Salford Type Foundry

Recently launched online repository of experimental fonts. Managed by graphic design students at University of Salford.

USA Today logo

The new USA Today logo is simple, bold and versatile. I love it.

(via CR and WO)

Shotclock

Shotclock is designed to get people outside, on time.

(via Tom Chung)

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

A new documentary about Charles and Ray Eames — widely regarded as America’s most influential designers — is currently showing in museums and arts cinemas across the US.

Watch the trailer

How ink is made

This is a seductive short about the making of process printing ink. Wonderful.

(via kottke)

Indoor table by Manoteca

Lovely one-off handmade table by Manoteca of Italy.

(via svjetlankocijan and Simon)

D&AD Graduate Academy

The Graduate Academy will teach graduates about their role in a creative organisation. It will show them how to bring their education-based skills into a work setting, how to view their work objectively and how to contribute as a member of a team.

100 final-year students and recent graduates will be attending the D&AD Graduate Academy this August. The top 50 will then be selected to go forward for a 3 month *paid* placement at a creative organisation in the UK. Fabulous opportunity for new creative professionals.

Design events in June

(I've attended OFFF, New Designers and RCA degree shows in the past — I can't recommend each event highly enough.)

Hovering Art Directors

If you happen to work in a design studio with lingering chin-strokers and over-the-shoulder finger pointers, this Tumblr collection will make you smile (two of my favourites below). Designers dislike feeling left out, don't they?

(via @dandad)

I Read Where I Am

The book launch last week of I Read Where I Am is accompanied by this wonderful collection of critical notes and observations about how we daily consume and produce our information.

We are street readers. Look at us, info junk dealers, as we zip through the telephone, scan a newspaper we’ve just read, leaf through a magazine. We are the new generation of readers. Not dumber, just faster. We whiz through three lives at once. Let’s be honest: reading has become a different experience. Reading has become looking and vice versa. Information has become tactile. You don’t have to remember anything, you just look it up.

A diverse bunch of authors, journalists, artists, designers and philosophers discuss how new information formats, technologies and platforms are transforming both reading behaviour — into a continuous process of scanning, assessing, sharing, learning, noting, talking, uploading, adding, watching, writing, reacting, et cetera — and the reader’s experience of the written word.

(Feel free to read, browse, scan, skim, bookmark or share at your leisure! Via ellenLupton and Graphic Design Museum)

Attik design studio turns 25

Congratulations to Attik. The global creative agency yesterday celebrated quarter of a century in business. This is a milestone achievement for the design studio which launched from an attic bedroom in 1986 with a £2,000 grant from The Prince's Trust Business Programme. Happy Birthday!

(Check out Where We Came From)

Creative Characters

Creative Characters is the MyFonts newsletter dedicated to people behind the fonts. Each conversation is a terrific insight into the background, creative inspiration, and (at times) obsessive working practice of a leading type designer. Go check Patrick Griffin, Jonathan Barnbrook and Laura Worthington.