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fromChrbutler
1 day ago

Craft is Untouchable - Christopher Butler

Craft is often defined as skill in making things by hand, but this interpretation is being challenged by AI. Craft transcends physical interaction; historical figures like Mozart and Beethoven exemplify mastery without traditional methods.
Intellectual property law
Graphic design
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Even more beautiful than I imagined': the nifty Japanese printing gadget uniting artists worldwide

Gabriella Marcella curates an exhibition showcasing risograph art, highlighting its unique aesthetic and community impact.
Writing
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design writing needs designers writing

Writing and design stem from a shared love of history and complex ideas, with personal expression being key to the author's creative process.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
4 days ago

This Artist Creates Dark Wood-Burned Illustrations Exploring Identity And The Human Psyche

Robb is an Italian artist known for his intricate pyrography, creating dark, psychological imagery that explores themes of identity and isolation.
Fashion & style
fromI Love Typography Ltd
6 days ago

A Brief History of the Dust Jacket - I Love Typography Ltd

Dust jackets evolved from protective covers to marketing tools, first appearing in the 1760s and gaining popularity in the 1920s with advances in color printing.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
23 hours ago

One Last Chance to See Durer's Monumental Print in NYC

Albrecht Dürer's 'Triumphal Arch' will be stored at the New York Public Library this fall due to its age and fragility.
#design
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Claude Takes On Monet

Anthropic set up an interactive experience that turned two typewriters into interfaces to chat with Claude. Visitors type questions about the exhibition, and Claude responds based on provided information.
Paris food
Graphic design
fromKotaku
4 days ago

Artist Recreates 17th Century Baroque Masterpiece On Kid Pix

Cat Graffam recreates Artemisia Gentileschi's 'Jael and Sisera' using Kid Pix, highlighting the intersection of technology and fine art.
Web design
fromThedrum
4 weeks ago

Brothers Bring Former Printing Press Building Into The Digital Age

Soap Media opened a new headquarters in a restored Victorian building in Preston city centre, combining historic architecture with modern design to support company growth and attract talent.
Graphic design
fromMedium
2 weeks ago

For Craft Sake: On the laws and principles behind good design

Craft is experiencing a resurgence in product design, emphasizing fundamental skills amidst the rise of generative AI and industry confusion.
Writing
fromHarvard Gazette
3 weeks ago

You know the author. Meet the typist. - Harvard Gazette

Women typists played essential but often uncredited roles in producing major literary and academic works, from typing manuscripts to transcribing interviews for famous authors and scholars.
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Britpop to Breaking Bad: This book proves just how culturally iconic the Clarks brand is

I developed the book's grid and typographic style in collaboration with designer David Carroll, then laid out the book myself, focusing on clean design that allows the imagery to breathe. The aim was to create something that feels timeless and functional, rather than overly stylised.
Typography
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

May You Live in Interesting Times - The IFPDA Print Fair Asks, Do Bad Times Really Inspire Great Art?

The IFPDA Print Fair showcases 80 exhibitors displaying printmaking from Goya to Walker, demonstrating how artists use prints as therapy and critique during times of crisis and political turmoil.
Typography
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Eleanor Yang merges the synthetic and organic to make typography you can touch

Synthetic Nature presents three typefaces—DNA, Mesh, and Data—that metaphorically represent life through biological, network, and computational structures, exploring how biology, computation, and culture merge.
Cars
fromLmnt
1 month ago

Have We Forgotten How to Design?

Waymo's partnership with DoorDash to manually close passenger car doors reveals a fundamental oversight in autonomous vehicle design, despite the availability of proven automated door technology.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How to Start an Analog Hobby

Analog hobbies gain popularity as counterbalance to digital culture; start by identifying activities requiring patience and present-moment focus.
Books
fromianVisits
1 month ago

New exhibition explores how early printing developed into readable books

William Caxton revolutionized English book printing in the late 15th century, transforming books from elite luxury items into affordable, widely accessible products through rapid technological advancement.
Arts
fromOpen Culture
3 weeks ago

Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition

The first globe was created in 1492 by Martin Behaim and Georg Glockkendon, beginning a 500-year handmade tradition that continued until machines replaced manual production in the 20th century.
Games
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

Printworks and Rosewood Define New State of Play

Play is foundational for developing relationships, maintaining cognitive sharpness, and building strategy skills through structured rules and meaningful challenge.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
4 weeks ago

Lydia Chodosh probes design rules through archiving and cataloguing

Designer Lydia Chodosh interrogates how knowledge is acquired and transmitted through language, archival systems, and interdisciplinary design practice informed by literature, publishing, and visual communication.
Arts
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

You'll Need a Magnifying Glass to Read Some of the World's Smallest Books at the V&A

Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle contains nearly 600 miniature books designed by leading craftspeople, representing a remarkable collection of scaled literary works from the early 20th century.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
29 years ago

Bringing Back the Luster to the Grace

The Grace Apartment Hotel, a historic 1906 colonial structure, undergoes a million-dollar restoration to improve tenant living conditions while maintaining its affordable monthly rent of $255.
Typography
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Claude can turn your handwriting into a font. Here's how

Claude AI can convert handwritten characters from scanned pages into installable TrueType fonts using Python tools, eliminating the need for specialized font creation software.
Arts
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

Longevity and Obsoletion Impress Upon Alexander Endrullat's Intaglio Prints

Artist Alexander Endrullat creates prints by running discarded laptops through a century-old printing press, revealing device destruction and internal structures while commenting on consumption and planned obsolescence.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

The illustrations of Sebastian Curi are all about learning analogue tools (flaws and freckles included)

Sebastian integrates multiple artistic mediums—acrylic painting, colored pencils, and relief printing—while using digital tools primarily for documentation and learning the foundational principles behind each technique.
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Visual communication that challenges convention: Phantasia on how graphic design can forge true collaboration

Phantasia, a Barcelona-based design studio founded in 2021, prioritizes meaningful projects that serve communities through intentional collaboration, diversity, and accessible communication.
fromArtnet News
4 weeks ago

Oops, Typo! A New Exhibition Embraces 500 Years of Printed Mistakes

What we found was that errata sheets were not only spaces for corrections but also sites of humor, legal maneuvering, and reinterpretation. With this exhibition, we wanted to share ways in which even small corrections can reshape meaning and authority.
Arts
Typography
fromColossal
1 month ago

'Lettres Decoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siecle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms

French sign painters from the 19th and early 20th centuries created decorative alphabets that evolved from simple forms into bold, eye-catching lettering styles documented in lithograph portfolios.
Writing
fromEsquire
1 month ago

The Lost Art of Writing a Note by Hand

Handwritten letters have become rare due to digital communication, but writing them remains a meaningful way to express thoughtfulness and create lasting impressions.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
1 month ago

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Curve Display - I Love Typography Ltd

Curve Display is a Didone-inspired display font that balances classical elegance with experimental, abstract letterforms, making it distinctive yet accessible for contemporary graphic design.
History
fromI Love Typography Ltd
3 months ago

Heart-shaped Books - I Love Typography Ltd

Cultures historically assigned varied meanings to the heart, shaping embalming practices, sacrificial rites, devotional symbolism, and the heart-shaped pictogram's development.
#typeface
Graphic design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The architectural sketch is back

The architectural sketch is experiencing a revival in contemporary practice despite decades of digital dominance, as architects recognize the unique value of hand-drawn work in an AI-driven world.
#lego
#typewriter-modding
Graphic design
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

This Vintage Find Is Everywhere Right Now - and It's Surprisingly Timeless

Vintage needlework samplers are experiencing a resurgence in popularity as collectors appreciate handmade fiber arts pieces available at thrift stores and flea markets.
fromBored Panda
2 months ago

80 Vintage Ads That Show Which Values Changed And Which Stayed The Same Over Time

We might be exposed to more ads and commercials today than ever before in human history, but the idea of advertising itself is certainly not a new concept. According to Instapage, the first signs of advertisements actually appeared in ancient Egyptian steel carvings from 2000 BC. Meanwhile, the first printed ad was published in 1472, when William Caxton decided to advertise a book by posting flyers on church doors in England.
Marketing
Digital life
fromMedium
2 months ago

