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Cem Eskinazi on “Aggressive Serifs,” Psychedelic Shapes + Bringing Some Softness Back Into the Visual Landscape

On first sight, Mantar is a jovial typeface family. High-contrast, serif-forward, wide-faced, with details that seem to jump from letter to letter. I’m struck by the exaggerated serifs and tightness in the capital M, W and R. The numbers, particularly the 2 and 3, swirl into themselves in a playful game with the punctuation.  A newly-released font family distributed by...

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Oktoberfest 1984–2019

We are pleased to announce that the Photo book Oktoberfest 1984–2019 by Volker Derlath is now online at Kickstarter! Take the chance and support the project now by pre-ordering. For 35 years, Munich photographer Volker Derlath has hardly missed a “Wiesn” day. With his camera, right in the middle of the action, he is capturing intimate moments, touching scenes, moments...

¿Albóndiga, sello o gusano? La curiosa historia del logo de la NASA y de un símbolo que dividió la era espacial

Para conocer la historia del primer logo de la NASA tenemos que remontarnos hasta finales de los años 50, cuando el National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) decide transformarse en una agencia global que abarca tanto el espacio como la aeronáutica. Así, en 1958 nacía la National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). El logotipo original de NACA, databa de 1915,...