The portuguese non-profit Clube dos Tipos, based in Coimbra, has published manual for the typographer to be used in the context of the tradicional typography shops. It consists in a glossary of essencial terms and describes the several phases and materials necessary for the practice.

But the really cool thing about this manual is that in can't buy it! It is part of an exchange plan described by its authors as "anti-capitalist, anarquista, photographic, quite subjective and uncontrolled". The the unwillingness to let go of its edition with the exception of a "conscious adoption", and the willingness to communicate with the ones that really desire it, led the publishers out of the sales circuit. So, the manual is to be exchanged with other typographical manuals, material relating to typography or other you'd like to propose.

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I had this book in my hands today - Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book. For a manual it presents itself without any condescending and actually gives good technical tips on all things publishing (layout, typography, cover design, etc) by presenting things as they are. What I mean is that it doesn't seem like one more "(insert matter) for dummies". It's quite cheap at bookdepository - at least a quarter cheapen than in the big surface book store I went to.
Its author, Ellen Lupton, is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She is the best-selling author of Thinking with Type, D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself, and Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips) - all published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Now, Miss Lupton has a wonderful website also entitled Thinking with Type which I wish I had known before I wandered into the thesis writing process. It is well worth a visit and a bookmark. GO!

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So you need a typeface is an alternative way on how to choose fonts (or just be inspired) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook. The list is (very loosely) based on the top 50 of the "Die 100 besten schriften".

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Logorama ganhou o Oscar para melhor curta animada.

O fantástico "atelier" francês de design H5 já fez a direcção artísticas para muitas marcas da moda, joelharia, perfumes; fizeram a edição gráfica do catálogo para Le Grand Paris; realizaram diversos videoclips para Alex Gopher, Goldfrap, Røyksopp, Massive Attack, etc; realizaram anúncios como este e o da Citroën; e recentemente realizaram uma curta que foi nomeada para os Oscares chamada Logorama.

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Há pessoas que se encontram a escrever há tempo de mais (guilty!) e outras que pensam em continuar. Que dizem a dar um toque minimal aos vossos escritos? Experimentem - de momento apenas está disponível a versão para Mac.

"As mere mortals, we also face the usual challenges of daily life: a multitude of windows open on our computer desktops, messages, emails, calls, meetings, and those crazy thoughts that pass through our minds.

Ommwriter emerged as an internal tool to help transport us away from the humdrum noise; allowing us to be at one with ourselves and our ideas. All said and done, after having created something so valuable, we figured that Ommwriter was just too good to keep to ourselves."

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Esta é a estreia de uma secção do Blog na qual irei apresentar "nuvens de palavras" de um determinado livro, cortesia do Google Books. A estreia acontece com "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" de Hunter S. Thompson.

This is the premier post of a new blog section entitled "Book Cloud" in which I will present "word clouds" of a given book, cortesy of Google Books. The first one is Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Enjoy!

airport American Dream Amphetamine psychosis asked Att'y bartender bastard beer Boulder City bucks California Highway Patrol Carson City casino Chivas Regal Circus-Circus cops crazy damn desert District Attorneys door drove Drug Conference ether eyes face felt finally Flamingo freak front fuck fucker goddamn Goddamnit Gonzo Journalism hands hash pipe head hell highway Horatio Alger hundred Jesus kill kind knew laughed looking Lucy marijuana mescaline Mister Duke move muttered Narcotics nervous never night nodded Paradise parking lot picked police probably pulled radio Raoul Duke Red Shark screamed seat seemed shit shouted shrugged smiled speed stared stopped straight stuff suddenly sure tacos talk tape there's thing thought told town Tropicana trying turn Vincent Black Shadow waiting Waitress watching Whale What's white Cadillac woman worry Yeah yelled

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A font Helvetica fez 50 anos. Para comemorar, Gary Hustwit realizou um documentário. Helvetica é uma longa metragem independente sobre tipografia, design gráfico e cultura visual global. Observa a proliferação de uma font (a qual celebrou o 50º aniversário em 2007) como parte de um diálogo maior sobre como as fontes afectam as nossas vidas. O filme é uma exploração dos espaços urbanos das grandes cidades e das fontes que os habitam, assim como uma discussão fluida com designers de renome sobre o seu trabalho, o processo criativo e as escolhas e estética por traz do uso de fontes.

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Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

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Para além de ser eesencial dos pontos de vista acima referidos, a banda sonora é brutal. Tem nomes como:
The Album Leaf
Battles
Caribou
Chicago Underground Quartet
El Ten Eleven
Four Tet
Kim Hiorthøy
Motohiro Nakashima
Sam Prekop

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