Road Research Society digitises hand-drawn Hong Kong road signs for Prison Gothic font

Non-profit organisation Road Research Society has digitalised the text from old road signs in Hong Kong to create a font called Prison Gothic as part of its effort to preserve «visual cultural memories of the city». The font, which so far includes 8,000 commonly used Chinese characters, is modelled on 600 characters collected from road signs on the city’s streets....

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Open Manifesto

Formist Editions is thrilled to release this curated anthology Open Manifesto of design writing, collected by Kevin Finn. “It’s opinionated, it’s inspiring, it’s illuminating and it’s cheeky. Open Manifesto is a great, necessary read and an important advocate for the role and potential design can provide in our culture, and the world.” — Debbie Millman, host, Design Matters In 2003,...

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Harriet Noble tackles health and human nature in her sunny illustrations

Harriet Noble’s illustration practice is rooted, like most creatives, in those formative childhood years. Her use of paper in particular stems from her days creating shoebox buildings and furniture out of paper and card, which have translated into her leggy characters and layered scenes that are often constructed from paper today. Noble came from a fine art background but found...