Thumbing through his local Swedish newspaper, Göteborg resident Mattias Akerberg found himself troubled by a full-page advertisement for Ikea. It wasn’t that the Grevbäck bookcases looked any less sturdy, or that the Bibbi Snur duvet covers were any less colorful, or even that the names given to each of the company’s 9,500 products were any less whimsical. No, what bothered Akerberg was the typeface. “I thought that something had gone terribly wrong, but when I Twittered about it, people at their ad agency told me that this was actually the new Ikea font,” he recalls. “I could hardly believe it was true.”

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Read the article After School Special: Advice for Emerging Designers on AIGA’s website.

from rianna williams’ site. “Brown is a small confectioner’s shop in Bogotá that’s always used kraft board boxes to pack their products. They wanted a new corporate image and a simple and low budget solution to identify what’s inside them. Bogotá, Colombia design firm Lip Ltda came up with a series of cards and stamps that carry the information simply and succinctly.”

we love typography is a site for those who love typography. YES.

An excellent book on typography by Ellen Lupton. Accessible to everyone interested in the visual word. Visit the companion site.

From LettError.com: “This is the very first magazine ever made by Just and me, summer 1989. Reproduced on MetaDesign’s 3 color copier, we made a couple of booklets to hand out at the ATypI conference in Paris. Copies are very rare, but here’s one in full resolution. Despite the silly jokes, I still think the points are valid. Note Just’s corrections in pencil. I can’t remember whether we actually made the changes. According to the number and signatures on the back, this really is number 000.”

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From LettError (Netherlands)

The new Graphic Design Museum in Breda opened. One of the displays shows Beowolf and BeoSans in action in a great interactive installation developed by Lust with an interview and some TypoMan movies.

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Forms, Folds & Sizes – Poppy Evans (Rockport)
The Information Design Handbook – Jenn & Ken Visocky-O’Grady (HOW Books)
Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography – Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs (Allworth)
A Typographic Workbook – Kate Clair (Wiley)
The Elements of Typographic Style – Robert Bringhurst (Hartley & Marks)
The Education of a Graphic Designer – Steven Heller (Allworth)

by Susan H. Delagrange. Find the full article here.

This webtext for Inventio describes my response to Kairos’ invitation for “re-envisioning,” which I took as a provocation, a challenge to literally re-see and reimagine the visual and conceptual design of my argument. By highlighting some of the complexities of the design and redesign of one digital project, I hope to demonstrate the complicated relationship between seeing and design in envisioning and enacting argument, to make more visible the rhetorical and intellectual work of scholarship in digital media, and to argue by example for publishing scholarship about new media in new media.

• When the interface of an interactive, digital, scholarly article is designed as an integral part of the article’s argument, what are the rhetorical, conceptual, and technical challenges of re-designing the project to better enact that argument?
• How can digital space be redesigned so that the experience of the user more closely corresponds to the meaning-making tropes of the argument?
• What are the affordances and constraints of learning and writing underlying code when designing the visual and conceptual interface of a multimedia project?

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