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Lucky, Organic, Flexible, Speedy, Totally Crazy: What It’s Like to Run an Independent Type Foundry

There are more than 20,000 fonts available on Adobe Fonts, well over 10,000 from the Monotype library, and another 915 on Google. Faced with this dizzying number of options—not to mention the marketing might and visibility of these giant corporations—why would anyone pursue a career as an independent foundry, building small libraries of retail typefaces that can take years to...

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Classike

Get to know the Art Déco inspired typeface Classike by Emtype Foundry which adds an exclusive touch to your design. Classike is a high contrast squarish display typeface. Inspired by the Art Déco period from a modern perspective. Refined and elegant yet with a mechanical vibe, it is ideal for pairing with any functional font, it works especially well with...

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The unsettling beauty of Bill Brandt’s photographs

A new Bill Brandt exhibition at Foam museum in Amsterdam asserts that the sinister is “an ever-present element of Brandt’s photographs”, from his photojournalism through to the more artistically driven endeavours later in his career. Curated by Fundación Mapfre’s Ramón Esparza in collaboration with Foam, The Beautiful and the Sinister features many of Brandt’s works taken in London… Source...