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Creative Review - Troika deconstruct the V&A

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V & A signage interpreted by Troika.

Jon Contino, Alphastructaesthetitologist

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Jon Contino, Alphastructaesthetitologist

Born and raised in New York, Jon Contino is a designer, illustrator, and typographer. He is co-founder and creative director of design studio Onetwentysix and menswear brand CXXVI Clothing Company. Steadily developing a reputation for his hand-lettering, Jon continues to blur the boundaries between traditional and digital design methods. He is currently accepting new commissions.

Hi. My name is Mico. I am a designer. I like music and typography.

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- A weekly dose of beautifully designed song quotes

Digitized Handwriting

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Remember when you used to know all your friends' handwritings? The idea is to take the personalization of handwritten letters and combine it with the ease of email. I haven't tried this yet, but it looks pretty easy to turn your handwriting into a digital font. The video does a good job showing how it's done.

Google Font Directory

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The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site. Please also visit our quick start guide and FAQ page. For more help and suggestions, use our moderator page.

Typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention is has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency.

SVA Summer Program in Italy

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A Master's Workshop in communications (focusing on typography) that takes place in Venice and Rome certainly doesn't seem like a bad way to spend a couple of weeks.

Pentagram - What type are you?

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Pentagram - What type are you?

2010: The Year of the Ampersand

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After seeing the daily drop cap I was pointed to the daily ampersand. Now illustrator extraordinaire Kyle Jones has released HaƤfe & Haph's ampersand pack, displayed in a gorgeous site layout.

Free Typography

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They're not all great, but there are some gems here.