Typography News
Type With Pride Contest
Ogilvy & Mather NYC, in partnership with Fontself, recently launched Type With Pride, a milestone color font project to honor Gilbert Baker, the designer of the iconic Rainbow Flag.
Emtype Foundry Releases Akkordeon
Emtype Foundry has unveiled Akkordeon, a display font family roughly inspired by grotesques from the XIX and XX centuries.
TYPO Labs 2017 Discusses Variable Fonts
The highlight of the three-day font developer conference, TYPO Labs in Berlin, was the final lecture, where Google manager, Dominik Röttsches, who is responsible for layout and text on Chrome, announced the release of a developer version of the browser (Canary) which supports the new variable font format OT 1.8 on all platforms.
Adobe Releases Source Han Serif, Pan-CJK Typeface
Adobe has today released Source Han Serif, the second Pan-CJK typeface family from Adobe Type, and the serif complement to Source Han Sans.
ISType 2017
The 2017 ISType will be held June 9-10 in Istanbul under the theme of 'Variation.' The event offers an international platform at which students, professionals and enthusiasts can share their ideas and inspire each other.
Typomania Video Contest 2017
Typomania 2017, the International Typographic Festival, is calling for video works containing type as the active component. The call is open to individual authors, as well as creative groups, without any age restrictions.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2017
Entries are now open for the 25th Red Dot Award: Communication Design. The competition offers agencies, designers and companies from all over the world a platform for evaluating their design and creative achievements.
2017 SOTA Catalyst Award
Entries are now open for the eighth annual SOTA Catalyst Award. The Award aims to bring focus on young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography. It recognizes a person 25 years of age or younger who shows both achievement and future promise in the field of typography.
Artegra Sans by Ceyhun Birinci
Ceyhun Birinci has unveiled Artegra Sans, a gigantic typeface family consisting of 162 fonts with 1500+ glyphs per font.
TypeCon2017: Call for Programming
The Society of Typographic Aficionados has announced a Call for Programming for TypeCon2017. Taking place from August 23rd to 27th in Boston, Massachusetts, TypeCon will bring together an enormous range of typographic talks, trends, and topics.
Type Over Time: A Celebration of 70 Years of the Type Directors Club
The Type Directors Club has announced a daylong series of typography talks and a reception in New York City on March 10.
Melbourne Art Book Fair 2017
A never-ending book club, an international symposium on typography, an Australian zine showcase and a Wikipedia edit-a-thon are among the fifty events of the third annual Melbourne Art Book Fair, which will take place at NGV International from March 16-19, 2017.
Goudy and Syracuse: The Tale of a Typeface Found
Dress Code produced and directed a new video about the story of rediscovering Sherman, a typeface designed by Fredric Goudy in 1910 and revived by Chester Jenkins in 2016 for Syracuse University.
Restaurant Branding: New Master Class Series by Type Directors Club
Type Directors Club has just announced the inaugural class in its new series of Master Classes being held in New York City, beginning February 27.
TypeCon2017: Back to Boston
The Society of Typographic Aficionados has announced that Boston, Massachusetts will be the host city for TypeCon2017 next summer - August 23rd to 27th. The event will take place at Boston's iconic Park Plaza Hotel - situated in the heart of Back Bay.
The Drum Design Awards 2017
The 2017 Drum Design Awards is now open for entries. Now in its fourth year, the Drum Design Awards recognize the industry's best design feats of the year.
Emtype Releases Geogrotesque Slab
Emtype has released Geogrotesque Slab, the ideal companion of the popular Geogrotesque.
3rd Annual Typography & Lettering Awards
The final deadline for PRINT's 3rd Annual Typography & Lettering Awards is December 2, 2017. The awards focus on three categories: Typographic Designs, Typeface Designs, and Handlettered Works.
TYPO Berlin 2017
The 22nd TYPO Berlin will be dedicated to the diversions of our time - digital communication, mobility and virtual reality. In more than 60 presentations, workshops and panel discussions, designers, developers and creatives from all over the world will take a look at the cravings of an era.
TDC63 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The Type Directors Club is calling for submissions for its 63rd Communication Design Competition and the 20th Typeface Design Competition. The competitions highlight the world's best typographic work in both communication and typeface design.
TYPO Labs 2017: New Dimensions in Type Engineering
After a successful premiere in May 2016, TYPO Labs will open its door again next spring, from April 6 - 8, 2017 in Berlin.
