Through Lines 165

I’m just going to say watch this video. Simon lays it all out simply so pay attention.

• The Damaging Results of the Mandated Return to Office. Worse than we thought? Are you really surprised? Pass the popcorn.
• Louis Fishauf was a design crush back in the late 80s and early 90s. The memories came flooding back reading this Print interview with Fishauf by Steve Heller.
• Speaking of Canadian Design, the Northern Army Preservation Society has built a great site full of beautiful, Canadian-designed logo marks. Yes, it has the CBC logo.
• I’m going to need Blaze Type’s new book How to Design Fonts for one of my summer projects which was started many years ago and has been sitting dormant for a while.
• These miniature vintage computer mainframes and terminals from Miniatua are exquisite and amazing and strangely feel more like the future than the past.
• The hardest questions to answer. Perfect timing for this list for me personally.
• Emotion, not metrics. I know some folks who would greatly benefit from this.
• Jeff Jarvis’ new book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis is out. There’s a 25% off code if you buy direct from the publisher too which is very nice.
• Some handy tips and tricks for how to shoot macro photos on a Polaroid SX-70.
• The US Bicycle Route System. New to me. Handy too.
• Kiki or bouba?

Notable Type Releases

• Outgo from James Plattner is a high contrast display typeface with sharp flared terminals and straddles its historical tendencies with a modern, punchy flair.
• Right out of the gate, Paramount immediately feels like it belongs in the future. Charged with expressive detail, it feels serious and practical — and full of possibility.
• G-Type’s sturdy Jekyll & Hyde is an interesting idea with a neo-humanist and grotesque family packaged together as a variable set of split personalities.
• You want punk rock? I present to you: Hardcore by Shiva Nallaperumal and released through Public Type. Tough. Brutalist. DIY. Rock ‘n Roll.