House Industries “Type as Object” Opening & Pop-Up Shop at the TDC (photos)

typographic illustration for The New York Times Magazine
by Matt W. Moore

The House Industries opening at TDC NY will also include the opportunity to purchase one of two new limited edition Serigraphs.

Just discovered the Daily Drop Cap, a fun (and beautiful) new tumblr site by illustrator and typographer Jessica Hische.

ninakix:

Letterage by Marin van Uhm: Twenty-six letters of the alphabet constructed from seventeen overlapping geometric shapes.

(via Colt + Rane, via bauldoff)

great typographic images being uploaded to the TypeCon 2009 pool on flickr
(above image via splorp)

Letter-Box-Kite by Andrew Byrom
(discovered via swissmiss via @veerupdate)

Oded Ezer: The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy book (via design:related)

a little late in discovering this April Fool’s Day joke…

marianoviola:

Tache a “fusion diagraph” (via Graphic Definer)

[…] Research and predictive modeling conducted at Carnegie Mellon University over the past year has concluded that because the combination “th” occurs more than any other in the latin alphabet (primarily in English), the reduction of it’s double-character footprint to a single-character footprint, could save a staggering 1.21 billion newspaper pages per year in the US alone. This would translate to a 3% decrease in the cutting of domestic forests to produce that new newsprint in the same 12 month period. […]

“Tonight, in a decisive move stateside, Burberry will open the doors of its Americas headquarters at No.444, on New York’s Madison Avenue…”

Burberry light up the NY skyline (via  Wallpaper.com)

a student’s reinterpretation of the Persian rug, Occidorient
by François Mangeo (discovered via Dezeen)

“Animalphabet” Art Print by Sigrid Martinez (via OMG Posters!)

Typography master soaps
(via soapylovedeb on flickr)

Neutraface Slab Blocks from House Industries
(discovered via swissmiss) 

laureola:

By Alan Fletcher (designer)