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A ๐ is a ๐ and a PDF is a PDF. Each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but something particularly handy about PDFs is of course that they can travel through space much faster than a printed and bound pile of paper. French publisher One โญ๏ธ Star โญ๏ธ Press has made all their artist publications downloadable for free. Why not dive into their vast catalogue (from Marina Abramoviฤ to Heimo Zobernig) by downloading the publication Modern Typefaces by Parisian graphic design studio Vier5 aka. the Kings of Quirk.
โฌ๏ธ Download Modern Typefaces here
โฌ๏ธ Download everything else here
This is just in and it doesnโt really go well with that amazing โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ outside: The Letterform Archive in San Francisco has opened their online archive, which collects โ besides a lot of other type-related printed matter such as hundreds of midcentury type specimen โ the entirety of the legendary Emigre magazine. Browse all their issues from front to back, including some favorites like the 1994 issue by the infamous Sheffield-based Designers Republic or the 2001 issue by Amsterdam-based all-time heroes Experimental Jetset, looking fresh as always!
๐ญ Get lost in the Letterform Online Archive
So basically the website bored solution is similar to this site ๐ฅ๏ธ . It is a place to find ideas of things to learn, make & do while self-isolating ๐๏ธ. You can find challenges for a day, a week or even a month. Let's stay active in the world wide webz ๐ and you know: sharing is caring .
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Herb Lubalin (1918โ1981) was one of the most prolific ๐บ๐ธ American designers of the 20th century and many of his typefaces and logos are still widely in use today. After his death, he donated his vast collection of works of post-war graphic design to the Cooper Union in NY who transformed it into a generous and productive archive, the Lubalin Study Center. At this center you'll find, amongst many other things, huge file cabinets, and they let you open the Sandberg drawer, which is right on top of the Vignelli drawer, etc. Unfortunately we cannot go to NY right now, but we can browse their Flickr (yes!) albums of type specimens and other gems. Bravo!
๐ Browse here
Ever since 1996, after its initiation by poet Kenneth Goldsmith, UBU ๐ has been an growing resource for avant-garde material, such as visual, concrete and sound poetry. Pictured โฌ๏ธ is a Found Poem by the incredible Bern Porter.
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