Did you know TNW’s Couch Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full ‘Sprint’ program here. It’s easy to take books and other printed material ...

Let’s face it, fonts and typefaces have officially become a mainstream obsession. In our current design-centric culture, terms like sans-serif, Helvetica, and — heaven forbid — Comic Sans have ...

To highlight a university’s prototyping prowess, the London studio Johnson Banks designed a 3-D alphabet showcasing a century’s worth of typefaces. Rapid prototyping has quickly become the darling ...

Graphic design student Ben Barrett-Forrest couldn’t find any educational type videos he liked, so he took the matter into his own hands (very literally). The history of typography began with a German ...

If you’re not sure of the differences between serifs, old type, modern, transitional and geometric fonts, then you may be having some awkward conversations with your designer. Here’s a crash course in ...

Do you like type? Did you go see the movie Helvetica and break out in tears of joyful satisfaction at the end credits? Do you have a graphic designer cousin who taught you what sans serif meant, and ...

A short, educational animation about the history of fonts and typography. In a paper cutout stop-motion style, it begins with Gutenberg's creation of the first typeface, travels through the ...