Idea Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Kiyonori Muroga and contributing editor Ian Lynam will be giving a lecture and week-long workshop at CalArts. The lecture will be on Monday April 8th at 6pm. The lecture will be open to the public.

We just released Plural, a new family of 20 typefaces.

Plural is a contemporary, futuristic sans serif that is eminently readable on-screen and in print. It appears to be monolinear due to its hybrid geometric and humanist construction, but actually swells slightly at the curves and tapers slightly at the terminals for pronounced readability.

It features a full Central and Eastern European character set and is offered in five weights: light, regular, medium, semibold and bold. These are offset by matching italic cuts of each weight to give designers more variation.

The typeface also includes five weights of a retro-futuristic display face called Plural Display that bring in more idiosyncratic characters for display setting- a NASA-inspired space age “A”, a decorative “double-V” treatment for the “W”, a flared “M” and a whole lot more. Italic versions of Plural Display are also featured.

Plural is available from MyFonts and YouWorkForThem.

Also interesting.

Super interesting work!

Wordshape now has a number of new issues of Idea Magazine up for sale internationally.

The newest issue, #356, features the definitive overview of the work of American type designer and sign painter John Downer, an amazing collection of retro Japanese typography and a critical overview of Neville Brody’s FUSE project.

Tons of amazing stuff over the past few issues of Idea - a history of early Modern Japanese book design, Japanese branding and focused features on international small press initiatives.

Our friends Janice and Carolin Harris produced this lovely lil catalog. Please get yours.

For curious travelers and locals alike. Arts and culture travel guide for the city of Portland, featuring conversational interviews with ten intriguing characters and contributors, alongside beautiful pictorials and 72 personalized recommendations.  Discover and/or re-discover what makes Portland one of the most interesting, vibrant and diverse cities in the world.

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Don’t miss the interview Jeff Selis did with my dear friend Tinker Hatfield

We have a new type release: The Stebl series of types is a handy micro-family for use for typesetting, display work, branding and packaging work. Stebl Grotesk is a grotesk typeface and matching italic inspired by the classic grotesk designs of the Stephenson Blake Type foundry. Stebl Slab is a complementary slab serif based on the idea that traditional slab serif types are based on a grotesk skeleton more than a traditional serifed framework.

The entire family includes character support for Western, Central and Eastern European languages. Stebl Grotesk and Stebl Grotesk Italic include a range of handy, idiosyncratic semi-swash caps that will lend your design work a distinctive flair.

The Stebl micro-family is available now from YouWorkForThem.

Wordshape has two new font families out now: Okojo Display and Entity.

Okojo Display is the display version of our popular Wordshape font Okojo, featuring an enlarged x-height and rounded corners for smooth reading on tablets and as webfonts.

Okojo Display is comprised of light, light italic, regular, italic, bold and bold italic versions of both a sans serif and slab serif design.

Entity is a typeface designed for tablet and webfont use, as well - a technical appearance similar to Allumi, Klavika, Sancoale and the whole current crop of techy fonts, though with enough of its own personality, as well.

Entity is available in light, light italic, normal, italic, bold and bold italic weights. It is available from YouWorkForThem.

The connection between the early Bauhaus and faux-Zoroastrian American hucksterism explained and explained well!

Catalog available now!

Super Guy Mike Perry is Start Kicking over here.