The Society for News Design

Tangents

• When Letraset Was King
  For serious graphic designers, Letraset was the Adobe of the Seventies. Here’s a look at two of the company’s catalogs from 1970 and 1973.
• #realtalk from your editor
  Edited by Ann Friedman.
• Good Fucking Design Advice
  Clients got you down? Looking for motivation to continue on? Complete your life with one of our products.
• I Am the One Who Clicks Banner Ads.
  It is I who click the banner ads. While you check the weather, I find out why California dermatologists hate the one weird skin care secret discovered by a stay-at-home mom.
• The design of a signage typeface | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog
  The story begins in 2006 with a trip down Route 66. Day in, day out, I looked at U.S. traffic signs that were either set in the old, somewhat clumsy “FHWA font series” or the new Clearview HWY typeface. Approaching the signs, I would often test myself: which typeface works best from a distance, and which of its features or details might be responsible for its performance.
• Sapping Attention: Visualizing Ocean Shipping
• On (Design) Bullshit
  Calling bullshit on a designer, then, stings all the more because it contains an element of accuracy. ... Every once in a while, however, there is satisfaction to be had when design bullshit attains the level of art.
• Field Notes Memo Archive
  Field Notes owe their existence to a tradition of promotional memo books distributed to American farmers over the last hundred years by seed, tractor, and other agricultural companies. Co-founder Aaron Draplin has been collecting these for years, “rescuing them” from obscurity.
• Worth a Thousand Words: Inside the 'NYT' Graphics Department
  Words are not enough—but in some ways, they're more important than ever. That's the main takeaway from this Gestalten TV profile of the graphics department at The New York Times.
• 'Businessweek' tag-team talks about how their subjects are boring (visually) and how they try to make them not be | Capital New York
  As far as magazine redesigns go, there hasn't been one as buzzy or well-received over the past few years as Businessweek's.
• Audio: The 15 Awesome SXSW Interactive Panels Every Journalist Should Listen To - Phlog
  If you're a journalist in the trenches, chances are you're too busy and too poor to attend (and your publisher is too poor to send you to) SXSW Interactive, the annual to-do where all the smart, well-funded bastards go to interact with other smart, well-funded bastards who can afford to think for five minutes about how to get us all out of this goddamn mess we're in. 
• Famous Photogs Pose With Their Most Iconic Images
  Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.

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