Going analog in 2026

A 2026 cultural shift embraces analog technologies, crafts, and slow, intentional experiences as a counterbalance to digital overload and AI-driven shortform content.
UX design
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

How the Right Photobook Software Turns Frustrated Browsers into Loyal Buyers

Complex, time-consuming photobook tools lose customers; intuitive, AI-assisted automatic creation that prepares an editable book is required to convert modern, time-poor users.
Typography
fromMedium
1 month ago

How Monotype turns selling fonts into daylight robbery

Singapore replaced the superior Gotham font with the inferior Metropolis font in their 60th anniversary logo, raising questions about font licensing and corporate practices.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

Zerowriter Ink Is an Open-Source E-Paper Typewriter Built for Writers - Yanko Design

Trying to write on a laptop means fighting a machine that is also a notification box, streaming portal, and social feed. Distraction-free apps help, but they still live inside the same browser-and-tab chaos, surrounded by everything else your computer knows how to do. Some writers just want a device that only knows how to produce plain text and does not care about anything else happening in the world.
Gadgets
fromLondon On The Inside
1 month ago

Learn How to Make Journal Covers With Moleskine

You'll get a pre-made faux leather cover to decorate and personalise with a range of buttons, charms, stamps and fabric pieces. You'll learn to experiment with collage and layering techniques and combine different types of embellishments to add texture, colour and personality to your journal.
Arts
History
fromI Love Typography Ltd
4 months ago

Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera - I Love Typography Ltd

Seventeenth-century London printed weekly Bills of Mortality, sold widely for a penny, revealing profitable public demand for mortality statistics and morbid curiosity.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

"A scrapbook of raw, layered process, inspiration and practice": Dixon Baxi on their 500-page manifesto for making

"We started by asking everyone to collect images regularly. Just spontaneous snapshots as we went. Of everything. Sketches, screens, notes, half thoughts, moments in motion. Over time it became this huge grab bag of elements," Simon says.
Books
fromFlowingData
1 month ago

Illustrated engineering in everyday objects

I take the product apart. CAD it up. Illustrate each view. Then animate and lay it out for the web. That sounds quick, but it does take me quite a bit of time to create each one.
Graphic design
Mindfulness
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

13 Creative Ways to Fill an Analog Bag if You Want to Stop Staring at Your Phone

An analog bag is a portable tote filled with tactile items to replace phone use, encourage hobbies, reduce doomscrolling, and provide relaxation and accomplishment.
Digital life
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

Is the Analog Lifestyle Trend Really Analog at All?

A growing analog lifestyle movement reduces screen time through nostalgic, hands-on activities while its online popularity risks undermining offline goals.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Radioposter Launches Paper-fi: Analog Books with Synchronized Soundtracks

Radioposter has built what it calls Paper-fi: physical books with synchronized audio soundtracks that follow readers in real time as they turn each page. No chips embedded in the paper, no QR codes to scan. The system uses patented computer vision and other modes through a smartphone or smart glasses to track your place in the book and play the corresponding audio.
Arts
History
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Shop windows tell the story of London's revolutionary illustrated newspapers

A corner shop at the Strand now displays Lost Landscapes of Print, showcasing 19th-century Strand printers, an 1862 replica press, and related printing artifacts.
#type-design
Design
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the limits of imperfection as a design strategy

Design trends show a return to tactile, analogue aesthetics, but much purportedly handmade work is digitally faked, raising authenticity concerns.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Hermes' hand-illustrated website is the ultimate luxury

If you visit the Hermès website in search of a scarf or a handbag, you'll be greeted by a collection of whimsical sea creatures swimming across the screen. To navigate to the watch section, you'll click on an image of a watch flanked by an eel. To locate shoes, you'll click on a loafer with a pelican sitting inside it as if it were riding a boat.
Fashion & style
Writing
fromFortune
2 months ago

