After 18 months of work, we’re truly proud to launch the website for Commercial Type, a new type foundry conceived by Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz. We don’t like playing favorites with our kids, but this one is close to our hearts. Check it out and buy fonts! Thank you Brana, Christian, Abi, and Berton for all your hard work and Kai for your support.

To celebrate, we splurged on a really nice bottle of champagne. A new website launch tradition?

Who are we kidding, websites are never ever done. Photo by Chad.

Our old friend Roman from Space 1026 (who expertly printed the Ohne Titel invitations we did last summer) was kind enough to silkscreen a small edition of these 4-color prints of the illustration we did for the New York Times Magazine back in September. They’re 13″ x 15″ and $55. If you’re interested in buying one, get in touch.

We designed a Boxing Day themed puzzle for the Op-Ed page. Check it out today (they’re tougher than they look!).

As promised, here are some of our favorite moments from the studio’s west coast tour. Jump on in… Read more »

So, being the dutiful new (been working at Rumors for a month now… hi! I’m Ho-Mui.) intern, I went to support Holly at Fan Letter last night at The Cooper Union. It was delightful.

Y – yay, hollyg!!! go womyn.

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If you’re in the New York City area on Tuesday evening, we hope you can join us at Fan Letter NYC. The event is being held in conjunction with the book launch of Lettering & Type, by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals of Post Typography. Twenty-six local, national, and internationally-based designers and artists give a two-minute ode to an alphabet letter or typographic character, and we’ll be talking about the letter Y.

Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
The Herb Lubalin Study Center Gallery at The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
Reception and book signing at 7:00, Fan Letter begins at 7:45.
This event is free and open to the public.
More info here.
Hope to see you there!

We’re excited to be presenting our work at a few colleges in California over the next week. We hope you can join us at either of our talks:

Thurs. Nov. 5th at 7pm
California College of the Arts
5212 Broadway, Oakland
Update: We had the location wrong! Its at the San Francisco campus, Graduate Building 1111 8th St.

Mon. Nov. 9th at 7pm
CalArts  Graphic Design Visiting Artist Lecture Series
24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia

Many thanks to Jon Sueda from CCA and Caroline Park from CalArts! We’ll also be giving a workshop at Otis College of Art and Design on Wednesday—thanks to Erin Hauber.

The Center for Architecture’s New York Now exhibition, for which we were the exhibition designers, has gone up! See it now in the bowels of the West 4th St subway stop, where both main ramps have been taken over with images of just-finished and currently-underway buildings in New York City.

New York Now is set in Stag Sans, by our good friend Christian Schwartz. You’ll be able to buy it (and many more of our favorite fonts) online soon, very soon. Finally, very special thanks to Sam Grey and Zack Seuberling who toiled away underground taking measurements. When asked by the police why they were taking notes on the subway system, these two charmers simply smiled and waved their clipboards, thus demonstrating they had no foul intent. Well done!

We wish our summer intern Zack Seuberling best of luck with future endeavors. Zack, we’ve learned a lot from you, and we hoped you’ve learned something from us.

Among Zack’s Words of Wit and Wisdom:
“Rule #1: Stay Positive”—truer now than ever.
“Hot dogs certainly aren’t for everybody”—fact, not fiction.
“No blood, no foul— that’s all you need to know to play street ball”—no explanation necessary.

A toast to you, Zack, the man, the legend. We may have forced you to blog and join Twitter, but as you put it yesterday, “who knew after three months in New York I’d been eating dinner with Karel Martens and singing karaoke with Project Projects?” Future interns, you’ve got some pretty big shoes to fill.

James Gaddy wrote a nice little piece about the website we’ve been working on for Commercial Type In the October issue of Print. Sneak preview of the site below!