Typography

Civil War songs

I've been re-watching Ken Burns' Civil War series on Netflix this last couple of days and saw these lovely examples of type which appear to be the covers of sheet music. Sorry if the image quality isn't great, these are just screenshots taken on the iPad, you can still make

Typography

Flourish

A really nice short film showing the progress of an illustration/typography project.

Short Film

Sony Music Timeline

Via Greg Wood

Typography

Images and words

This morning I watched an interesting documentary on Abraham Lincoln and some of the lesser publicised sides of his rise to the presidency (lesser publicised at least to a bloke from Yorkshire). During the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Lincoln spoke against accusations of being an abolitionist which was quite surprising

Web Design

The Future of Web Typography

Typography on the web is in it's infancy, until now our options for typefaces have been very limited to say the least. With @font-face picking up a lot of speed I can't help thinking we run the risk of being like kids in a sweet shop and picking every bit