Words to live by

-from "The Power of Side Projects and Eccentric Aunts" by Tina Roth Eisenberg, aka @swissmiss.

Weekend book find

Found this lovely typographic artefact by James Craig this past weekend in Ottawa.
(You had me at Helvetica.)

Vignelli-isms

Program covers designed by Pentagram’s Michael Bierut, using quotes by Massimo Vignelli.

Inspiring!

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Child at heart

A few wonderful (and discounted) treasures found at BMV Books yesterday:

Type for men

Helvetica ad, circa 1966

Alphadeath!

Delightfully homicidal typographic illustrations by Philip Tseng

"Typocalypse"

Amazing.

CRazy for type

I had been wanting some woodcut letters for a long time. But ever since I took the snap & tumble letterpress curiosity workshop, I've loved letterpress letters even more. These beauties arrived on my doorstep yesterday from an Etsy seller in the USA. Merry Christmas to me!

Packaging lust

Yesterday, I experienced Crate & Barrel for the first time.

I think their Helvetica-based identity (with the exception of the capital 'C') may be even closer to perfection that the No Name brand.

(Thanks to the kind salesperson who tolerated my insanity and gave me a variety of different sized gift boxes... for free! You made my day!)

Keep it simple

Recent No Name product rebranding by the Loblaws family of companies returns to their 1978 roots:

Lovingly called "Helvetica Brand" in our household... I can't get enough!

The ongoing battle...

Settling the differences between Arial and Helvetica

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My *type* of fashion

Helvetica tshirts at American Apparel

When film meets typography

Gary Hustwit's documentary Helvetica