Hamilton Type Museum Likely to Be Evicted!


Just a few days after the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum‘s annual Wayzgoose type conference in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Bill Moran, the museum’s artistic director, announced that the invaluable repository of typographic history will likely be evicted from an original Hamilton building that dates to 1926. “We don’t know where we’re moving to and we don’t know how we’re going to get there,” he told me.

Read more at Imprint: Help Save the Hamilton Wood Type Museum

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Type Threads


Type meets thread in a new trend for hand-stitched typography

Handmade typography with paper and set design is becoming popular amongst creatives working in all fields for the last few years. Few, however, have taken to stitching. One such illustrator who experiments with type and thread is Peter Crawley, his January piece being a good example of what’s possible with the often frowned upon medium.

Another illustrator experimenting with thread and craft is Australian Dominique Falla. Her work for Wired where she illustrated the logo using nails and string being particularly cool.

Read more: The hottest typography design trends for 2012 http://www.dnjg.be/wordpress/2012/08/27/the-hottest-typography-design-trends-for-2012/#ixzz2C75iK3h3

The 100 Best Typefaces of All Time


Where do your favorite fonts rank? Did they make the list?