Robert Holmkvist design Staples’ 2007 Annual Report with some great experiental goodies including a metal binding holding the pages together, tabs for sections, and a letter from the president in an envelope. This must have cost a pretty penny and it doesn’t seem to represent the Staples brand very accurately. I found this at this new blog: TypeNeu
Staples Annual Report
Experimental Jetset
Experimental Jetset have made a great contribution to design. They make the importance on creatively addressing what you do with your typography over the importance of which typeface you choose.
Also… check out their site Experimental Jetset
New Free Font
“Anzianoâ„¢ SC (Fountain)Stefan Hattenbach’s Anzianoâ„¢ deserves a spot on the Best of ’07 list as one of the few new designs that hearkens back to classic book typography. Thanks to our friends at Fountain, you can try the Small Caps for free, and when you fall in love with the typeface, come back for the rest.” –Font Shop
Anzianoâ„¢ SC provides a great alternative to the infamous Trajan for a typeface has a roman feel to it. With its tuscan serifs and beautiful positive/negative space relationships, this typeface is a great addition to my library.
Martin Majoor
Martin Majoor tells the story of his reasoning in the design of Scala and its partner Scala Sans.
Martin Majoor: Type Design Philosophy
The Em
Font Bureau gives a nice explanation of the “em” at Font Bureau: Type 101
How to Spell the Alphabet
Tauba Auerbach’s book How to Spell the Alphabet is one of the top of my wishlist. She approaches language in clever executions that are extremely entertaining and great to look at. The above image is the alphabet done in semaphore (flag positions represent letters). Not to mention her amazing paintings of letterforms.