Brand New has just posted a brief on the re-branding of the Capital One Logo. Why any financial company would want to use a big red boomerang to enhance their brand is beyond me. What is the message? It’s all coming back at you? Return to Sender? It worked for Nike, why not us? [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
The Pelicans Have Landed
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Things magazine has just posted an amazing chronological gallery of historical Pelican books covers, called The Pelican Project. Pelican was a branch of Penguin Books added in 1937 to “cover serious contemporary issues” [...]
Type Talks 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Our Calendar is set for the Spring & Summer and we’re already hard at work booking Speakers for the Fall of 2008. The following dates are all confirmed and finalized, so mark them down in your calendars lest you miss one of these insightful and fascinating talks.
As usual, they will all be held at the [...]
Michael Bierut: 79 short essays on design
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Michael Bierut, a partner at Pentagram and a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art published a book last May called Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design from Princeton Architectural Press. Unlike your standard book of Essays, each one of these is set in a different typeface: some picked at random, some [...]
Welcome to the new Type Club site
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
We have changed our site to reflect the needs of our community. Please check back frequently as we will be announcing some very interesting new talks in the coming months.
