Your Life Work Series (1947)

Just dis­covered this won­der­ful little gem from a post on TYPO-L (ATypI). It’s from a series of films pro­duced by Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. Enjoy!

Thus press work is par­tic­u­larly fitted for young men who like to work with machines…. Work con­di­tions are gen­er­ally sat­is­fact­ory, as are hous­ing, hygiene, and hours.

Fancy a change of career?

Print­ing — your life work series (1947) — Vimeo.

Via archive.org

FontFont Cata­logue Online

Just a quick one: not sure how I missed this the first time around, but the entire Font­Font cata­logue can be viewed online over at issuu. You can flip through the 2009 cata­logue, zoom in for higher res­ol­u­tion, and even down­load it (though you’ll need to sign up).

In addi­tion to that, this page, has a list of every single Font­Font PDF spe­ci­men — bril­liant! There are still some foundries that do not offer PDF spe­ci­mens. I’d never, ever pur­chase a typeface without first seeing it — un-​metaphorically — on paper.

And a pretty cool little movie for FF Trixie:

And then there’s the Trixie microsite:

Trixie isn’t new, but it’s now avail­able in all its Open­Type glory. And, if you’re not all trix­ied out by now, there’s a desktop wall­pa­per. Enjoy!

Thanks to Chris­toph Koe­ber­lin for the masthead, which is set in Trixie HD OT Light.

Ramping it up

First, thanks to every­one who took part in the My favour­ite let­ters com­pet­i­tion. Some great entries, and two great prizes for the win­ners. See the end of the post to dis­cover who the lucky ones are. If you didn’t win, then rest assured there will be many more give-​aways and prizes in future, so stay tuned.

Let’s start with some­thing dif­fer­ent, a typography-​inspired Word­Press theme from hellyeahdude:

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Sexy Type

Last week I fea­tured Seb’s Migh­tier poster, one of which I pur­chased. The print qual­ity really is quite excep­tional. I don’t even have mine framed, yet I’m itch­ing to buy another. Here are the latest from Seb Lester:

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Minister for Typography

Welcome to The week in type*, the new name for Sunday Type. I know many of you have gotten used to the name, but for those new to the site, the former nomen­clature could be a tad con­fus­ing. Thanks to the more than 100 of you who com­men­ted on the pre­vi­ous post, and for your votes on the Word­press show­case. Makes me all the more determ­ined to really step things up. The book win­ners are at the end of this post. Let’s begin with some love,

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Red or Blue?

Good luck to US voters. You might also want to vote for iLT:

Oh, and as I’m in a par­tic­u­larly good mood, and I’d like to say thank you for your sup­port of iLT, there’s a copy of Felici’s The Com­plete Manual of Typo­graphy, and a copy of Bringhurst’s The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style up for grabs.* Just tell me—well everyone—why you would vote for iLT. I’ll pick the winner from the com­ments before the next post.

See you all for the next post, and some more inspir­ing type.

* Two win­ners; one book per winner. If you already have the book, then choose another of approx equal value.

Thanks to Douglas for nom­in­at­ing iLT.
See also the Font­Feed’s gentle reminder.

The Competition

As a way of redu­cing the length of Sunday Type, I’ve decided to move the gen­eral links—bits and pieces—to a sep­ar­ate page. I don’t think I’ll show these posts on the home page, but by sli­cing Sunday Type in two (from time to time), I hope that it will be a little easier to digest. I’m also look­ing at ways to better tag the con­tent within Sunday Type; so that, for example, if you just want to see typo­graphic posters, then a little WP wiz­ardry will dig out and dis­play only poster-​related con­tent from all the Sunday Type posts, and serve them up as a single custom post. Not sure that that will make any sense. Anyway, here we go (com­pet­i­tion details at the end!):

These are the links for Sunday Type: tomate type:

Notes on the Frank­furt book fair—the Font­Feed:

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No Under­wear Mon Amour

If you missed the inter­view with Ludwig Übele, then be sure to check it out. For excerpts of all the inter­views on iLT, then simply click right…here. Until I can wrap my work sched­ule around iLT, then Sunday Type will still be pub­lished once weekly, but that could be any day. In fact, I can’t remem­ber the last time I actu­ally posted Sunday Type on a Sunday. Well, that’s quite enough pre­amble; on with the show.

First up is some­thing new from one of my favour­ite young design­ers, Gemma O’Brien:

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by Rouslan Valiulin

After study­ing graphic design in Ger­many and Fin­land, Ludwig Übele worked for a number of years in the industry until he decided to con­cen­trate on type design, and set off for the Neth­er­lands. Since gradu­at­ing from KABK’s Type­Media course in 2007, Ludwig works freel­ance as a pro­fes­sional type designer—designing type for both text and display—and works on brand development.

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The Heart of the Matter

Thanks to the more than 300 people who sent in their answers to the identify the s’s com­pet­i­tion. The winner is announced below. Another big thank you to all those who reg­u­larly send in links and nice emails. Today’s is a big one, so buckle up and enjoy the ride.

First up is a new lim­ited edi­tion A2 poster from Seb Lester.

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