Graphis Typography 4: Typeface Design Competition
The fourth Graphis Typography: Typeface Design Competition is now open for submissions. Alone as typeface or in the context of posters, brochures, editorial spreads, advertisements and other printed material, the competition aims to showcase work that exemplifies the highest creative standards.
Jury Selects Winners of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2016
The winners of the 2016 Red Dot Award: Communication Design has been chosen. From Corporate Design and Apps to Retail Design, the competition aims to showcase the excellent communication solutions in the design industry.
Design Exposed: Call for Submissions
Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic are calling for submissions for their new book on the myriad ways designers, illustrators, photographers and art directors have involved the human body in graphic, advertising and typographic design.
Typeface to Interface: Graphic Design from the Collection
On view at the SFMOMA through October 23, the Typeface to Interface exhibition presents a selection from the museum's permanent collection of graphic design since 1950.
Granshan 2016: 9th International Type Design Competition
Entries are open for the 9th Granshan International Type Design Competition. Type designers, manufacturers and publishers are invited to submit typefaces or type families in three new main categories: non-Latin, non-Latin-Latin, and Multiscript non-Latin.
Communication Arts' 2017 Typography Competition: Call for Entries
Communication Arts' 7th annual Typography Competition is now open for submissions. The competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering.
Type Hybrid: Typography in Multilingual Design
Increasingly globalized, the world is looking for a new-era language that can unite and identify with multiple cultures at once.
Roxane Gataud Named Winner of 2016 Catalyst Award
The Society of Typographic Aficionados has announced that Roxane Gataud of Paris, France will be the recipient of the 2016 SOTA Catalyst Award.
Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016
The 2016 Morisawa Type Design Competition is now open for entries. The competition is open to any individual, group or nationality.
Typographics 2016: A Design Festival for People Who Use Type
Typographics, a typography conference organized by Cooper's Type@Cooper, returns for a second year to The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
T+Co Crafts Own Letterpress Business Cards
When it came time to make new business cards, creative agency Trollbäck + Company (T+Co) seized the opportunity to multiply their creative imprint to artfully express the tenets of their creative philosophy as a company and created a beautiful short film that captures the time-honored craft of letterpressing.
2016 SOTA Catalyst Award
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is calling for entries for its seventh annual SOTA Catalyst Award. The award is targeted at young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography.
Fontself Maker
Fontself Maker, a new extension for Illustrator CC that lets users convert their custom-designed lettering into actual fonts without having to leave their favorite vector editor, is now available.
Thankful. Promotional Package by typotherapy
Creative Director Noël Nanton and the team at typotherapy created a holiday promo for all their suppliers and clients that expressed how thankful they are working closely with them.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2016
The 2016 Red Dot Award: Communication Design is now open for entries. From Corporate Design and Apps to Retail Design, the competition aims to showcase the excellent communication solutions in the design industry.
Studio Parr Creates Exciting New Look for UPM Raflatac Wine & Spirits Swatchbook
UPM Raflatac partnered with Studio Parr with a brief to showcase their knowledge, innovation, craftsmanship and sheer passion for the production of self-adhesive wine and spirits label materials.
typotherapy: A Book of Creative Thoughts
Each month a different award winning Canadian design studio is given the finest paper and the finest print craftsmen to design a book as part of Flash Reproduction's prestigious Wayward Arts Studio Series.
The Type Deck
Designed by Chris Cavill, the Type Deck is a typography style poker deck targeted at individuals who share a love for creativity.
TypeCon2016 Seattle
TypeCon 2016 will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Seattle on August 24th to 28th. TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts.
Camber by Eduardo Manso
Eduardo Manso has released Camber, a noiseless typeface with a geometric base. It has a synthetic and clean design, but with a human sensitivity where the geometry fails.
TDC62 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The 62nd Annual Type Directors Club Communication Design Competition (TDC62) and the 19th Annual TDC Typeface Design Competition (TDC 2016) are now open for entries.
Type Directors Club Beatrice Warde Scholarship 2016
The TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship will be awarded to a female student, who demonstrates excellence and promise in the design of type, and who is currently enrolled in her junior undergraduate year.
26 Creative Characters
26 Creative Characters is a unique alphabet made by twenty-six leading international typographic designers, including Alex Trochut, Thonik and Hansje van Halem.
thirty: Exhibition Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
thirty, an exhibition celebrating 30 years of one of the first archives devoted to graphic design, opens at the 41 Cooper Gallery on September 10.
TypeGallery2015: Call for Submissions
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is calling for entries for the TypeGallery2015 - the annual unjuried showcase of new typeface design.
