The Impossible Font
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New use of an old illusion, courtest Martzi Hegedűs via Mighty Optical Illusions.
A Short Film for Font Junkies
/Happy Fourth of July everyone!
The Alphabet from n9ve on Vimeo.
A Fount of Fonts
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Great article from Steven Heller, a former art director at The New York Times and a co-chair of the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts.
The computer has put the word “font” into common parlance as a synonym for typeface. But ask most people, even many young graphic designers, where the word comes from, and blank stares abound. (For the record, it’s from the 16th-century French word fonte, which is derived from fonder, or “to melt,” and denotes the action or process of casting or founding.)
That is why for the past two years I have made a pilgrimage, with School of Visual Arts students, to Cornuda, Italy, a village about 40 miles north of Venice, near the Palladio-designed Villa Barbaro, to the Tipoteca, a museum devoted to the history of letterpress printing and typefaces, or fonts.
Vacation
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Heading to the mountains with the family for a few days. In the meantime, check out this NY Times article by Steven Heller , a co-chair of the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts, about his visit to the Tipoteca, a museum devoted to the history of letterpress printing and typefaces, or fonts.
