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via nonstopnerds.com
Maybe some of you use Google Analytics to take a look at your website visitors and visits, pageviews per visitor and so on … from time to time. Although it’s a nice function for webmasters or curious people in general, I think it’s not nice to log in to your google account every time you’d like to check the stats. So why don’t have it all in an small application on your desktop? Open source, no matter if mac or win? So I started a search to find a tool …
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HypeforType mentioned my Helvetica minisite on Posterous, ‘LoveHelvetica’. Thanks for the shout-out. Visit LoveHelvetica.
via idsgn.org
There is a common misbelief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system. In this ‘Design discussions’, we talk to the author who has uncovered the truth (maybe) behind the story.
Gorgeous… New Slab’s are popping up weekly it would seem, these new styles that are being designed, with delightful curves and soft touches really appeal to me.
via swisslegacy.com
The exhibition, “Helvetica. A New Typeface?”, organised and produced by DHUB in collaboration with the Fundació Comunicació Gràfica (FGC), spotlights the typeface created by the Swiss typographer, Max Miedinger, in 1957.
The exhibition includes a timeline of Helvetica’s consolidation over the last fifty years with a view to understanding its role in the history of design, as well as its antecedents and its subsequent influence.
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via hollandfonts.com
Tijd alphabet is extracted from 26 illustrations made by Max Kisman for Vouwblad 7: Klein Woordenboek over Tijd (Folding sheet 7: Small Dictionairy about Time), issued in fall 2009 by Lenoirschuring Printers in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.
Peaking out of my jacket is Betty, a delightful Italian Greyhound, no bigger than a cat. This was a chilly day, so what better than to take refuge in my thick jacket.
