Typography

Typography

"When used light and small, it's super precise and premium; in its big, fat, expressive italic form, it looks more bold and a bit weird," Tom explains. Overall the tone of voice is packed with wit and in-jokes, from its copywriting down to its new file name, .af - which apart from being on every file you export from the programme, is also used in myriad, tongue-in-cheek ways across merch, such as its "Sketchy.af" notebook.

There's a lot going on here. Through this weekend, there is a Behind-the-Screams Tour, where guests will face skeletons, parasites, bloodsuckers, and more from the collection. The newly renovated Wilson Family Nature Lab is opened in mid-October with lots of hands-on learning. Coming up on Nov. 22, there is a one-night only Welcome Winter Night, with two baby reindeer (and a naming contest), magic shows, and lots of other activities.

Working with F37's Ryan Williamson on the production of the font, the typeface spans three eras of Harriet's writing life: ages four, 13 and 30 years old. The glyphs are an amalgamation of her diary scribblings, which, when included in the typeface, become a an archival project of not only Harriet's stylistic habits but also of the time of writing - there's no hashtags or @'s to be found in thes early texts.

"It's an amazing idea, and it's surprising that it hasn't knowingly been done before. "Tape felt like the perfect tool to disrupt typographic tradition. It's fast, tactile, and unruly," says Varanda. "What fascinated me most was how tape could act as both a restriction and a liberation. It forces letterforms into sharp edges, but in the hands of 27 participants, it created shapes that I could never have imagined alone."

This one performance was the creative spark that would ignite a fire in Jacek. He knew right away that he should use design to transform his newspaper from boring text into performance art. Just like a Cirque du Soleil performance. Much like when Einstein was a child and received a magnetic compass as a gift, sparking his lifelong fascination with the invisible forces of nature.

No matter what you're designing for - maybe it's a website? A brand? A magazine, perhaps? - typographic hierarchy is your foundation, your building blocks. It's what guides your reader through your website, brand or book. It tells them what to look at first, what to skim, and what to remember. Done right, it's seamless. Done wrong, it can be extremely confusing.In short, hierarchy is how you visually structure information. Here's how to do it well.

At September's Nicer Tuesdays event in London, Robin Howie from Fieldwork Facility talks about the design studio's biggest client yet, the V&A East Storehouse.

This week it's the 70th birthday of the Guinness Book of Records, that gloriously bonkers compendium of human achievement that celebrates the people who can stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth, balance the most spoons on their body, and hula hoop underwater for the longest time. It features everything from standard athletic victories to "most high fives in 30 seconds" and "fastest time to make a pasta necklace."

Those tedious email exchanges and endless Zoom calls don't have to be boring. Thanks to Dirk McGirk, every work task can double as a mini cocktail party-just don't get too dishy. The designer was inspired by a font resembling tiny cubes of Swiss to create a "mechanical cheese board," a collection of 104 keycaps shaped like small bites of fromage, complete with knives, a bottle of wine, jam, and even a tiny mouse.

Let's start things off with a quick animation tip that pairs perfectly with layered 3D text. Sometimes, we want to rotate the element without actually changing the orientation of the text so it stays readable. The trick here is to combine multiple rotations across two axes. First, rotate the text on the z-axis. Then, add a tilt on the x-axis. Finally, rotate the text back on the z-axis.

Douglas Hofstadter is possibly best known for coining the term ambigram in 1983. An ambigram can be read in more than one way, commonly exhibiting left-right mirror symmetry or 180-degree rotational symmetry.