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Type Face: Monumental Figurative Sculptures Made of Text

Giant human figures made of jumbled steel letters loom over public spaces in a series of monumental typographic sculptures by artist Jaume Plensa. The contemplative seated figures seem to watch ...

Architecturally Literate: 13 Built Alphabets Spell Design

For those in love with letters, typography is - or should be - virtually everywhere, from furniture to office buildings. These 13 designs indulge typophiles with three-dimensional typefaces in ...

Metal Heads: Sculptures Made of Movable Type & Hardware

Sculptor Dale Dunning has been casting the same genderless face in all different kinds of materials for over a decade - placing it on its side, cutting it into ribbons and surrounding it with ...

Write Black but Go Green: Save Pens Using Garamond Font

Can we save a significant amount of ink simply by choosing one particular font over another? In an interesting experiment, artist Matt Robinson tested various typefaces to see how economical they ...

Twisted Typography: Barbed-Wire to Cigarette-Pack Fonts

The most the layman knows about Typography tends to be that Comic Sans is inappropriate for business correspondence and that Times New Roman works just fine. Beyond the most basic fonts in your ...

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