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Hand & Eye Letterpress

On researching letterpress studios in London I came across this specialist, established in 1985 by Phil Abel and joined by Nick Gill. The printers only use letterpress machines and have an impressive catalogue of work.

The range of stationary, above, is for the copy writers TotalContent and designed by NB:Studio who were seeking a wood letter look. It’s printed with fluorescent orange and under inked to achieve the textured effect.

Hand & Eye also create zinc plates for printing (bottom), created by a photo-etching process from a digital file.

(via typeworship)

Boycott Moleskine

http://antispec.com/hq/moleskine

Moleskine is crowdsourcing a new logo for their blog Moleskinerie. This was their response:

https://www.facebook.com/moleskine/posts/10150437031147049

“As far as the Moleskinerie logo contest is concerned, we would like to clarify that since the nature of Moleskinerie has always been participative, made up of passionate contributions and voluntary submissions, we decided to let the community participate again in creating the new logo of the blog.

We decided to collaborate with Designboom to do so, a leading online design magazine, which is well aware of how to run a contest of this kind.
If you had spent some time on the “Competitions” area of Designboom website, you certainly have seen that other Brands are running and previously decided to run similar contests, with the same regulation of our with great participation as well as amazing results.

That said, being a contest, there’s a final price for the winner, but all the submissions are free, as well you are free not to taking part to it.

Thanks to anyone who has decided, and will decide to take part to it.”

Design contests don’t provide amazing results. Stop spec work.

#The50 Things Every Creative Should Know

designcloud:

This website is definitely worth checking out. I, myself, as a creative find all of these points very good advice and should be acknowledged and followed by any creative person who wants to succeed.

Also, each piece of advice has been written within 140 characters and features a consistent hash-tag, making them easy to share across Twitter! 

xhotin: Kern Type, the kerning game: Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer’s solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck! My new favorite game, even though the score for my first attempt was lower than I’d hoped.

xhotin:

Kern Type, the kerning game:

Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer’s solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck!

My new favorite game, even though the score for my first attempt was lower than I’d hoped.

Kerning Tip:

Turn the text upside down, that way don’t read the word and instead look at the shapes the characters make and the space that’s created between them.