6th Annual Typography Competition: Call for Entries
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 6th Annual Typography Competition. The competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering.
TypeCon2015: Condensed
The 2015 TypeCon will be held August 12-17 in Denver, Colorado. TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts.
Typographics: A Design Conference on Contemporary Typography Comes to New York City
Typographics is an ambitious two-day typography conference, surrounded by two weeks of workshops and events, planned for this June at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. Organized by Cooper's Type@Cooper and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, the conference provides a platform for designers to share broad perspectives on where typography is today and where it is going.
Communication Arts 2015 Design and Advertising Competitions: Call for Entries
Communication Arts magazine is calling for entries for its 56th annual Design and Advertising Competitions.
2015 SOTA Catalyst Award
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is calling for entries for the sixth annual SOTA Catalyst Award. The award is targeted at young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography.
Applied Arts 2015 Design Awards
The 2015 Applied Arts Design Awards is open for submissions. Launched more than 20 years ago, the competition celebrates the very best work produced throughout North America and abroad.
BIC Universal Typeface
BIC Universal, the world's first crowd-sourced typeface, is now available for download.
Life Agency Redesigns Monotype Recorder
Life Agency designer Luke Tonge has revived The Monotype Recorder, an influential typography magazine which relaunches this month as a biannual publication.
Type Directors Club 2014 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The Type Directors Club's 61st Communication Design Competition and 18th Typeface Design Competition are now open for entries.
Michael Doret to Speak at Typography Meetup in LA
Michael Doret, the designer known for his logos, album covers, and magazine covers and art for major brands such as Wreck-It Ralph, the New York Knicks, MLB, Time Magazine, Playboy, Wired, TV Guide, Kiss, Capitol Records and Universal Studios will be the speaker at the next Los Angeles Is Just My Type Meetup Group event.
Graphic Digits: New Typographic Approach to Numerals
Viction:ary has released Graphic Digits, a groundbreaking review focusing on numeral designs and applications.
Communication Arts 5th Annual Typography Competition
Communication Arts' 5th annual Typography Competition is open for entries.
Source Han Sans: Adobe Releases Open Source Font Family That Supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages
Adobe has just released Source Han Sans, an open source typeface that supports Japanese, Chinese and Korean, as well as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets.
Source Serif: Adobe's New Open Source Typeface
Adobe has released its 100th Typeface family, Source Serif, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Adobe Originals font library.
Krista Radoeva Wins 2014 Catalyst Award
Krista Radoeva has been announced as the winner of the 2014 SOTA Catalyst Award.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2014
The Red Dot is now accepting entries for the 2014 Communication Design Award.
TypeCon2014: Call for Programming
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is calling for programming proposals for its sixteenth annual conference.
SVA Summer Masters Workshop 2014 in Rome
The 2014 SVA Summer Masters Workshop in Rome will offer a two-week intensive hands-on workshop in typography and graphic design in the city where Western type traditions were born.
Shadow Type: Classic Three-Dimensional Lettering
Designers often look to the past for ways to enliven their projects. Letters with relief and shadow have long been an effective way to add spectacle or intrigue to otherwise mundane words.
TYPO San Francisco 2014: Rhythm
The 2014 TYPO San Francisco conference will be held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on April 10 & 11, 2014.
Type Therapy Clinic Helps Los Angeles Graphic Designers Add Professionalism to Their Work
After seeing so much bad typography around Los Angeles, TypeEd is offering designers a three-hour self-help clinic presented in a group therapy format.
Hamilton Wood Type Collaborates with Erik Spiekermann for Wayzgoose 2013
Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is collaborating with internationally known type designer Erik Spiekermann, as part of its annual Wayzgoose type conference.
Type Directors Club Annual Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The Type Directors Club's 60th annual Communication Design Competition and 17th annual Typeface Design Competition are now open for entries.
Communication Arts Typography Competition 2014
Communication Arts magazine is calling for submissions for its 4th annual Typography Competition.
Bunch Designs Identity for Willow Tree
Bunch has designed a new but traditional looking identity for Willow Tree, a leading business consultancy based in London.
TypeCon2013: Portland
TypeCon2013, an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), will take place August 21-25 at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
Indygen: Brandient Designs a New Brand for the Digital Natives
Brandient recently designed the identity for Indygen, a new telecom brand for the smartly connected generation.
Whisky Type Workshop: The Art and Science of Label Typography
Type Ed, the Los Angeles-based program of typography and typesetting courses for the creative community, is equipping designers with the skills to create effective visual communications.
