Best Serif: Calluna, by Jos Buivenga

Ooh I like it a lot. Looks quite nice set in a book as well.

Emigre and Gingko Press are proud to announce the publication of Emigre No.70: The Look Back Issue – Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design. The 512-page book covers the best of a quarter century of Emigre magazine – one of the most influential design publications ever.

Polar Employees (1966)

I want to redo my home office. I think this’ll do.

ImaginArt from recreat on Vimeo.

…is an installation that invites you to a new reading of some of the best albums published and illustrated in catalonia (ES). A comprehensive limitless reading, allowing you to know, moreover, the process of creating the book, other versions of the same story, play with literary precedents or invent new ones.

…is a game in two bands: The pace of reading the marks as you turn the page. The sound, images and voice run on us.

Very fascinating–the book as an interface.

San Francisco 1958 from Jeff Altman on Vimeo.

A relaxing way to start Friday. Nice soundtrack too.

Words such as “fantastical,” “enigmatic” and “breathtaking,” often accompany detailed shots of their coveted writing utensils, thus painting a portrait of these collector’s world.

A Time To Get finds some great photography from the pencil collector’s world.

It was an unusual design brief for ourselves, completely without visual cues and trading in cultural associations instead: “more Steve McQueen than Steven Seagal,” reads one note; “whiskey highball, not a martini” suggests another.

Works for me. Check out the new font Tungsten from Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

That ballistic nylon every single laptop bag manufacturer uses is getting kinda boring. Sure you can get whatever color combo your heart desires–big deal. Has no style. Surely this “attache” fits a MacBook Pro? Attache. Sounds so much better than messenger bag.