Gen Zers and millennials go analog with letter writing, typewriter clubs and calligraphy to take a break from screen time | Fortune

People are reconnecting through retro tactile communication methods like letter writing, calligraphy and typewriting to slow down, reduce digital use, and build meaningful relationships.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Pedro Stolf is making sci-fi queer again with futuristic graphic design

Massaranduba, the small agricultural town in the south of Brazil that Pedro grew up in is far from sci-fi, but this graphic designer's imagination takes him some place else. From posters, illustration, magazine layouts and typefaces (such as pieces that focus on sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin 's fictional Kesh alphabet), Pedro works digitally with a focus on textures and grit, using dithers and fractals to build upon visual world's textures. His projects are "mood-centred", which begin by assembling references from all over to refine feelings that are conjured up by consuming films, fashion, music and other visual forms.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

A Typewriter-Inspired Calculator in Vibrant Coral Red Just Stole Our Heart - Yanko Design

At first glance, the GIA looks like it time-traveled from a 1960s Italian design studio, stopped briefly in 2026 to pick up some modern tech, and landed on your desk with a personality. The inspiration comes from Olivetti typewriters, those gorgeous mechanical machines that made office work feel like an art form. Remember when tools had character? When objects didn't just function but made you feel something? That's what Bedrina is tapping into here.
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

This archival book celebrates the bygone eras of the humble crisp packet

Helping people to reconnect with old memories, viewers are transported to their local corner shop, school playgrounds and childhood cupboards. "I think this project has struck a chord because there's a particular interest in hand drawn designs of the past in the current age of AI where human effort is at an all-time low. Now the first thought is 'I'll get AI to do that', rather than commissioning an illustrator," says Chris.
Graphic design
#typography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Meet Federico Seneca, The Visionary of Italian Poster Art

Federico Seneca (18911976) emerged as one of the most influential graphic designers of the early 20th century, known for fusing avantgarde artistry with commercial clarity. As art director for Perugina and later Buitoni, he reshaped Italian advertising by replacing literal imagery with bold, metaphordriven visuals. His most iconic contribution was the Baci chocolate identity, inspired by Hayez's *The Kiss*, featuring two lovers silhouetted against deep midnight blue. Drawing heavily from Futurism and Cubism, his work embraced geometric forms, dramatic contrasts,
Graphic design
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
4 months ago

Fonts in Focus: Gieo Text - I Love Typography Ltd

Gieo Text reinvigorates the classic humanist serif with calligraphic stroke modulation, asymmetrical serifs, rightward motion, modern italics, and Vietnamese language support.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Faber Editions' type-led cover design system is breathing new life into old books

Those he saw as "most successful" had a "bold typographic and/or illustrative treatment" which in turn "countered the dominance" of the branding strip that ran down the side. "This realisation led me to define some rules for the designs of the individual covers that tried to ensure that the covers would never feel overwhelmed by the branding system," says Pete. "The core rule was that the Editions would essentially be typographic covers, or typographically-led covers in terms of the hierarchy between type and image."
Typography
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
2 months ago

Velocity: Fast & Beautifully Furious - I Love Typography Ltd

Velocity is a compact, forward-leaning all-caps sans serif with rounded curves, multiple stylistic sets, and duplexed weights optimized for bold branding and large display use.
fromI Love Typography Ltd
2 months ago

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Cattivo - I Love Typography Ltd

Infused with history, the slab cannot help but suggest the old West's frontier clichés, for such ephemera as classic wanted posters, political broadsides, cautionary warning signs, and more generic commercial applications. Cattivo is a brand-new 18-font family that, when used in any weight and size, cuts through nostalgic predictability and provides a welcome alternative to such popular Egyptian-style slab serifs as Stymie and Memphis.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
4 months ago

ILT Blog Redesign - I Love Typography Ltd

The main problem with the existing homepage was that, besides the most recent posts, other content, once it aged and 'fell off' the front page, was then difficult to discover. The new design makes more use of available screen 'real estate', is visually much richer, and reorganizes 18 years of posts, so that even older long-forgotten posts are more easily found.
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