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Last week Apples Former Chief Design Officer Jony Ive Reflected on the Tenth Anniversary of Steve Jobs Passing and more. Today a report by Wallpaper revealed that Jony Ive’s LoveFrom unveiled official website with an opening statement. The website is far from complete

LoveFrom, the design firm co-founded in 2019 by Apple's former design chief Jony Ive and fellow designer Marc Newson, this week unveiled its...

LoveFrom.com reveals the creative collective’s visual identity, provides a statement of purpose, and pays gentle homage to Apple’s Steve Jobs

May 25, 2021 8:43 am “This is great but make it more feminine.” When it comes to fonts, type designer Marie Boulanger says she has heard comments like this “countless times” from clients. “If you think about it from a design point of view, that word contains nothing that designers can use,” Boulanger says. “I think it’s important to examine your bias and ask why you’re saying masculine or feminine and the qualities you’re attaching to gender that you need to express.” Th...

The 1762 Baskerville Bible. (Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Printing, Haverhill.) As a public service, 97.9 WHAV presents Community Spotlight at no charge for the benefit of Greater Haverhill nonprofit organizations. To submit news of events, fundraising appeals and other community calendar announcements, Click image. Haverhill’s Museum of Printing is displaying many rare Bibles from its collection through April 30. The Museum has one leaf from every Bible printed in Colonial America, i...

Good for Futura-ists The Futura typeface celebrated its 90th birthday this year and Futura: The Typeface, a “stunning examination of one of the most popular typefaces ever created”, has been published in homage. Inspired by simple geometric forms, designer Paul Renner created Futura in 1927 as a clean-lined, modern take on classical typefaces and it was immediately popular. The book traces the face’s story from its Bauhaus origins through to its appearance on the moon, for the text of a p...

Today is the 28th day of 2021. There are 337 days left in the year.

Friday, December 18, 2020 Brits may not have been first off the mark in print, in comparison with some of our neighbours, but their contribution to the craft has nevertheless been great The printing industry is not always good at honouring its past: the inventions, processes, products or the people. That is a pity because it is the men and women of the past that have brought the industry to where it is today, just as it is the individuals of today who will shape the printing ind...