Collateral for After the Jump
On June 7, 2013, Sullivan and the Type Directors Club of New York, presented "After the Jump." A one-day symposium that brought together some of today's most inspiring industry leaders to discuss how technology affects human behavior and how those effects impact design and typography.
After the Jump: Technology's Effect on Design and Typography
TDC and Sullivan will host a symposium that will bring together some of today's most inspiring industry leaders to discuss how technology affects human behavior and how those effects impact design and typography.
Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show at MOCA Pacific Design Center
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will host the first Los Angeles museum exhibition of the work of graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, The Happy Show, from March 20 through June 9, 2013.
TYPO San Francisco 2013: Contrast
The second annual TYPO San Francisco will be held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) on April 11 & 12 around the theme Contrast.
SOTA Catalyst Award 2013: Call for Entries
The Society of Typographic Aficionados has launched the fourth annual SOTA Catalyst Award.
TYPO Berlin 2013: TOUCH
TYPO Berlin 2013 will be held from May 16 through 18, at the House of World Cultures. The theme of the conference will be "TOUCH."
FontBook Now Available for iPhone
FontShop International has released a new version of the award-winning FontBook app, compatible with all iOS devices, including iPhone. The universal update is free for those who already own the iPad version.
Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show at the Design Exchange
Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show will be on view at the Design Exchange from January 9 through March 3, 2013.
TYPO London 2012: Social
TYPO London 2012 will take at the Logan Hall of the Institute of Education on October 19 and 20. The theme for this year's conference is "Social."
Frost Creates Environmental Graphics for Stanmore Public School, Sydney
Pupils returning to Stanmore Public School in Sydney after the spring break will have a whole new reason to get lost in a good book, thanks to Frost* Design's recent work on their new library.
Communication Arts Typography Competition 2013
Organized by Communication Arts, Typography Competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering.
VALUES! Trend Diary 2013
The Trend Diary is a desk diary featuring the inspiring work of 53 designers that explore the theme of 'values.'
Trochut Creates New Font for Wallpaper's September Issue
Barcelona-born Alex Trochut has designed a bespoke typeface, entitled Trojan, for Wallpaper*'s September fashion issue.
FontShop Releases Adobe PhotoShop Plugin
FontShop International released its Photoshop Plugin, enabling designers to test out 150,000+ fonts in any Photoshop document.
The Second Episode of Off Book: Typography
Type is everywhere. Every print publication, website, movie, advertisement and public message involves the creation or selection of a fitting typeface.
Type Connection: A Typographic Dating Game
Designed by Aura Seltzer, Type Connection is a game that helps you learn how to pair typefaces.
ATypI Hong Kong 2012
For the first time in its 56 years of history, ATypI will hold its annual conference in Hong Kong. It will take place between October 10 and 14 2012.
Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister not only tests the boundary between art and design, he often transgresses it through his imaginative implementation of typography.
Mobile FontFonts Expanded to Android
FontShop International has expanded its Mobile FontFonts for use on the Android app development platform.
TypeCast Webinar: What Type is Your Logo? with Jeff Fisher
The selection of the appropriate type for your logo design may determine the success of the image in representing a business, organization or event.
TypeCon2012: MKE SHFT
The Society of Typographic Aficionados will bring TypeCon2012: MKE SHFT to Milwaukee, Wisconsin - July 31st - August 5th, 2012.
Ramp Creative Receives Honors From The TDC58 Competition
The Agostoni Chocolate logomark, designed by Ramp Creative, was recognized by the Type Directors Club for typographic excellence.
Design and Style: Typography Sketchbooks
Design historian Steven Heller and educator Lita Talarico, co-chairs of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, and designers Travis Cain, Viktor Koen, Matt Luckhurst, Esther K Smith + Dikko Faust (of Purgatory Pie Press) will discuss the merits of the graphic designer's typography sketchbook, a creative "work-out" space for generating ideas and drafting unique type that becomes synonymous with brands and institutions around the world.
FontBook 2.0
FontShop International released version 2.0 of the FontBook iPad app, available for $5.99 in the iTunes App Store or free for those who purchased v1.0.
SOTA Catalyst Award 2012: Call for Entries
The Society of Typographic Aficionados announced the third annual SOTA Catalyst Award for young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography.
24th Annual Hilla Rebay Lecture: The Artist as Typographer
Recent years have seen a proliferation of younger artists whose work employs typography, printed characters, or even the very institution of printing.