From Around the Design-o-Sphere X
Arm? Stroke? Crotch? Get your mind out of the gutter and over to Dynamic Graphics magazine, where author Cassie Hart has put together a type terminology glossary. This is just one of many articles from Dynamic Graphics magazine's Type issue.
BusinessWeek Business Editor Lauren Young interviews Bureau of Printing & Engraving designer Jack Ruther on symbolic, aesthetic, and security considerations of the newly redesigned $10 bill that will go into circulation in early 2006. Apparently Americans really don't like change -- in every sense of the word.
John McWade explores the possibilities of logo creation using sets of linked letters in his graphics.com article, "Strategies for Letter-based Logo Design." Article also contains some nice examples of simple yet interesting type treatments.
LaTimes.com reports that Beverly Hills city officials want to know why they aren't making more money off of their 1930s Warner Bros. Studios designed "iconic" city emblem. John Kuraoka, freelance advertising copywriter, seems to think that the brown shield with gold type is simply weak design.
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