of Joe's talk at ATypI Brighton. It's fascinating, well-researched stuff.