Typography

The Rise of AI in Typography

Graphic Arts, Hmmn Interesting, Skills, Tech, Typography AI Generators, AI Image Generation, Artificial intelligence, Font Design, Graphic Design, Machine Learning, Skills, The AI Explosion, Type Specimens, Typeface Design, Typography

Artificial intelligence has transformed the way designers approach their craft, and typography is no exception.

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Broom Magazine 10 Vintage Covers

Design, FIne Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Print, Puppies and Flowers, Typography, Vintage, Vintage Prints 1920s, art deco periodicals, art deco style covers, Art Magazine, Avant Garde, Broom, Cover Art, Dadaism, Enrico Prampolini, surrealist art, Vintage Magazine Covers, Woodcuts

Broom Magazine was a revolutionary publication that changed the art world in the early 1920s. It provided an outlet for avant-garde art movements and helped to spread their ideas across Europe. The magazine was founded by Enrico Prampolini, who wanted to create a platform for artists to share their work […]

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Top Ten Jugend Vintage Magazine Covers from 1896

Arts, Europe, Graphic Arts, History, Illustration, Print, Typography, Vintage, Vintage Prints 1896, Art History, Art Nouveau, Cover Art, Germany, Heidelberg University Library, Illustration, Jugend, Magazine Covers, Top Ten, Vintage

Here’s my top ten Jugend vintage magazine covers from its first year of publication in 1896. Jugend, meaning ‘Youth’, was a German art magazine that with its variety of front cover styles and being loaded with illustrations, led the way for Germany’s Art Nouveau artists. It’s amazing to think that […]

20 Cigarette Rolling Paper Posters From 1889-1924

Advertising, Creative, Design, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Print, Skills, Typography, Vintage 1890's, Abadie, Advertising, Belle Époque, Chat Noir, Chérettes, Cigarettes, Job Papers, Le Nil, Paris, pulling tubes, Rolling Papers, Skins, Tabu Papers, Vintage Posters

Setting the tone for this post with a poster by Jules Chéret (1836-1932) advertising Job Cigarette Papers. You could say he was the Godfather of stone litho printing as a ‘pop’ phenomenon and just seeing his work demonstrates the influence it had on younger artists in Paris of the late […]

Art Deco Modiano Cigarette Posters

Advertising, Arts, Europe, Graphic Arts, Health, History, Illustration, Typography, Vintage Aladar Richter, Andreas Farkas, Art Deco, Cigarettes, Franz Lenhart, Italy, Lithographs, Róbert Berény, Sándor Bortnyik, Saul Modiano, Tibor Polya, Trieste, Typography, Vintage Posters, Zolton Konya

Founded by Saul Modiano in Trieste, Modiano made and marketed cigarette papers. I think of the art deco cigarette posters first when I hear the name Modiano.

Tomer Hanuka Meets Stanley Kubrick

Design, Film, Illustration, Print, Typography A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, Film Posters, Illustrations, Limited Editions, Lolita, screen prints, Stanley Kubrick, Tomer Hanuka

Tomer Hanuka is developing visual ideas for film and television. Here are some of his limited edition screen prints illustrating the classic film titles of Stanley Kubrick. More film poster collections.

The Retro Cinema Extinction

Architecture, History, Photography, The Planet, Typography, Vintage Bye Bye Brasil, Cinema, collection, Film, History, Movie House, Photos, Theatres, Vintage

A random collection of photos of old cinema houses, mostly defunct and run down.

Milton Glaser RIP 1929-2020

Advertising, Creative, Design, Graphic Arts, History, Illustration, Logo Design, Print, Skills, Typography 1960s, 1970's, Design, Graphics, Iconic, Milton Glaser, Necrology, New York Magazine, Push Pin Studios, RIP

Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929 – June 26, 2020) was an American graphic designer. His designs include the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster, and the logos for DC Comics and Brooklyn Brewery. In 1954, he also co-founded Push Pin Studios, co-founded New York magazine with Clay Felker, and established Milton Glaser, Inc.

20 Vintage Apple Crate Labels From the Pacific North West

Advertising, Design, Food, Graphic Arts, History, Illustration, Typography Advertising, Apple Crates, British Columbia, Bulman Bros, Ephemera, F.C. Smith Litho, Labels, Print, Vintage, Washington State

This collection of apple crate labels come from the Pacific North West, Washington State and British Columbia. These date from around the 1920s to 1930s and judging from the amount and variety it looks like it was a golden age for the fruit box label.

Scunthorpe Sans, Blocks Smut and Filth

Funny, Generators, Tech, Typography, Words etc British Steel, Censorship, Fonts, Funny, Redactions, Scunthorpe Sans, Typographic Humor, vole.wtf

The good folks over at Vole.wtf bring us Scunthorpe Sans, a self-censoring typeface. It’s able to detect the words f***, s***, p***, t***, w***, c*** and dozens more, but with a special exemption for “Scunthorpe”; that town has suffered enough. How this s*** works: Modern fonts can combine letters into […]