The incredible aesthetic and design choices of retro arcade games is undeniable. Chunky, chiptune soundtracks and pixelated blocky letters are indelibly linked to the video games of the ’70s, ’80s, and beyond. For all you…
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The incredible aesthetic and design choices of retro arcade games is undeniable. Chunky, chiptune soundtracks and pixelated blocky letters are indelibly linked to the video games of the ’70s, ’80s, and beyond. For all you…
Long gone are the days of having to pass document files back and forth over email or thumb drives because Google Docs completely revolutionized the word processor. Google Docs makes collaboration easy, is free to…
Derived from the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design and compiled by editors from Phaidon, Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter covers five hundred of the most influential designs produced over more than half a millennium. From…
We’re suckers for great packaging. Toss a product in something with a cool font and some nice colors and you’ll have our attention. And while some items on the shelves these days make us stop…
We’ve been fans of Andrew Capener’s typography-focused versions of Scrabble since he started making them. (Here’s the first version, and here’s the second version.) If we have one complaint, however, it’s that the games were really made…
Slanted is a magazine and blog based in Germany that has been publishing typography and design related news for over a decade. In the past few years, they’ve poured their extensive typography knowledge and network…
Aperture. Bilateral Serifs. Tittle. Kerning. Crossbar. Teardrop Terminal. Beak. Ligature. Quaint. There are a lot of typography terms that probably don’t make sense if you didn’t go to design school, but Pop Chart Lab is…
As one of the world’s foremost practitioners of letterpress typographic design and printmaking, Alan Kitching was the perfect man to take a font collection and turn it into an awe-inspiring compendium of typography porn. Kitching,…