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about type, design, printing, more type. I'm also: @kim_bentley kimbentley.com kibrly on flickr

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Bring your own! Screenprinting supply list, screenprinted. #workshop (Taken with Instagram)

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Of all the instances in which graphic communication is necessary to transcend language barriers, the Olympic Games are, if not the most important, probably the most visible. We take the little icons of swimmers and sprinters as a given aspect of Olympic design, but the pictograms were a...

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Wood type on an angle? Yup. (Taken with Instagram)

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Yup.

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Smileys, 1881 

Late 19th Century emoticons, via The Retronaut

PK Note: For a year, I was working on the Google Print project in Oxford, and one of the books we encountered (whose name I have completely forgotten) arrived in it’s own white box, featuring an average size book with an additional smaler one. The books were basically printshop humour of the time, early examples of text-based art, such as emoticon smilies and character decoration. It wasn’t suitable for digitalization as it was published on the cusp of the copyright window (no books during and after 1885 were processed), but it was a fantastic little discovery.

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1881 emoticons!

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We love the summer sunset colors - split fountain hot off the press. (Taken with Instagram)

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the queen: a pantone guide

“PANTONE and Leo Burnett London created this limited edition colour guide of the Queen’s ensembles in honour of her Diamond Jubilee. “

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The Vandercook 100 is here! We're thrilled to be included with so many other Vandy lovers! (Taken with Instagram)

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A delicious homage to Pantone and its (growing) heritage of color. 

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Next week, Radiolab is releasing a new hour-long episode all about colors. 

So to get you in that ROY G BIV mood, the Radiolab tumblr will be showering you with rainbow-hued posts all week long. 

Ready?

(This mouth-watering rainbow cake is from Whisk Kid.)

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Cannot wait!

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(via Scrabble Typography Edition - Josh Spear, Trendspotting)

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The type nerd in me really, really wants this:

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Yale University Card Catalog

by Ellen Su.

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Fill-in-the-blank sign. (Taken with instagram)

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A short vignette of a book being created.

For the Daily Telegraph. Shot, Directed & Edited by Glen Milner

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Beautiful, animated, live wind patterns by Hint.fm

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The press and its metal heart.

The messy lockup for the last color on our latest poster.

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thump, thump.

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Some badass lettering, with a broom.

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$150 reward...