Christian Boer designed the typeface Dyslexie because “reading printed text is so fluid and transparent for most people that it’s hard to imagine it feeling any other way. Maybe that’s why it took a dyslexic designer to create a typeface that optimizes the reading experience for people who suffer from that condition.” This link has a description of the typeface and an interesting video about how to make type more readable, even for non-dyslexics.
In this 2010 Penguin ad campaign Travel with Words, Meet the World below uses typography to evoke various places in the world. Originally found here. See the other posts about Penguin ads here.
As my husband and I continue our (seemingly never-ending) house renovation, there are a few really fun decisions to make — as opposed to the current sometimes mind numbing task of painting all the outside window trim. The most recent fun one was selecting house numbers — it was obvious where to put them, but what font to use? I knew I wanted a sans serif font, and quickly found Neutra. I especially like how these sit away from the house. I guess I’m still a California girl or just addicted to mid-century style, as the font was designed by architect Richard Neutra, who “in California, … became celebrated for rigorously geometric but airy structures that symbolized a West Coast variation on the mid-century modern residence.” (You can see the entire font here.)
 
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While looking for something on Amazon, I ran across a typography book for children that was new to me: The Serif Fairy by Rene Siegfried.
All the inhabitants and objects in the book are made from glyphs from four fonts: Futura, Garamond, Shelly Script and Zentenar Fraktur. You can see pictures from the book here |
Want to smell like paper? I know I certainly don’t want to smell like an old book. But Karl Lagerfeld, the Chanel designer, does. And according to this article in the Independent
Lagerfeld — who is known for his love of books and says he stocks more than 300,000 of them in his famous personal library — is already working on the fragrance… (The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)) reports that Paper Passion, which will be sold inside a hardcover book with the pages hollowed out to hold the flacon, will be developed with Berlin perfumer Geza Schön, who told the paper that “the fragrance will have a fatty note,” probably along the lines of linoleum, and that he was taking his inspiration from the smell of printed and unprinted paper.
Okay, since when did linoleum smell like paper?? But the article also mentions several other fragrances that are “inspired” by paper (who knew?) including Paperback with this description
A dusty old copy of a Barbara Pym novel did it for us. This Demeter scent is sweet and just a touch musty, a lot like Pym’s world come to think of it. Read her if you haven’t. Her writing is wonderful, if slightly musty, English satire from the 60s and 70s.
First seen here on Anderson Ink.
Penguin Books has had some great ad campaigns for their brand. The one below is part of There’s Life in a Book and was designed by Y&R Kuala Lampur, Malaysia in 2007. It features witty punctuation marks…
A book I’m more familiar with is