As my main area of interest is the crossroads where typography and pop culture meet, I was happy to discover this little (quite literally) book. The tagline of Tasty Stories perfectly describes the content – “Legendary Food Brands and Their Typefaces”. Belgian type designer and Reading graduate Joke Gossé tells the story of over twenty brands in the food industry through the letters that grace their logos, packaging and advertising, tracing some of them back to the infant days of commercial art.

Last Friday, 12 June 2015, 93 design studios in Berlin opened their doors between 7 and midnight for a night shift – “Nachtschicht” in German, the nickname of the 4th Berlin Design Night, organized by Create Berlin. For the third time, Monotype’s FontFont and TYPO Talks teams welcomed visitors to attend workshops, presentations and typographic experiments in their office at Bergmannstraße 102.

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Last Thursday night, June 4th, German calligrapher and typeface designer Hermann Zapf passed away in Darmstadt at the age of 96. He created more than 200 fonts, including the world-famous Palatino®, Aldus®, Optima®, ITC Zapf Chancery®, ITC Zapf Dingbats® and Zapfino® typefaces. Zapf was an early adopter and one of the first type designers to embrace text processing on the computer. His 1972 design Marconi Antique was one of the first fonts for computer typesetting. Hermann Zapf won many industry awards, amongst which the very first TDC Medal in 1967 and the very first SOTA Award in 2003. In March 2010, he received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

FF Mark® is back, but this time things are getting pretty heavy ...