Posts Categorized: Type Design / Typography

Displaying the lexicon of a nation

We recently came across Brad Borevitz’ State of the Union (SOTU), a remarkable web project that allows users to explore changes in use of the English language in the United States over the past 200 years, using the State of the Union as a window. As the site’s author puts it, “SOTU allows you to… Read more »


Unifying content and presentation with type

Inspired by Teal Triggs’ book Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation, I decided to explore the use of calligrams. By definition, a calligram is formed when a group of words are arranged to visually represent its content. Calligrams are considered to be a form of concrete poetry, also called visual poetry. The images created by… Read more »