Right, I’ll start with the controversial bit: Ikea has bid farewell to it’s iconic Futura typeface, which it has been using for over 50 years, and has replaced it with Verdana. Yes, that’s right, Verdana. Here’s a quick before and after for you:
Before and after from Please Copy Me
However, before we get in to why [...]
For anybody not familiar with the Penguin Great Ideas series, it’s a series which brings together some of the most influential texts ever made, from the minds of the worlds greatest thinkers; from Confucius and Plato, to Darwin, Rousseau, Woolf and Orwell, to name just a few. They’re the kind of books that you would [...]
I love this idea from Cardon Copy. Taking hand made flyers/posters found on the street, attached to lamposts, etc, and giving them the proper typographic and design treatment. In his own words:
“Cardon Copy takes the vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear-offs we have all seen in our neighbourhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and [...]