Reflecting on some of the design and strategy choices for Monocle.com, by the designer 1-year later.

Typography and typefaces, without a doubt, are two of the most fascinating aspects of visual design. Great designers can execute great designs with typefaces and nothing else, if required, and certainly if preferred. Design legends Saul Bass and Paula Scher have proved this many times over, and they comprise only a fraction of a very long list of luminaries who can wield type brilliantly.

Some are gorgeous. Some are cheesy.

Type discussion.

Exquisite handiwork from Coudal.

DevKick aim to assist web developers and designers in finding free high quality components for developing modern web sites.

Zanzibar is the second Filmotype font I’ve digitized. (The first was Glenlake.) At first glance, I didn’t think much of it. But when I started looking more closely, I realized I’d never seen anything quite like it and decided I needed to do it…

Commissioned photography packages in which “subjects are unaware of the exact moment they will be photographed and of the photographer’s identity. Instead, the subject is photographed completely naturally, living life as normal.”

Gorgeous drawings from spring training forty-six years ago, from the hand of the legendary, pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver.