Jim Ford’s latest type family takes retro-futuristic poster lettering of the twentieth century and recreates its various styles along a streamlined typographic continuum. It’s an odd concept, retro-futurism. Its depictions of the future show us an idyllic age of scientific achievement, clean and abundant energy, adventure, leisure, and general tidiness. Using the years as a reference, Posterama’s styles represent major art movements that defined letter shapes, Arts & Crafts, Bauhaus, and Art Deco to name a few.

David Sudweeks interviews type designer and developer Frank Grießhammer, where he discusses his introduction to type design and his interests in code and type.

Good editorial design makes communication easy. Only the best stories, with compelling illustration and photography, and outstanding typographic schemes can power the editorial staff through to their next publications.

To conclude my Adventures in Space series, I would like to take a look at the different kinds of spaces. While Spacing, Kerning, and Tracking focused on the space between characters, this last episode examines the spaces outside the words. There is quite a bit more than just the word space – if you select the Insert White Space fly-out from the Type menu in Adobe® InDesign® for example, you discover a dozen different space characters. And when you are designing for the web, Unicode provides several different space entities for online use. Using the right kind of space can make your life easier, and it will definitely help you improve your typesetting.

Like weddings themselves, wedding invitation design is an exercise in cultural tradition. This brief designers’ guide will cover American norms, applicable also to much of the English-speaking world.