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My Type of Music: Gillian Welch, Jill Scott, Gomez, Thievery Corporation,...

I’d like to welcome to The FontFeed any new readers coming in from Daring Fireball’s link to last week’s Figuring Out Numerals two-parter. One of the popular series here is My Type of Music, a monthly...

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My Type of Music: Grace Jones, Primus, The Kooks, Ladytron, Steve Reich

It’s been a while since we had an episode of My Type of Music. Let’s dive into a fresh stack of albums and pore over their covers. The boundary-crossing German record label ECM (short for Edition of...

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My Type of Music: Tori Amos, Superheavy, Roots Manuva, Plaid, Mastodon

As I have a couple of things coming up I won’t unnecessarily waste any time with clever introductions. Here’s another selection of notable recent album covers. I don’t mind classic pared-down album...

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Album Covers Recreated In Clip-Art And Comic Sans

Joni Mitchell sang in Big Yellow Taxi “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” This concept is illustrated with wit and humour on the Tumblr log Clipart Covers....

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My Type of Music: Gary Numan, The Roots, The Black Keys, Jónsi, Tim McGraw,...

I am on the TGV to Paris as I write this, on my way to act as “Président du Jury”, Typography category, of the annual design competition organised by the Club des Directeurs Artistiques de Paris. I...

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Album Packages for Arcade Fire and Bruce Springsteen Win Grammy Awards

Yesterday, Sunday February 12, The Recording Academy presented the 54th Grammy Awards, honouring “artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without...

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Ben l’Oncle Soul Recreates Vintage Motown Look

I am a bit on the fence about nostalgic looking music videos – and any form of vintage design by extension. On the one hand our fascination with “authenticity” and referencing specific periods in...

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Blue Note Records Mock Covers Celebrate Barack Obama

The FontFeed loves Blue Note Records and Reid Miles, so it was with great pleasure that I discovered the Barack Obama’s Jazz website. It is fascinating to see how the figure of the first...

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My Type of Music: Holly Herndon, The Rolling Stones, Green Day, Led Zeppelin,...

Researching the album covers for this episode of My Type of Music once again reminded me how relatively difficult it is to find out who designed them. For ScreenFonts I almost always can find the...

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Jessica Hische Lettering Rendered In Cut Paper

It always seems magical when a piece of graphic design transcends the flat plane and enters the third dimension. The resulting object lends an additional legitimacy to the original piece, rejuvenating...

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Album Packages for Björk and Woody Guthrie Win Grammy Awards

Last weekend, on Sunday February 10, The Recording Academy presented the 55th Grammy Awards, honouring “artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry,...

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Stunning Artwork for John Mayer’s Born and Raised

This morning a message from Jacques Le Bailly, designer of my Favourite Typeface of 2012, led me to a just released video by British DP, director and film maker Danny Cooke. The short film documents...

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My Type of Music: April’s Fool Special

My Type of Music posts typically are a little harder to write. However some months it seems as if the stars in the typographical heavens align and too many albums with great covers are released. Maybe...

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Handwriting/Lettering Max Goldt’s L’Eglise des Crocodiles

Posting the process video for Kevin Tong’s gorgeous illustrated poster for Gravity in this month’s ScreenFonts reminded me of a similar, equally fascinating clip. It documents the making of the 12-inch...

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My Type of Music: Robbie Williams, Daughtry, Black Flag, Nick Cave & the Bad...

Happy new year to you all, and may the best day of 2013 equal the worst in 2014. The end of the old year / beginning of the new year inevitably spawns all kinds of Best Of-lists. I am ambivalent about...

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Album Packages for Reckless Kelly and Paul McCartney & Wings Win Grammy Awards

Yesterday The Recording Academy presented the 56th Grammy Awards, honouring “artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales...

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My Type of Music: Bruce Springsteen, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Mogwai, Angélique...

Congratulations to Shiva Nallaperumal, Johs Krejberg Haahr, Gerhard Großmann and David Wolske, the winners of this year’s Valentype for their excellent contributions. Now let’s return to our regular...

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My Type of Music: April’s Fool 2014 Special

I had been slipping a little when it comes to My Type of Music posts, so it feels good to be back on track, reviewing the covers for recent album releases on The FontFeed. Even though the concept of...

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My Type of Music Special: Fonts From The Flea Market

One of my favourite weekend treats is Fonts From The Flea Market, an ongoing typographic journey of discovery posted on the Twitter account of Swiss graphic design studio Büro Destruct. Lorenz “Lopetz”...

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Long Player Football Club Puts Iconic Players On Album Covers

’Twas the eve before FIFA World Cup, when all through the world, people were professing their love for the noble sport that is football (not soccer, my dear American friends, the players actually...

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